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- Sep 30, 2026
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2 women were brutally killed long ago in Macomb County. Why their case is now being reopened (opens the original)
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WARREN, Mich. – For 45 years, the family of Lisa Schwartzkopf believes someone has lived with a secret. Someone knows what happened inside a Warren home in the early morning hours of June 12, 1981, when two young women were brutally killed. But there’s another problem: police back in 1988 mistakenly destroyed several pieces of evidence because of what the report called “the misconception that the complaint involved a suicide.” “We don’t really have a good reason why it was destroyed,” Warren Pol
Warren double homicide from 1981 reopened, but evidence was destroyed (opens the original)
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WARREN, Mich. – For 45 years, the family of Lisa Schwartzkopf believes someone has lived with a secret. Someone knows what happened inside a Warren home in the early morning hours of June 12, 1981, when two young women were brutally killed. But there’s another problem: police back in 1988 mistakenly destroyed several pieces of evidence because of what the report called “the misconception that the complaint involved a suicide.” “We don’t really have a good reason why it was destroyed,” Warren Pol
Jury awards nearly $900 million after children hurt in crash at Auburn Hills test track (opens the original)
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AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – A jury has awarded roughly $897 million to a family of a child severely injured when a high-speed vehicle crashed into a guardrail during a 2023 field trip at a test track in Auburn Hills. The verdict came more than three years after what was supposed to be a fun and educational summer STEM program trip became a life-altering tragedy for two families. Elijah Gibson, 8 at the time, and Lavell McGee, 10 at the time, suffered “life-altering injuries,” according to the families
Eastpointe mom brought fake son to appointment to use Social Security benefits for herself, feds say (opens the original)
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DETROIT – A Detroit-area mother allegedly kept nearly $30,000 in Social Security benefits intended for her son -- even bringing an imposter to a medical appointment to keep the money coming in, according to a federal criminal complaint. Keshaune Pace, a.k.a. Keshaune Jenkins of Eastpointe, is accused of theft of government funds and Social Security representative payee fraud. The complaint filed Sept. 18 covered the period from July 2021 through October 2024. Pace began receiving Social Security
Birmingham man beaten, tased by police officers gets $675K settlement (opens the original)
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BIRMINGHAM, Mich. – A federal civil rights lawsuit accusing Birmingham police officers of forcing their way into a home, beating a man, and prosecuting him without probable cause has ended in a settlement of over half a million for a former Birmingham resident. “I am relatively happy with the outcome, but I still never got to really have my day in court,” the man said. “I never really got to hear from these officers; they never really had to take responsibility for it.” The lawsuit alleged seven
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