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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Erika Erickson, Jason Wilger

    ‘They’re not all monsters’: Child sexual abuse prevention experts visit Detroit, discuss early intervention (opens the original)

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    DETROIT — Child sexual abuse can be prevented, according to experts, but say more education, resources, and early intervention are needed to stop harm before it happens. Elizabeth Letourneau, PhD., the Moore Family Professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, is bringing that message to Detroit this week for the 45th annual conference of the Association for the Treatment and Prevention of Sexual Abuse, or ATSA. Letourneau said one of the biggest barriers to prevention is the bel

  2. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Erika Erickson

    Vista Maria, embroiled in abuse lawsuit, awarded VA grant to support veteran housing (opens the original)

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    DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. — Vista Maria, an all-girls facility in Dearborn Heights, and currently facing a lawsuit, has secured a Per Diem Grant from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, according to the VA’s Grant and Per Diem award listings. The grant provides funding “in the form of per diem payments to reimburse grantees for the cost of care provided to Veterans in transitional supportive housing.” The VA announced Sept. 14 that it was awarding $1.17 billion in grants to 680 organizations

  3. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Erika Erickson, Jeff Jewell, Kayla Clarke

    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

  4. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Erika Erickson, Jeff Jewell, Kayla Clarke

    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

  5. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Erika Erickson, Joel Deaner

    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

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