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Kym Worthy wrote to the county auditor Willie Mayo that information he supplied her led to an investigation of possible fraud in the project.
The election this November is one of the most important elections we have ever had in our city. Who we choose for mayor and for city council will set the tone for where we go from here. So, those running need to lose the rhetoric about the bankruptcy and the emergency manager and concentrate their campaigns on Detroit's future. What is the plan to keep our city's transformation alive during and after the bankruptcy and Kevyn Orr is gone? What's the new business model for Detroit? What's the new social model for Detroit? How will you work with the business community to create and deliver those new models? How will you work with the neighborhoods to create and deliver those new businesses and social models? How will you work with law enforcement to ensure our city is safe and secure? To earn their seats these candidates must offer solutions … solutions followed by quick actions. They must be committed to collaboration with the region, the neighborhoods and the business community. Businesses in Detroit are committed to its transformation. They must know city government is committed to working with them. We won't always agree on the solutions but we all must be at the table. One of the major solutions that must be found quickly is for safety and security. Our new police chief James Craig is quickly taking steps to do just that. First he's clearing up some major problemswith how Detroit's numbers are reported. Those numbers have been splashed over front pages everywhere. Reports say it takes an average of 58 minutes for officers to respond to life-threatening emergencies and that homicide investigators solve only 11 percent of the city's murders. The numbers are flawed. Response time has been counted from the time the 911 call is placed. Most other law enforcement agencies start the clock after the 911 operator assigns the call to an officer since dispatchers can spend several minutes getting the information from the caller. The Chief changed that. Now the clock starts when the dispatcher assigns the run to an officer. In addition, many non-life-threatening calls such as break-ins, burglar alarms and other crimes with no immediate life-threatening danger were classified as emergencies. According to the Chief, half of all calls were classified as emergencies. A close examination of real "life-threatening emergency" calls showed it took officers an average of 15 minutes to respond. The Chief wants that to drop to 7-8 minutes. As far as homicides go, the Chief says the department has closed about 35 percent of the cases. That's not great and a lot of work has to be done, but it's not 11 percent. I don't know about you but I'm very tired of having Detroit, its inability to collaborate and its police force bashed in the national and international media and used as a punch line on late night TV. Let's get the right numbers out there and let's show the world Detroit knows how to collaborate.
The Wayne County Board of Canvassers decided not to certify the city's mayoral primary election following questions about the way ballots were counted.
Drivers on the city's west side probably noticed a lot of smoke Tuesday afternoon coming from an apparent junkyard fire near the Lodge and Wyoming freeways.
There are more than 20,000 Detroit city retirees whose pensions hang in the balance as the city moves through bankruptcy.
"As the abandoned properties come down, property values will go up, and crime will go down," the governor said.
The 2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra have become the first pickup trucks to get five star rankings in the new, tougher crash tests done by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
A new winner has been declared in the primary election for mayor of Detroit.
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Kent County Tuesday announced newly expanded public access to the county's Geographic Information System, or GIS.
DTE Gas, a subsidiary of Detroit-based DTE Energy Co., announced Tuesday that it is now providing pipeline-quality natural gas that was converted from landfill gas to its residential customers as part of its commitment to renewable energy.
Fire officials are investigating after a man was injured in an Ann Arbor house explosion Monday morning. CBS News Detroit's Jordan Burrows gives the latest updates from the scene.
The Michigan State Spartans celebrated a weekend of commencement ceremonies.
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The City of Detroit's Easter Fun Fest returns to provide families an opportunity to not only get outside and be active, but ring in the holiday with some fun.
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Soon after a positive test, Dorfman found himself hospitalized, on a ventilator and in a medically induced coma.
It has been 12 days since anyone has seen Armani Kelly, Montoya Givens and Dante Wicker. Now, a Facebook live video conversation has surfaced where Kelly is seen talking with three men about coming to Detroit only two days before he went missing.
A Plymouth man's cancer diagnosis hit the reset button on how he lived his life. Since then, he and his family have been giving back to others facing the same struggles.
The Sphinx organization gives a platform to Black and Latinx performers of all ages.