Emergency ambulance contracts in limbo, risking Detroit response time delay
DFD Deputy Chief Derek Hillman said that an impact would be felt “across the board” for delays on the city’s most urgent emergency calls.
Detroiter rescues 2 neighbors from fire, doing ‘what God told me’
White was honored with a Spirit of Detroit award by District 7 City Council Member Denzel McCampbell for his heroic actions.
Parents say Detroit schools fail to complete special ed evaluations on time. Here is what the data shows.
Superintendent Nikolai Vitti said the district has improved its number of on-time evaluations, but it needs to continue to establish a “no-excuse culture” around evaluation times.
Groups push ‘dignity in death’ for Michigan’s unclaimed dead
As funeral costs rise, more dead people are going unclaimed in parts of Michigan. In Detroit, students at Wayne State are stepping up to honor them when no one else does.
Michigan tests expanding free ‘pre-K for all’ to home child-care providers
A new program tests no-cost pre-K in home child care settings. Up until now, students had to attend a school or child care center to qualify for the free option.
Detroit’s use of facial recognition for violent crime probes is down. Here’s why
Only one of the nine facial recognition searches Detroit police conducted last year produced an investigative lead, a BOPC report shows.
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