COREY WILLIAMS

FILE - Lawyer Kenneth Chesebro is sworn in during a plea deal hearing, Oct. 20, 2023, at the Fulton County Courthouse in Atlanta. A lawsuit settlement offers new details about how two attorneys for former President Donald Trump orchestrated a plan for fake electors to file paperwork falsely saying the Republican won Wisconsin in a strategy to overturn Democrat Joe Biden’s 2020 victory there and in other swing states. The agreement settles a civil lawsuit filed by Democrats against the attorneys and the fake electors. (Alyssa Pointer/Pool Photo via AP, File)
Takeaways from the Wisconsin 2020 fake electors lawsuit settlement
More than 1,400 pages of emails, text messages and other documents released Monday reveal details of a strategy by Republican operatives tied to then-President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory in Wisconsin.
 
This image from a body camera provided by the Carol Stream Police Dept. shows the fatal shooting of a 30-year-old man inside his apartment. Isaac Goodlow III died at a hospital after he was shot Feb. 3 in Carol Stream, about 34 miles (55 kilometers) west of Chicago. (Carol Stream Police Dept. via AP)
Police in suburban Chicago release body-worn camera footage of fatal shooting of man in his bedroom
A police department in suburban Chicago has released officer body camera footage of the fatal shooting of a 30-year-old man inside his apartment.
 
FILE - This combo image shows President Joe Biden, left, Jan. 5, 2024, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, right, Jan. 19, 2024. (AP Photo, File)
Trump and Biden won Michigan. But ‘uncommitted’ votes demanded attention
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have won the Michigan primaries, further solidifying the all-but-certain rematch between the two men.
 
FILE - Dr. Claude Tiller Jr. speaks at the Aging & Disability Resource Center of Brown County on July 18, 2023, in Green Bay, Wis. The Green Bay school district on Wednesday, Feb, 21, 2024, released the recording of its first Black superintendent's appearance on an Atlanta radio show in which he made blunt comments about race relations, criticized the community and derided one of the district's principals. Tiller Jr. resigned on Saturday after a closed-door meeting with school board members. (Seeger Gray/The Green Bay Press-Gazette via AP, File)
Former Black schools leader radio interview brings focus on race issues in Green Bay
Members of Green Bay’s African American community say the city’s first Black schools superintendent could have had a better approach to an interview where his comments ultimately prompted his resignation.
 
FILE - A protester waves a Trump flag during rally organized by a group called Election Integrity Fund and Force at the Michigan State Capitol, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, in Lansing, Mich. A fake Certificate of Votes was submitted to the U.S. Senate following Michigan’s 2020 presidential election, an official testified Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024, during a preliminary hearing for six people facing forgery and other charges for allegedly serving as false electors. (Jake May/The Flint Journal via AP, File)
Republican Michigan elector testifies he never intended to make false public record
A Michigan Republican accused of participating in a fake elector plot after the 2020 presidential election has testified that he did not know how the electoral process worked and never intended to make a false public record.
 
FILE - A protester waves a Trump flag during rally organized by a group called Election Integrity Fund and Force at the Michigan State Capitol, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, in Lansing, Mich. A fake Certificate of Votes was submitted to the U.S. Senate following Michigan’s 2020 presidential election, an official testified Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2024, during a preliminary hearing for six people facing forgery and other charges for allegedly serving as false electors. (Jake May/The Flint Journal via AP, File)
Fake Michigan Certificate of Votes mailed to U.S. Senate after 2020 presidential vote, official says
An official says a fake Certificate of Votes was submitted to the U.S. Senate following Michigan’s 2020 presidential election. Dan Schwager served in 2020-2021 as general counsel to the secretary of the Senate.
 
Amana Ali joins about three dozen people protesting Israel's attacks in Gaza, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024 in Dearborn, Mich. The protesters gathered hoping to be heard by members of the Biden White House who were scheduled to meet in suburban Detroit with Muslim and Arab American leaders. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Biden aides meet in Michigan with Arab American and Muslim leaders, aiming to mend political ties
Biden administration officials are meeting with Arab American and Muslim leaders in Michigan. It’s part of an effort to mend ties with a community that has an important role in deciding whether President Joe Biden can hold on to a crucial swing state in the 2024 election.
 
Jennifer Crumbley walks into the Oakland County courtroom of Judge Cheryl Matthews before being found guilty on four counts of involuntary manslaughter on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024 in Pontiac, Mich. Prosecutors say Crumbley was grossly negligent when she failed to tell Oxford High School that the family had guns, including a 9 mm handgun that her son, Ethan Crumbley, used at a shooting range on the weekend before the Nov. 30, 2021, attack. (Mandi Wright/Detroit Free Press via AP, Pool)
Jury finds Jennifer Crumbley, the Michigan school shooter’s mother, guilty of manslaughter
A Michigan jury has found a school shooter’s mother guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of four students in 2021.
 
Brian Chaney stands near the area, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024, in Keego Harbor, Mich., where he was arrested. The officer told Chaney he thought Chaney was breaking into cars and cuffed him. Chaney, who is Black, asked for a supervisor. The white officer told pointed to another officer from a different police department and told Chaney he was the supervisor. The Keego Harbor chief said in a deposition in a lawsuit Chaney filed that it's ok for his officers to lie when they are not under oath. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Michigan case offers an example of how public trust suffers when police officers lie
A white officer in suburban Detroit lied to a Black pedestrian by identifying an officer from another force as his supervisor during a 2021 police stop.
 
FILE - This Dec. 13, 2023, booking photo provided by the Detroit Police Department shows Michael Jackson-Bolanos. Jackson-Bolanos, the man accused of slaying Samantha Woll, a Detroit synagogue leader whose body was found in October 2023 outside her home, will face trial, a judge ordered Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. (Detroit Police Department via AP, File)
Man ordered to stand trial in slaying of Detroit synagogue leader
A man has been ordered to stand trial in the slaying of a Detroit synagogue leader whose body was found in October outside her home.
 
FILE - Heather Mack from Chicago, Ill., stands inside a cell before a trial in Bali, Indonesia, Wednesday, March 11, 2015. Mack, who pleaded guilty to helping kill her own mother and stuffing the body in a suitcase during a luxury vacation in Bali was sentenced by a federal judge, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, to 26 years in prison. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati, File)
Prosecutors seek 28-year sentence for Heather Mack in mom’s Bali slaying, stuffing into suitcase
Federal prosecutors in Chicago are recommending a 28-year prison sentence for an American woman who pleaded guilty to helping kill her mother and stuffing the body in a suitcase during a vacation at a Bali resort nearly a decade ago.
 
FILE - Kristina Karamo speaks to Michigan Republican Party delegates on Feb. 18, 2023, in Lansing, Mich. Michigan Republicans are planning to meet Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024, and discuss removing Michigan GOP Chairwoman Kristina Karamo. (AP Photo/Joey Cappelletti, File)
Michigan Republicans vote to remove election denier, chair Karamo, who promises not to accept result
Michigan Republicans have voted to remove election denier and state GOP Chairwoman Kristina Karamo during a meeting after many of the party’s leaders called for her resignation following a year of leadership plagued by debt and infighting.
 
This undated image provided by the Michigan Department of Corrections shows Garry Dean Artman. Authorities in western Michigan are looking into missing persons cases and unsolved homicides after speaking with Artman, a convicted murderer and long-haul truck driver who died last week in his hospital bed. Kent County sheriff's detectives interviewed Artman on three occasions before he died Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023, at a state Corrections health facility in Jackson, Mich. (Michigan Department of Corrections via AP)
Michigan detectives interview convicted murderer before his death, looking into unsolved slayings
Authorities in western Michigan are looking into missing persons cases and unsolved homicides after speaking with a convicted murderer with terminal lung cancer who died recently. Kent County sheriff’s Lt.
 
FILE - Former President Donald Trump listens as he speaks with reporters while in flight on his plane after a campaign rally at Waco Regional Airport, in Waco, Texas, March 25, 2023, while en route to West Palm Beach, Fla. Trump is facing criticism for repeatedly harnessing rhetoric once used by Adolf Hitler to argue that immigrants entering the U.S. illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country. Trump insists he had no idea that one of the world’s most reviled and infamous figures once used similar words. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
Michigan Supreme Court will keep Trump on 2024 primary ballot
Michigan’s Supreme Court is keeping former President Donald Trump on the state’s primary election ballot. The court said Wednesday it will not hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling from groups seeking to keep Trump from appearing on the ballot.
 
Darien Harris walks towards his wife's vehicle outside Cook County Jail after prosecutors dropped charges on Harris for a fatal shooting in 2011 in a Woodlawn gas station he was convicted for and was serving a 76 year long sentence, Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, Cook County, Ill. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)
Chicago man exonerated in 2011 murder case where legally blind eyewitness gave testimony
A Chicago man who was exonerated of murder has been released from prison after more than 12 years. Darien Harris was convicted in part on the testimony of an eyewitness who was legally blind.
 
Former Michigan GOP spokesperson testifies fake elector defendants were misled
A former communications director for the Michigan GOP says that he believes an attorney for then-President Donald Trump’s campaign “took advantage” of some of the 15 Republicans who face charges including forgery for allegedly serving as false electors.
 
This image provided by Nathan Johnson shows military barracks in Goose Bay, Canada, on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, where passengers aboard a Delta Air Lines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit spent the night after the plane was forced to land due to a mechanical issue. (Nathan Johnson via AP)
Passengers lodge in military barracks after Amsterdam to Detroit flight is forced to land in Canada
Passengers aboard a Delta Air Lines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit spent the night in a military barracks in eastern Canada after the plane was forced to land because of a mechanical issue.
 
FILE - Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel speaks during a news conference Sept. 19, 2022, outside of the Genesee County Sheriff's Office in Flint, Mich. Three Chilean nationals have been arrested in connection with a series of burglaries of mansions and other high-end homes in suburban Detroit and across Michigan. The charges were announced Monday, Dec. 11, 2023, by Nessel, who said the three are suspected in eight break-ins after they arrived in the Detroit area on a Feb. 1 flight from Los Angeles. (Jake May/The Flint Journal via AP, File)
3 Chilean nationals accused of burglarizing high-end Michigan homes
Three Chilean nationals have been arrested in connection with a series of burglaries of mansions and other high-end homes in suburban Detroit and across Michigan.
 
Ethan Crumbley sits in court listening to victim impact statements, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, in Pontiac, Mich. Parents of students killed at Michigan's Oxford High School described the anguish of losing their children Friday as a judge considered whether a teenager will serve a life sentence for a mass shooting in 2021. Crumbley, 17, could be locked up with no chance for parole for killing four fellow students and wounding others. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, Pool)
Michigan teen gets life in prison for Oxford High School attack
A teenager has been sentenced to life in prison for killing four students, wounding more and terrorizing Michigan’s Oxford High School in 2021.
 
An electric van drives past a visible in-road wireless charging coil to be installed in a street in Detroit, Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023. A demonstration of the first electric vehicle charging road in the U.S. took place Wednesday on a quarter-mile stretch of a Motor City street. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)
New technology installed beneath Detroit street can charge electric vehicles as they drive
Crews have installed what’s billed as the nation’s first wireless-charging public roadway for electric vehicles beneath a street west of downtown Detroit.
 
Group asks Michigan Supreme Court to hear an appeal of a ruling in Trump ballot case
Attorneys for a group of Michigan activists are asking the state Supreme Court to hear an appeal of a lower court’s ruling that would allow former President Donald Trump’s name on the state’s presidential primary ballot.
 
Detroit officer to stand trial after photojournalists were shot with pellets during a 2020 protest
A Detroit police corporal accused of shooting three photojournalists with rubber pellets while they covered protests against police brutality has been ordered to stand trial.
 
Former President Donald Trump greets the crowd at a campaign rally Saturday, Nov. 11, 2023, in Claremont, N.H. (AP Photo/Reba Saldanha)
Michigan judge says Trump can stay on primary ballot, rejecting challenge under insurrection clause
A Michigan judge has ruled that former President Donald Trump will remain on the state’s primary ballot.
 
FILE - Former President Donald Trump waits to take the witness stand during his civil fraud trial at New York Supreme Court, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023, in New York. A judge in Michigan is expected to hear arguments as to whether or not Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has the authority to keep Trump’s name off any state ballot for president. Activists are suing Benson in the Michigan Court of Claims to force her to keep Trump’s name off ballots.(Brendan McDermid/Pool Photo via AP)
Can Michigan activists keep Trump off the ballot? A judge heard arguments today
A judge in Michigan has heard arguments Thursday on whether Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson has the authority to keep Donald Trump’s name off state ballots for president.
 
Yahya Alarayshi, center, and his wife Lisa Alarayshi, left, of Canton, Mich., speak about the safe return of his parents, Zakaria Alarayshi and Laila Alarayshi, from Gaza, during a press conference at the Arab American Civil Rights League office, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, in Dearborn, Mich. (Clarence Tabb Jr./Detroit News via AP)
Michigan couple back from Gaza, recall fear and desperation of being trapped amid war
A Michigan man recounted the fear and desperation he and his wife faced while trying to flee Gaza amid the war between Israel and Hamas.
 
Tracy Brooks, an auto worker retiree is interviewed as she shows off vintage photos of her family, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, in Romulus, Mich. She and her father, and grandfather and daughter all worked on assembly lines for one or more of Detroit's automakers. "We told Britney Johnson (Brooks' daughter), she's representing our family," Brooks jokes when speaking of her daughter who is among tens of thousands of the union's Ford, General Motors and Stellantis employees who have walked off the job since the strike started Sept. 15. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Some striking UAW members carry family legacies, Black middle-class future along with picket signs
Britney Johnson is among the thousands of Ford Motor Co. workers who went on strike to force the automaker to improve pay for all. But she carried more than a picket sign outside Ford’s Wayne Assembly plant west of Detroit.
 
FILE - United Auto Workers members walk the picket line during a strike at the Stellantis Sterling Heights Assembly Plant, in Sterling Heights, Mich., Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. Jeep maker Stellantis has reached a tentative contract agreement with the United Auto Workers union that follows a template set earlier this week by Ford, two people with knowledge of the negotiations said Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)
UAW and Stellantis reach tentative contract deal as union adds strike at Tennessee GM factory
Jeep maker Stellantis reached a tentative contract agreement with the United Auto Workers union on Saturday as it escalated strikes against General Motors by adding a plant in Tennessee.
 
FILE - Jacksonville Jaguars safety Sergio Brown speaks during an NFL event for kids, July 15, 2015, in south London. The former NFL player has been arrested in southern California nearly a month after the body of his 73-year-old mother was found behind her suburban Chicago home. San Diego County Jail records show Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023, that Brown, 35, was booked into the facility Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 10, following a “fugitive arrest.” (AP Photo/Matt Dunham, File)
Ex-NFL player Sergio Brown arrested in Southern California in connection to mother’s slaying
Authorities say former NFL player Sergio Brown has been arrested in Southern California nearly a month after the body of his 73-year-old mother was found behind her suburban Chicago home.
 
Man who sought to expose sexual predators fatally shot during argument in Detroit-area restaurant
A 40-year-old Detroit-area man who posed as a 15-year-old girl on social media to identify alleged sexual predators has been fatally shot during an argument in a restaurant.
 
From left, relatives of Sarah Evans and Detroit Deputy Mayor Todd Bettison view 7-foot-tall granite monument commemorating Evans and her friend, Viola Liuzzo on Thursday, Sept. 28, 2023 at Viola Liuzzo Park in northwest Detroit. Liuzzo was a white mother who was slain in Alabama while shuttling demonstrators after the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march. (AP Photo/Corey Williams)
Monument honoring slain civil rights activist Viola Liuzzo and friend is unveiled in Detroit park
A monument has been unveiled in Detroit that commemorates a white mother slain while doing civil rights work in Alabama in 1965 and the Black friend who helped raise her children after her death.
 
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