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Police said Wednesday a person of interest wanted in connection with a hit-and-run crash that killed a 6-year-old girl Sunday is now in custody.

Small was the mother of two young children. She was gunned down at her place of work on what was supposed to be her day off. A Michigan driver reached speeds of nearly mph and cut through a corn field during a police chase that ended when he crashed into a water-filled drainage ditch and jumped into a pond, officials said.

Two teenagers were robbed Wednesday while walking to school in Detroit, police said. Two people were taken into custody after a driver tried to hit a Michigan State Police trooper and then led a long high-speed chase through Wayne and Macomb counties, authorities said.

Police have identified a person of interest in a hit-and-run that killed a 6-year-old girl in Dearborn. Police believe an organized theft ring has been working to steal everything from generators to landscaping equipment from Menards stores across Metro Detroit. A woman was killed and another was injured when gunshots were fired from a car that had been following them on the road in Pontiac, according to police. A man tried to sexually assault a year-old woman while she was jogging at a Port Huron park, police said.

The driver told police that he was traveling northbound with the flow of traffic when he claimed she walked in front of his vehicle. The defense rested its case Thursday at the murder trial of Kyle Rittenhouse, setting the stage for closing arguments in the shootings that left Americans divided over whether he was a patriot taking a stand against lawlessness or a vigilante. A Warren Police Officer is expected to survive after crashing his bike on Wednesday afternoon while trying to catch up to a speeding car.

For the last two months, FOX 2 joined Motor City Mitten Mission - a homeless services group - on several outreach sessions around Detroit, documenting the delivery of food and clothes while the group connected clients with housing services and treatment. The death toll from the Astroworld tragedy has sadly increased to 9 after year-old Bharti Shahani, who was hospitalized initially, passed away from her injuries. She was She had been hospitalized for days before dying at about 2 a.

Thursday, he said. Her political career started 50 years ago, in at age 32, Collins first ran for elected office, a seat on the Detroit Board of Education. In , she ran for a seat in the Michigan House of Representatives and won. She served for three terms. Collins wanted to pursue a congressional run in , according to her congressional biography, but was talked out of it by her mentor, Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, who thought a City Council run would be better.

After putting her congressional dream on hold for nearly a decade, Collins successfully ran in to represent Detroit in the U. During her time on Capitol Hill, Collins was appointed the majority whip-at-large. She touted legislation on sexual harassment laws, equal pensions for women and helping to bring the Neighborhood Enterprise Zones to Detroit.

It assumes population will drop as low as , — less than one-third of its peak. The framework makes no attempt to return Detroit to its glory days. Residential areas and commercial activity would be consolidated in densely populated nodes throughout the city — an effort to provide services more efficiently.

The vacant lots left behind would be converted for green uses, including urban farms, woodlands or storm water retention ponds. Planners and academics alike have generally lauded the plan, but it is, of course, predicated on a constant stream of development dollars, better city services — especially law enforcement — and improved public transportation. Many in the city still hope for repopulation, meanwhile, however unlikely that is. And then comes the logistical challenge. The myriad vacant houses, empty land and absentee property owners have created an unnavigable web of land titles, according to Brent Ryan, an associate professor of urban design at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT.

The city has taken some steps to address the problem, creating a centralised Department of Neighbourhoods and citywide land bank. But the existing situation effectively nixes large-scale projects before ground can be broken. The greatest problem with grandiose proposals, however, is that of the ticking clock. But convincing residents that such change will benefit their lives — and do so today — is another issue entirely.

Quincy Jones, head of the Osborn Neighbourhood Alliance , is one of the skeptics. When I visited his office in January, he said plans such as DFC are overwhelmingly positive — but that the difficulty lies in balancing long-term, overarching visions with quality-of-life improvements here and now.