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(CNN) — A 91-year-old woman was killed Sunday when a helicopter crashed into her condominium in Williamsburg, Virginia, according to Virginia State Police. Jean Lonchak Danylko was killed when the aircraft hit her home around 4:30 p.m. Sunday, state police said in a statement Monday. The fate of the pilot is not clear, police said, due to concerns about the ...

Program host Geoffrey Baer and UM Professor Robert Fishman talk about the historic avenue in a vintage Ford. PBS on Tuesday night celebrates a slice of Detroit history for the second time in two weeks. A focus this time is Woodward Avenue, ranked among “10 Roads That Changed America.” On July 1, Michigan Central Station was ...

Ryan Mayer Professional baseball players are used to sitting through their fair share of delayed games during the course of the season. In most cases, those delays are due to weather related incidents. That wasn’t the case for Sunday’s Double-A contest between the Corpus Christi Hooks and Northwest Arkansas Naturals. Instead, the teams were forced to wait out an 85-minute ...

HOUSTON (AP) — Police in Houston say a 2-year-old boy is dead after he apparently found a loaded gun in his home and shot himself in the head. The shooting happened Sunday afternoon in northwest Houston. Police Capt. David Angelo says investigators are still piecing together what happened, but that they believe the boy found the unsecured gun, pointed it ...

(CNN) — Three Central American parents are suing US immigration officials for more communication with their children who were separated from them after they crossed the US-Mexico border illegally. In a court filing Thursday, lawyers for the three parents alleged that immigration authorities are not ensuring ample communication between the parents and their young children. The children mentioned in the ...

(CNN Money) — The US economy just keeps cranking out jobs. Businesses added 213,000 jobs in June, another strong month of gains. Employers kept hiring even as fears grew of a global trade war. The economy has added jobs every month for almost eight years. The unemployment rate inched up to 4%, the first increase in almost a year. But ...

Barb McQuade Former Detroit U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade, a President Obama appointee, has penned an opinion piece with former Alabama U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, in The Hill publication titled: “Baseless attacks on Robert Mueller must end to protect our democracy.”  McQuade and Vance, who regularly appear as talking heads on MSNBC, write: The ...

Former Thai Navy Seal Diver Dies in Cave Attempting Rescue (CNN) — Pressure is mounting on Thai authorities to bring forward a rescue plan for 12 boys and their coach trapped deep inside a flooded cave in northern Thailand, after the death of a former navy diver and a drop in oxygen levels underground. Officials initially thought they could keep ...

Brian Kischnick About four months ago, Troy City Manager Brian Kishnick was fired from his $161,000 job following allegations of domestic violence and questionable expenses. On Friday, federal authorities in Detroit charged him with bribery and taking more than $20,000 from a city contractor, Robert Snell of The Detroit News reports. “Through his criminal ...