Detroit on Monday wrapped up its historic bankruptcy case, which began with contentious opposition from creditors and ended with eleventh-hour deals enabling the city to shed $7 billion of its $18 billion of debt and obligations.
A tearful judge on Wednesday sent a white Michigan man to prison for at least 17 years for fatally shooting an unarmed black teenager on his front porch in a racially charged case that sparked protests in the Detroit area.
Businesses and homes "from Maine to Michigan and into Canada that have been without electricity since last weekend's ice storm... and they may not get their power back for another day,"
19-year-old Eric Knysz was charged with murder on Wednesday in the shooting death of state trooper Paul Butterfield near Ludington Michigan. Knysz's wife Sarah was also charged with helping him try to get away. She was also due in court on Wednesday.Butterfield was shot in the head by Knysz during a traffic stop on Monday in Mason County's Sherman Township, which is about 80 miles north of Grand Rapids
