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When the shock-rocker returned to the place of his birth in the 60s, he found a raw paradise of unsegregated rock’n’roll. As Cooper releases an album celebrating the city, he and his peers relive one of the US’s greatest music scenesIn the beginning there was the production line; the hammering and the pumping and the noise. Always the noise. “Detroit was an industrial city,”...

Timesha Beauchamp, 20, died in hospital in DetroitStaff at funeral home had found her breathingA 20-year-old suburban Detroit woman who was declared dead only to be found alive at a funeral home in August has died, the attorney representing her family said on Monday.Timesha Beauchamp died on Sunday at Children’s hospital in Detroit, Geoffrey Fieger said in a news release. Continue reading...

20-year-old Timesha Beauchamp was discovered alive shortly before she was to be embalmed, according to family lawyer. A young woman who was declared dead at her suburban Detroit home opened her eyes at a funeral home as she was about to be embalmed, a lawyer has said.“They would have begun draining her blood to be very, very frank about it,” Geoffrey Fieger told WXYZ-TV....

Photos show Rev Timothy Pelc shooting water into car window at Easter, sparking online memesCoronavirus – latest US updatesCoronavirus – latest global updatesA Roman Catholic priest in the Detroit area has taken aim at his parishioners in a bid to maintain social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic, using a squirt gun to shoot holy water.Photos posted on social media by the St Ambrose Church...

Detroit’s most vulnerable residents face inequalities like toxic air, lead poisoning, and water shutoffs. Now they’re fighting backGrowing up in southwest Detroit, Vince Martin thought it was normal for the sky to be orange.When he was three years old, his family moved from Cuba to one of the black areas of town. At the time, discriminatory housing practices segregated the city. His Afro-Cuban family...

United Auto Workers called a strike on Sunday for the first time in over a decade as contract negotiations reached an impasseUncertainty, apprehension and stress were the words people picketing General Motors workers at the car company’s sprawling Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant used to describe day one of their strike.If the strike by United Auto Workers (UAW) members drags on, they could soon end up...

Former vice-president targeted in second Democratic debateBiden rejects criticism of healthcare and immigration plansJoe Biden was the central target as 10 Democratic presidential candidates took the stage for the second debate in Detroit on Wednesday, with rivals attempting to knock the former vice-president from his frontrunner status.Unlike last month’s debate in Miami, however, where Biden visibly struggled to defend his decades-old record, this time...