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He said he was worried about how long the safety belt would hold.
The fifth installment of the annual ArtPrize international art competition is getting underway in Grand Rapids. Hundreds of entries from 45 states and 47 countries are in the running.
Wednesday night's Powerball jackpot tops $400 million, and that has Metro Detroiters rushing to stores for their tickets.
Parents and students in Milford are being warned about a case of potential stranger danger.
Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter/Square, paid a visit to downtown Detroit Tuesday night to host a free forum with local business owners designed to encourage economic growth in the city.
Hurts to hear the truth sometimes I guess … Lions players take issue with Tony Dungy's comments.
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Detroit Police say the officer went to help when he heard an accident near his home in the Ashton and Schoolcraft area.
Thomas M. Cooley Law School and Western Michigan University have formally signed an affiliation agreement between the two schools.
WWE superstars Brodus Clay and Hornswoggle spent time at Dresden Elementary School in Sterling Heights helping promote the love of reading.
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George W. Bush once said, "Think about every problem, every challenge we face. The solution to each starts with education." That is certainly true in Detroit... Michigan... and the United States. Education helps us turn away bitterness, misconceptions and anger at our differences. Education helps us understand the world around us and gives us perspective. Education develops a generation of responsible individuals who understand proper conduct. Education drives economic development. Education turns into jobs and the more education, the higher the salary. Not to mention, continual lifetime learning does all of the above. So when I read the Education and Talent Michigan Scorecard the Center for Michigan just put out that compared Michigan to the other 49 states it gave me great pause. Here's why. We are 42nd in the nation in 4th grade math and 37th in 8th grade math. We are 36th in 4th grade reading and 29th in 8th grade reading. We are 28th in 4th grade science and 18th in 8th grade science. We are 25th in expenditures per pupil and 37th in college completion. We are 45th in college affordability and 39th in higher education investment. As a result we are 35th in per capita income, our unemployment rate is ranked poor at 8.7 percent, and we are ranked 14th in violent crime. In Detroit, the high school graduation rate is 64.7 percent and the dropout rate is nearly 29 percent, according to studies by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and Excellent Schools Detroit. We aren't faring much better on the national front, where the U.S. education system has lost competitive ground internationally. Our nation has slipped 10 spots in both high school and college graduation rates over the past three decades, according to a new report and scorecard from the Council on Foreign Relations' Renewing America initiative, which examines the domestic foundations of U.S. power. So what does that mean to all of us? To the business community it means we are slowly losing our ability to innovate and be competitive globally. To the nation it means our national security and economic development are further threatened if we can't compete with other nations and set a positive example. "It is an economist's rule that an increase of one year in a country's average schooling level corresponds to an increase of 3 to 4 percent in long term economic growth," the study says. Innovation is what drives a societal change and what will change the world. If the U.S. is not at the forefront we will be left behind, and so will its businesses. Business, government and the educational community must come together to develop a new, robust learning model that truly reinvents education throughout our nation. As John F. Kennedy said, "Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource." We simply must instill a passion for education and continual learning that taps that human mind in our city, our state and our nation if we expect to compete.
The Emmy Awards will feature five special memorial tributes, including one to "Glee" star Cory Monteith, organizers said.
The Michigan Land Bank has put the home once owned by the rapper's mother, Debbie Nelson, up for sale.
Fire officials are investigating after a man was injured in an Ann Arbor house explosion Monday morning. CBS News Detroit's Jordan Burrows gives the latest updates from the scene.
The Michigan State Spartans celebrated a weekend of commencement ceremonies.
Families poured in to check out this Michigan treasure.
The City of Detroit's Easter Fun Fest returns to provide families an opportunity to not only get outside and be active, but ring in the holiday with some fun.
Mixed media artist Donald Calloway has been creating art in some form or fashion most of his life. His art studio takes you on a journey, as his creative collection of his art runs the gamut.
Soon after a positive test, Dorfman found himself hospitalized, on a ventilator and in a medically induced coma.
It has been 12 days since anyone has seen Armani Kelly, Montoya Givens and Dante Wicker. Now, a Facebook live video conversation has surfaced where Kelly is seen talking with three men about coming to Detroit only two days before he went missing.
A Plymouth man's cancer diagnosis hit the reset button on how he lived his life. Since then, he and his family have been giving back to others facing the same struggles.
The Sphinx organization gives a platform to Black and Latinx performers of all ages.