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A network of 3D printers that Oakland County's small manufacturers have used since the height of the 2020 pandemic is being expanded to a regionwide effort designed to help more than 9,100 small manufacturers.

The National Football League (NFL) estimated Thursday that 40 percent of the business contracts awarded in connection to its draft festivities earlier this month in Detroit went to Black-owned businesses.

The officers in the Detroit Police Department's mental health department aren't your regular gun-toting, blue-uniformed cops. Instead, they're unarmed officers wearing khaki green uniforms.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday that the Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve (SOAR) package presented by House Democrats this week has “a lot of promise to it,” a slightly more positive response than her previous reaction to the Senate’s amended SOAR package.

Michigan State University (MSU) Athletic Director Alan Haller told panelists and audience members Tuesday he doesn’t believe high school students should be participating in name, image and likeness (NIL) compensation at this time, contrasting with legislation that passed the House last year.