Coronavirus exposure leads hundreds of Detroit health care workers to quarantine amid staffing concerns

After then-candidate Joe Biden vowed to choose a woman as his running mate in the 2020 election, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer emerged as an early front-runner, but now that Biden has won, Whitmer admits she is glad she never got the call.

Investigators in Michigan reported the discovery of a second body inside a Detroit-area home where a woman was found dead and her husband critically wounded, according to a report. Police said the third person was a man but did not disclose more details about his identity, FOX 2 of Detroit reported.On Wednesday morning, Maria Ortega, 77, was found fatally stabbed in the Garden City home and her husband, Juan, 77, was hospitalized after he was found wounded, the report said.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers plans to delay getting the COVID-19 vaccine -- which became available to congressional leaders last week -- until all health care workers and people over the age of 65 have had a chance to receive it.  Reps.

Dax Shepard couldn’t have gotten through his recent relapse into pill addiction without the support of his wife, Kristen Bell.Three months after revealing the roadblock in his 16-year sobriety journey, the Michigan native, 45, opened up about how sharing his story with the world was a major turning point.

Benny Napoleon, a Detroit-area sheriff who spent decades in Motor City law enforcement and whose police chief brother overcame COVID-19 earlier this year, succumbed to the illness. He was 65.

A Detroit-area man upset that his parents asked him to turn off his video game while in their bedroom last week so they could go to sleep flew into a rage and stabbed them, with his stepdad succumbing to his injuries days later, authorities said.  Christopher McKinney, 29, of Madison Heights, faces several charges related to the Dec.

A Michigan youth basketball coach is charged in connection to the beating of his 3-month-old child's mother that was so severe that she will need facial reconstruction, according to media reports.  Oakland County Sheriff's deputies responded to reports of an injured female Saturday in Orion Charter Township outside Detroit. They learned that the woman had walked to a neighbor's home seeking help and said her infant had been taken by her fiance and the child's father -- who has been identified as

A Michigan family doctor fathered hundreds of children with his patients using his own sperm over several decades, sometimes without their knowdledge, according to news reports.  A group of siblings found out they were genetically matched after doing an online DNA test and traced their birth to Detroit Dr.

The first doses of New York’s coronavirus vaccine supply went to a health care worker who spent the last 10 months working the front lines as the illness ripped through the state.The Northwell Health employee, who was the first to receive the vaccine on Monday, was identified as Sandra Lindsay, RN, a critical care nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center. She was vaccinated during a Gov.

State officials in Michigan told local media Sunday that key buildings in the state, including its Senate and House, will be closed Monday due to unconfirmed threats prior to the Electoral College meeting.

Michigan state Republicans went “too far” in saying they would pull committee assignments from a state Democrat who threatened Trump supporters in a viral video, the state’s Democratic governor said Thursday. “Make them pay,” state Rep.

The day after Los Angeles County’s number of new cases topped 10,000 for the first time, state and local officials warned about the status of the region’s health care system.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will serve as co-chair for President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration next month.  Biden’s transition team announced Whitmer’s name on Monday alongside House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., Reps.

A Michigan man says he was possibly targeted due to his political beliefs after at least one explosive was thrown into his home on Saturday morning, according to reports. The St.

Michigan state lawmakers are going to bat for Detroit Lions fans and hoping to bring in a native to become the team’s next head coach. The group sent a letter to Lions ownership asking for the organization to recruit San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Robert Saleh to be the next head coach, ESPN reported Friday.

The Detroit News.Stephens, a former embalmer and funeral home director from 2007 to 2013, sued the funeral home chain for sex discrimination in response to being fired after telling her boss, Thomas Rost, that she was transitioning from male to female and planned to begin wearing women’s business attire to work.Rost raised personal religious objections to Stephens’ transition, arguing that Stephens’ transition would be a distraction, and demanded that she continue to adhere to dress code

After battling the novel coronavirus, a Michigan couple married for nearly 50 years died within seconds of one another.  Patricia and Leslie "L.D." McWaters, of Jackson, died on Nov. 24 “within the very same minute,” reads their obituary.  Patricia and Leslie "L.D." McWaters, of Jackson, died on Nov.

Hilary Duff was able to reunite with her family for Thanksgiving after being in quarantine for COVID-19 exposure.The Younger star shared an adorable photo from her holiday celebrations with her husband, Matthew Koma, her 8-year-old son, Luca, and the couple’s 2-year-old daughter, Banks. “Happy Thanksgiving!” the former child star, 33, captioned the sweet family shot on Friday, November 27.