NOVI, MI - You can watch “Ghostbusters” with an actual Ghostbuster. One of the original Ghostbusters, Ernie Hudson, will return to his home state of Michigan for a screening of the 1984 movie. Hudson was born and raised in Benton Harbor before moving to Detroit. The “Ghostbusters” screening will feature a question and answer session with Hudson at the Emagine Novi on Friday, May 17. Doors open at 7:00 p.m. Ghostbusters Detroit will hand out freebies at 7:30pm followed by the Q&A at 8:00 p.m. and then the showing of...

CHARLESTON, W.V. -- A Detroit man was sentenced to 80 years in prison Monday in connection with the 2021 murders of two women in West Virginia, according to the Associated Press. In February, Marquis Goodman, 24, pleaded guilty to count of second-degree murder for the fatal shootings of Bria White, 26, and Kytiana Belcher, 22, in Charleston, West Virginia. Despite pleas from Goodman’s attorney asking for a lighter sentence, Judge Ken Ballard issued the maximum of 40 years per charge, citing Goodman’s lengthy criminal record. Goodman’s attorney argued that his...

Two Texas men were sentenced to federal prison after robbing a Wells Fargo ATM in Tallahassee last year, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Florida. Charles Deon Mathews, 30, and Shair Trymaine Fields, 31, both of Houston, Texas, will spend roughly four years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Both men were each ordered to pay $88,710 in restitution to Wells Fargo and to forfeit $88,710 to the government, according to the release. The duo drove from Houston,...

Michigan State Police troopers tried to save three people — a 4-year-old boy, a 91-year-old River Rouge man and a teenager riding a motorcycle — in three separate fatal freeway wrecks Monday in metro Detroit that authorities said were preventable by following the law and driving safely. "Please be careful out there today," Michigan State Police posted early Tuesday morning on social media. "Yesterday, we had three people die in three separate preventable traffic crashes. Drive the speed limit, leave plenty of room between your vehicle and the one in...

A 30-year-old man who crashed his car into the glass entrance doors of the Macomb County Administration Building over two years ago has been found not guilty by reason of insanity. The plea from Nicholas S. Thompson of Detroit, who was subject of an attempted mental commitment less than a year before the incident, was accepted last week by Macomb Circuit Judge Joseph Toia after both Thompson’s attorney and Macomb prosecutors agreed with the assessment. Thompson was ordered to report to the state Center for Forensic Psychiatry near Ypsilanti for...

Villanova guard and New Jersey native Mark Armstrong will forego his final two seasons of college eligibility and remain in the 2024 NBA Draft, the school announced Monday. The South Orange native and former Saint Peter’s Prep standout announced last month he was declaring for the Draft. “After careful consideration and counsel with my parents and team, I have made the decision to remain in the NBA Draft,” Armstrong said in making the announcement. “I would like to thank Nova Nation for their endless support. Thank you, Coach Wright for...

Astros (12-22) update: Houston, which was swept by the Yankees in a four-game season-opening series at Minute Maid Park, escaped the American League West basement when the Angels (12-23) lost Monday night. The Astros stand 6½ games behind Seattle. … Today marks the first of 29 games in a 30-day span for the Astros. … After failing to drive in a run over his first 16 games, Jonathan Singleton has three homers and eight RBIs in his last six. … Joey Loperfido hit .267 (4-for-15) with two RBIs in his...

The No Mow May trend has branched out into a conversation much larger than whether to pause mowing your lawn for a month. Why it matters: The environmental movement cropped up because constant grass cutting diminishes pollen available to bees and other pollinating insects. The start of growing season is a critical time for hungry bees. • Some have turned instead to Less Mow May or Low Mow May — or doing away with grass lawns all together. Zoom in: Ann Arbor, for example, has encouraged keeping grass 6-12 inches...

What have our cities become, transformed into places that have separated us from what is naturally connected? How did we get to this frantic long-distance lifestyle? How did we get to less public space where cars are king with never-ending commutes, streets, avenues, boulevards, roads, and freeways? What caused nature to be relegated, at best, to a mere decorative role? Why have we lost the connection with nature that is essential to our daily regeneration? What mechanism has led us to disrupt the natural equilibrium between oxygen and CO ,...

Dr. Werner Spitz, a pathologist whose accounts of the traumatic last moments in some of the most sensational American deaths of the past 60 years figured in cases involving President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., O.J. Simpson, JonBenét Ramsey, Mary Jo Kopechne and many others, died April 14 in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. He was 97. He died in hospice care after a brief illness, his son Dr. Daniel Spitz said. Werner Spitz’s career of more than 60 years traced to the early days...