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1 month ago | 
fox17online.com | Whitney Burney |Kent Saunders
DETROIT (WXYZ) — As hundreds continue to clean up following the devastating water main break in southwest Detroit, a local tech startup is looking at ways to prevent the next one. Motmot is located in the Newlab building on the Michigan Central Station campus and is compromised of a handful of engineers. For the last few years, the team has been working on the Motbot, an underwater AI device that can be used as an inspection tool for municipality water lines.
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1 month ago | 
wxyz.com | Whitney Burney |Kent Saunders
DETROIT (WXYZ) — As hundreds continue to clean up following the devastating water main break in southwest Detroit, a local tech startup is looking at ways to prevent the next one. Motmot is located in the Newlab building on the Michigan Central Station campus and is compromised of a handful of engineers. For the last few years, the team has been working on the Motbot, an underwater AI device that can be used as an inspection tool for municipality water lines.
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2 months ago | 
wxyz.com | Sarah Michals |Kent Saunders
PONTIAC, Mich. (WXYZ) — Jennifer Crumbley was back in court Friday, this time with a new attorney, fighting for a completely new trial. PREVIOUS REPORT: Jennifer Crumbley challenging conviction in Oxford school shooting Jennifer Crumbley challenging conviction in Oxford school shooting Crumbley's new attorney, Michael Dezsi, told Oakland County Judge Cheryl Matthews that Crumbley deserves a new trial because "proffer agreements" made by the prosecution were not properly disclosed.
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2 months ago | 
wxyz.com | Sarah Michals |Kent Saunders
WASHINGTON (WXYZ) — On average, more than 800 flights take off from Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport every day. Nationally, the Federal Aviation Administration handles about 45,000 flights a day. Annually, the agency handles about 16,405,000 flights.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
wxyz.com | Sarah Michals |Kent Saunders
DETROIT (WXYZ) — The Detroit Lions' success, is all of Detroit's success. "The Lions win last night was so enormous," said Claude Molinari, Visit Detroit's President & CEO. As the number one seed in the NFC Playoffs, the Detroit Lions have now secured at least one, maybe two home playoff games. According to Molinari, that means millions for the city.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
wxyz.com | Sarah Michals |Kent Saunders
LANSING, Mich. (WXYZ) — As we enter the last days of the legislative session, House Democrats will soon lose their majority at the end of the year and are pushing several new options to fund road repair in Michigan. Democratic Reps. Jasper Martus and Alabas Farhat are sponsors of bills introduced on Dec. 5. The bills propose hiking annual registration fees by $100 per vehicle, adding tolls to some of the state's busiest freeway and a 19 cent fuel tax hike.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
wxyz.com | Mike Duffy |Kent Saunders
BELLE ISLE (WXY) — It's been a long time coming. The plant conservatory on Belle Isle is now back open to the public after over 2 years of renovation. And if you know me, you know I love plants. So you can guess how excited I was to check it out today during its grand re-opening and talk to Detroiters doing the same.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
wxyz.com | Faraz Javed |Kent Saunders
WARREN, Mich. (WXYZ) — Nearly two months after the Warren car crash that killed 34-year-old Cedric Hayden Jr. and 33-year-old DeJuan Pettis, the Warren police officer driving the police cruiser has been charged. According to court documents, on November 22nd, the officer, James Burke, was charged and arraigned at Warren District Court on four counts, including Manslaughter with a motor vehicle, a fifteen-year felony.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
wxyz.com | Sarah Michals |Kent Saunders
WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WXYZ) — Days after West Bloomfield Township voter Renee Fluker turned in her absentee ballot, she told 7 News Detroit that she got a phone call from a number she didn't recognize. "A gentleman called me from San Jose saying my ballot was voided!" Fluker said. She said that the caller told her to contact West Bloomfield Township to find out what was wrong, so she did just that. "They told me that my signature didn’t match what was on file," Fluker said.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
ktvz.com | Sarah Michals |Kent Saunders
By Sarah Michals, Kent SaundersClick here for updates on this story ROSEVILLE, Michigan (WXYZ) — Britney Carucci shared with us a video taken on an iPhone by her 6-year-old son Zaiden in Roseville on October 17th. Zaiden has autism, is nonverbal, and loves to sing. In the video, you can hear a few notes from Zaiden as he runs out of his grandmother’s home, directly into a neighbor’s house.
