A motorcycle dashcam caught a dramatic incident on Wednesday evening when a man lost control of his car and wound up driving through a building in Midtown. The video, posted on Facebook by Khanh Cai, shows a 2017 Ford Fusion being driven along Woodward Avenue as it begins to drift. It then rides up over the curb of a QLine stop and swerves just feet away from the motorcyclist before it hits another vehicle and smashes through the front door of 5708 Woodward Ave., coming to a stop at the other side of the building.

It sounds like something straight out of the TV show Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. A series of viral social media posts claim five women in Detroit have been found dead with tea bags stuffed in their mouths — allegedly the work of a serial murderer dubbed the “Tea Bag Killer” in retaliation for using a controversial smartphone app to gossip. But Detroit police say there is absolutely no truth behind the lurid tale.

Ranked choice voting could come to Michigan — if the campaign to get it on the 2026 general election ballot is successful and voters approve. The Rank MI Vote campaign said it has started collecting signatures on Thursday.

U.S. Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow is going bar-hopping this weekend. The Oakland County Democrat is appearing at breweries in the greater Detroit area “to show up, listen, and share a beer with Michiganders across the state,” her campaign says in a press release. The “McMorrow on Tap Brewery Tour” includes stops at the Ferndale Project at 6 p.m. on Friday, June 20, followed on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Ypsilanti’s 734 Brewing, Flint Brewery at 3 p.m. in Flint, and Warren’s Kuhnhenn Brewing at 5 p.m.

Starting in June, Detroit Metro Times will shift from being published weekly to biweekly. That means next month, we’ll publish issues on June 11 (our Summer Guide) and June 25. Due to a previous obligation, we will also publish the consecutive week on July 2 (our cannabis industry “Dab Day” issue) and July 9, but after that we plan to hit the streets every other Wednesday for the rest of the year.

Shopping is finally returning to the long-dormant site of Detroit’s former J.L. Hudson Department Store and the new home of Dan Gilbert’s Hudson’s Detroit tower. Gilbert’s Bedrock announced the first tenant for the building will be athletic apparel store Alo Yoga. It will be the Los Angeles-based company’s first Detroit location.

Bernie Sanders is once again asking for something literally every other industrialized nation in the world has except for the United States — universal health care. The U.S. Senator was joined on Tuesday by Michigan’s U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell and U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington to introduce the Medicare for All Act of 2025. “Every American has the right to health care, period,” Dingell said in a statement.

As anyone who’s ever had the pleasure of interacting with our neighbors to the north knows, Canadians are nice people. The nicest.

Every one of us should be outraged by the case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old Maryland resident, construction worker, and father of three who was deported to El Salvador and sent to a maximum security prison in what the Trump administration admitted was “administrative error.” Instead of correcting the mistake, however, President Donald Trump and his Republican allies are now doubling down and trying to alter reality — and some Democrats seem all too eager to help them by looking the other way. But we should all be concerned about a wannabe U.S. dictator arbitrarily disappearing someone without due process to an unaccountable foreign black site.

Women’s clothing boutique Free People is getting ready to open its newest location in downtown Detroit. Located in a Bedrock-owned building at 1425 Woodward Ave., the store has set an opening date for Friday, April 25.

Are you an aspiring journalist with an interest in the entertainment offerings of the Detroit area? If so, we could use your help this summer!

Abdul El-Sayed — a former Wayne County public health official who came in second place against Gretchen Whitmer in the 2018 Michigan gubernatorial primary — is returning to politics. On Thursday, El-Sayed announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Gary Peters in 2026, earning the endorsement of U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders.

It’s safe to say that Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s recent overture to President Donald Trump didn’t go exactly as planned. Last week, Big Gretch was in Washington, D.C. to bend the ear of Trump — her second such visit in two months. But whatever Whitmer hoped to accomplish, a viral photo showing her hiding from cameras as she found herself in an awkward situation in the Oval Office probably wasn’t part of it.