The Detroit Police Department is investigating an apparent theft of a recently installed statue in Rouge Park honoring the late Lt. Col. Alexander Jefferson, a Tuskegee Airman who flew missions in World War II.

The Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from a former Texas police officer convicted in the death of a woman who was shot through a window of her home.

Justin Jefferson earned the richest non-quarterback contract in NFL history for all his accomplishments on the field over four seasons with Minnesota.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports Native Americans and Alaska Natives in Washington state die of opioid overdoses at five times the state average.

Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson was taken to a hospital after being hit in the chest during Minnesota’s 3-0 victory over the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday, but he returned to Allegiant Stadium and then flew home with the team.

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A former Texas police officer convicted of manslaughter for fatally shooting Atatiana Jefferson through a rear window of her home in 2019 has been sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison.

A former Texas police officer has been convicted of manslaughter for fatally shooting a Black woman through a rear window of her home in 2019.

A jury began deliberations Wednesday in the murder case against a former Texas police officer charged with fatally shooting a Black woman through a rear window of her home in 2019.

The Spirit of Detroit is being used to transform the alleys in a few neighborhoods into works of art.

A Detroit apartment complex is on day four of having no power.

Nothing kicks off summer better than a chance to enjoy great art, food, and music with friends and family.

The Senate has confirmed economist Phillip Jefferson to the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors.

Van Jefferson won the Super Bowl on Sunday, and it wasn’t even the best part of his weekend.

It was quite a night for Los Angeles Rams wideout Van Jefferson.

A man suspected of robbing two dollar stores on Wednesday in Detroit has been arrested, police announced Friday.

Bryce Young passed for a school-record 559 yards and five touchdowns and No. 2 Alabama clinched a spot in the Southeastern Conference championship game with a 42-35 victory Saturday over No. 21 Arkansas.

The rapidly escalating surge in COVID-19 infections is once again overwhelming hospitals across the U.S. That is especially true in hot spots such as Louisiana, which hit a record number of coronavirus hospitalizations last week.

It’s coming in the form of a community funded neighborhood grocery store right in the heart of Detroit’s Jefferson and Chalmers neighborhood. Many are excited about the neighborhood grocery store right on Manistique. “This is the upcoming neighborhood grocery. Wright is the owner of the upcoming grocery store. The checkout counter, we’re going to rebuild the checkout counter here,” said Wright.

Police are looking for four men wanted in connection with a series of businesses broken into Jan. 6, 2020. DETROIT – Police are looking for four men wanted in connection with a series of burglaries and businesses broken into early Wednesday morning. According to authorities, between 2:50 a.m. and 3:30 a.m., several Detroit businesses were broken into. Police said a gas station near the intersection of Jefferson Avenue and Mt. Police described the suspects as four Black men who were driving a white Dodge Charger with two black racing stripes on it.

DETROIT – Detroit police are seeking the public’s help in locating 42-year-old Steven Olson, who was last seen Sunday in the 400 block of Grand Boulevard, running south toward Jefferson. Police said Olson is described as between 5 feet 2 inches tall and 5 feet 6 inches tall, 140-165 pounds and black hair. He was last seen wearing a dark-colored baseball hat, brown jacket and jeans. Police said Olson “is in good physical condition but suffers from a mental health condition.”Anyone with information is asked to call Detroit Police Department’s Seventh Precinct investigative unit at 313-596-5740 or Crime Stoppers at 800-Speak Up. View more: Missing in Michigan

Jefferson is one of several landowners protesting the pipeline because they are worried about its potential environmental effects. The proposed 14.5-mile-long (23-kilometer-long) gas line is small in contrast to projects like the recently canceled Atlantic Coast Pipeline, or even a 55-mile-long (88.5-kilometer-long) pipeline Dominion built recently in the state. The company cites new energy demand spurred by economic growth in eastern South Carolina as the impetus for the project. She points to the explosion of a Dominion gas line in Ohio and allegations over pollution involving coal ash in Virginia. Dominion held a community workshop in January at the town’s elementary school so residents could learn more about the proposed pipeline.

DETROIT – The first train rolled out of Michigan Central Station on Dec. 26, 1913. Michigan Central was originally scheduled to open in 1914, but a fire at the old depot at Third and Jefferson avenues forced the station to open early. A newspaper quote from when Michigan Central Station first opened in 1913 is projected on the front of the building on June 15, 2018. The train station was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. New hopeFord Motor Co. announced it had purchased the train station in the summer of 2018.

Marquis Jefferson has a good relationship with his daughter's mother and siblings, who use the surname, Carr, according to Carter. Shot while playing with her nephewFormer Fort Worth officer Aaron Dean, one of two policemen who responded to the neighbor's call to check on Jefferson's house, has been charged with her murder. On Saturday, a small group of protesters marched in Fort Worth. "We want the nation to know what's going on in Fort Worth," Sharpton said, according to the station. Remembering a woman who loved her familyJefferson had recently moved home to Fort Worth to take care of her ailing mother.

Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Malik Jackson and Sacramento Kings small forward Harrison Barnes have volunteered to pay for Jeffersons funeral. When officers from the Fort Worth Police Department responded, they performed a perimeter check. Jeffersons funeral was supposed to take place on Saturday afternoon at The Potters House in Dallas. As a reflection of our core values, The Potters House will continue to stand ready to serve the community when called upon, The Potters House said in part in a statement. A gofundme for Jefferson's family to help with funeral costs has raised nearly $250,000.

"I don't feel like there's been reform throughout policing in this country," said Philip Stinson, a criminologist at Bowling Green State University in Ohio and a former police officer. He credits outrage over Michael Brown's death and other killings for what he calls an unprecedented burst of police reform. The title: " 'Not Dead Yet:' The national police crisis, a new conversation about policing, and the prospects for accountability-related police reform." "But when you look just below the surface there has been an extraordinary burst of police reform, in several separate areas of policing." As Jefferson is mourned a week after he death, the occasional legal victories and so-called waves of reform offer little solace for her grieving family.

Copyright 2019 CNN(CNN) - The burial of Atatiana Jefferson, who was fatally shot by a Fort Worth police officer, has been delayed after her father was granted a temporary restraining order, according to court records. Shot while playing video games with her nephewFormer Fort Worth Officer Aaron Dean resigned from the force and has been charged with Jefferson's murder. Jim Lane, a Fort Worth attorney who is representing Dean, declined to comment on the case. Remembering a woman who loved her familyJefferson had recently moved back home to Fort Worth to take care of her ailing mother. Lord have mercy, it could brighten up any room," her father told reporters Friday night.

Copyright 2019 CNN(CNN) - Sacramento Kings forward Harrison Barnes and his wife, Brittany, are paying most costs for the funeral of Atatiana Jefferson. Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Malik Jackson has committed to paying for the rest, the Jefferson family's attorney told the Dallas Morning News. Jefferson had been playing video games with her 8-year-old nephew when she was shot, according to an attorney for the family. CNN has reached out to S. Lee Merritt, the attorney for the Jefferson family, and representatives for Barnes and Jackson for comment. "It's about the family," Barnes said.

Atatiana Jefferson, known as the "cool auntie" to her 8-year-old nephew, was playing video games with the young boy when she was shot and killed by a police officer standing outside her window. Jefferson, 28, was babysitting her nephew when Fort Worth officers arrived outside her house to perform a welfare check. It was then that Dean fatally shot Jefferson through the window. "He saw her when she fell," Merritt told CNN of Jefferson's nephew. This tragic loss of life has major ramifications for all involved, especially the family of Ms. Atatiana Jefferson, police said in a statement.

(CNN) - Fort Worth Interim Police Chief Ed Kraus apologized Tuesday for the killing of Atatiana Jefferson in her home by a Fort Worth officer. Fort Worth police responded to a call to check on Jefferson's home in the early hours of Saturday morning. "The city of Fort Worth is unique in allowing its own department to investigate its own officers," Merritt told CNN Monday. The Fort Worth Police Department has presented a preliminary case to the FBI to review Dean's actions for possible civil rights violations, according to interim police Chief Ed Kraus. Saturday's shooting is the ninth by Fort Worth police in 2019, police said.

Atatiana Koquice Jefferson, a black woman, was shot and killed by a white police officer in her Fort Worth, Texas, home. (CNN) - The former Fort Worth police officer who fatally shot Atatiana Jefferson in her home Saturday morning was arrested and charged with murder Monday, police said. The officer, Aaron Dean, is being held in the Tarrant County Jail, the Fort Worth Police Department wrote on Twitter. The City of Fort Worth has much work to do to reform a brutal culture of policing." "My intent was to meet with him today to terminate his employment with the Fort Worth Police Department.

A woman was shot and killed by a Fort Worth police officer in her own home. But in the seconds leading up to Jefferson's death, a Fort Worth police officer shot into her bedroom, killing her near her 8-year-old nephew. "It's senseless," her father Marquis Jefferson told CNN affiliate KTVT. Jefferson moved into her ailing mother's home a few months ago to take care of her, Merritt told CNN. "We lost her for no reason," her stepmother Noella Jefferson told KTVT.

A white police officer shot and killed Atatiana Koquice Jefferson, a 28-year-old black woman, through her window early Saturday morning in Fort Worth, Texas. Police are investigatingThe Fort Worth Police Officer's Association said in a statement that they're "deeply saddened" by the shooting. "We are urging the Fort Worth Police Department to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation, and through that investigation we hope to gain clarity and understanding of what transpired." Saturday's shooting is the ninth in 2019 by Fort Worth Texas Police, seven of which were fatal, he said. "We don't think that Fort Worth police should be investigating it on their own," attorney Lee Merritt told CNN Sunday.

A 28-year-old black woman was shot and killed in her Texas home by police early Saturday morning. "No domestic violence, no arguing, nothing that they should have been concerned about as far as them coming with guns drawn to my neighbors house, Smith told WFAA. When Fort Worth Police Department cops showed up, they searched the perimeter of Jeffersons home. Authorities did not identify the officer who fatally shot Jefferson but said he is white and joined the department in April 2018. InsideEdition.com reached out to the Fort Worth Police Department and has not yet received a response.

A local grandmother is calling for a change in policy at Green Primary School after she said her grandson was embarrassed by the cafeteria staff. Diane Bailey said a misunderstanding led to her grandson having his lunch taken away in front of his classmates. The children are supposed to be enrolled in the free and reduced lunch program. Bailey said she was told by administration there that she could write a check for her grandsons lunch balance until the free and reduced lunch registration paperwork was processed. As it relates specifically to our policy, students receive multiple means of communication when their accounts become negative.

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A man's body was pulled from the Detroit River on JUne 27, 2019. (WDIV)DETROIT - The Detroit Police Dive Team has found the body of a man who went missing in the Detroit River. The 35-year-old man was reported missing overnight at the Erma Henderson Marina on Jefferson Avenue. A witness told police the man accidentally stepped off the dock near the seawall and fell into the river. The dive team found his body several hours later Thursday morning in a canal at the marina.

DETROIT - The Coast Guard has found the body of a man who went missing in the Detroit River. The 35-year-old man was reported missing overnight Thursday at the Erma Henderson Marina on Jefferson. A witness told police the man accidentally stepped off the dock near the seawall and fell into the river. The dive team found his body several hours later. Copyright 2019 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.

DETROIT - The Coast Guard is searching for a woman who went missing in the Detroit River. The 35-year-old woman was reported missing overnight Thursday at the Erma Henderson Marina on Jefferson. A witness told police the woman accidentally stepped off the dock near the seawall and fell into the river. The dive team is searching for the woman. Copyright 2019 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.