An engaged crowd filled the Ambassador ballroom at the Marriott in downtown Detroit today, for day one of New Detroit’s conference called “Just Lead: Advancing Racial Equity.”

A man was shot Wednesday (March 9) at a Southfield hotel, police said.

A Madison Heights woman called 911 and reported a fake shooting in the hopes that Troy officers would respond to the more serious crime and not arrest her boyfriend during a traffic stop, authorities said.

Marriott saw dramatic improvement in the third quarter as travel demand rebounded in China. Average occupancy at hotels in China hit 61% during the quarter, down just 10% from a year ago. Sorenson said leisure travelers who might usually go abroad are staying in China, boosting occupancy rates. Business and group demand is weaker, partly because international business travel — which normally accounts for 25% of Marriott's business in China — is down significantly. The trend toward remote work could accelerate a shift the industry was already seeing away from business travel, Sorenson said.

A chance discovery of a memory card containing brutal images and video of a woman being beaten and killed has led to the arrest of a man in Alaska, police said. Anchorage Police Department spokesman MJ Thim said detectives reviewing the videos recognized the voice of Smith from an unrelated investigation. On Oct. 2, two days after the card was found, a woman's remains were discovered along a busy highway in Anchorage. The images and video showed a naked woman being beaten on the floor of a hotel room, police said. Investigators using phone records tracked Smith's cellphone to the area where Henry's body was discovered, authorities said.

Glenn Hunt/Getty Images(CNN) - Another leading hotel company is eliminating tiny toiletries from its rooms. Marriott announced it's replacing travel-sized tubes of shampoo, conditioner and bath gel with larger bottles in an attempt to reduce plastic waste. Marriott said the small bottles currently used aren't usually recycled. Last month, IHG, which owns Holiday Inn, said it would replace travel-sized tubes with bulk-sized toiletries beginning in 2021. Hilton Hotels previously announced that it's recycling used soap, transforming it into new bars of soap after they've been crushed and sanitized.

What would you consider to be Michigan's best hotel or resort? There's the new and buzzworthy Shinola Hotel in Detroit, along with the always-stunning Detroit Foundation Hotel, for those thinking the answer must be downtown. But according to Conde Nast Traveler, the very best our state has to offer is up north -- or, more specifically, on Mackinac Island. Photo provided for media use, grandhotel.comOf course, we're referring to the Grand Hotel. Here's what the website wrote about the Grand:"For more than a century, Grand Hotel has stood as a landmark accommodation on Michigans Mackinac Island.

What would you consider to be Michigan's best hotel or resort? There's the new and buzzworthy Shinola Hotel in Detroit, along with the always-stunning Detroit Foundation Hotel, for those thinking the answer must be downtown. But according to Conde Nast Traveler, the very best our state has to offer is up north -- or, more specifically, on Mackinac Island. Photo provided for media use, grandhotel.comOf course, we're referring to the Grand Hotel. Here's what the website wrote about the Grand:"For more than a century, Grand Hotel has stood as a landmark accommodation on Michigan’s Mackinac Island.