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Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Gay Marriage

The U.S. Supreme Court issued a watershed 5-4 ruling Friday in favor of gay marriage that effectively ends a decades-long battle for marriage equality fought in state legislatures, courts and at the ballot box.

‘God Loves Gays’ Campaign Shares Billboard with Anti-Gay Group

God, according to a digital billboard message that flashed motorists in the Dearborn Heights area, is tiring of all that hating on gays. Another message in the billboard rotation claims homosexuality is a behavior.

Listen: Dispatcher Talks Dad Through Son’s Birth

A 911 dispatcher kept a cool head as she talked an Oakland County man through his wife’s delivery of their second child.

Typo in Online Auction Nearly Costly for Developer

Oops! A metro Detroit developer frantically tapped at his computer’s backspace key to erase extra zeros from a $13 billion bid he erroneously entered on a website managing the sale of two Detroit art deco treasures, the Fisher and the Albert Kahn buildings.

City Turns Weed Control Over to Kid Working for Food

We kid you not. A goat has been put in charge of nibbling away at the unwanted vegetation in a city-managed drainage basin in Farmington Hills.

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