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The reporter who exposed Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's racist yearbook photo said a "concerned citizen" led him to the story that has prompted widespread outrage and calls for the Democrat's resignation. Patrick Howley, editor in chief of the website Big League Politics, first reported Friday the existence of a photo on Northam's page of his medical-school yearbook depicting a figure in blackface standing next to another person in a Ku Klux Klan hood. "It's very easy to explain," Howley, 29, said in an interview Saturday. "A concerned citizen, not a political opponent, came to us and pointed this out. I...

<p>A man was beating a 16-year-old girl with a pipe Wednesday morning on Detroit's west side.</p> <p>Suddenly, the man was dead, shot several times by a passenger in a passing car.</p> <p>Police are looking for the driver of the car and the gunman, who might not be a criminal suspect, but a much rarer species -- a drive-by vigilante.</p>

Dodie Wheaton and her friend were driving into town for snow cones Sunday night when she saw the passenger door of an oncoming car open - and watched in horror as a toddler tumbled onto the road. "Stop! Baby!" she shouted to her friend, Paul Heter, who did as instructed, and Wheaton sprinted to the middle of Woody Seat Freeway to fetch the girl. The girl, 2-year-old Raven Schmidt, "had hit the ground hard," Wheaton said. Schmidt was responsive when emergency crews arrived shortly after 8:30 p.m., but was later taken by EagleMED helicopter from Hutchinson Hospital to Wesley Medical...