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He got served. The incensed Detroit judge who slapped handcuffs on a 15-year-old girl and threatened to throw her in prison after she nodded off during a field trip to his courtroom has been suspended and will undergo training, officials said. Judge Kenneth King’s docket was temporarily suspended by the chief judge of the 36th District Court in Detroit after he was filmed berating the teenager who visited the court on a legal education trip with nonprofit group Greening of Detroit, The Detroit News reported. King will undergo training to “address the underlying issues that contributed to this incident” after...

One man died, and two others were hospitalized after a shooting at a Detroit gas station over a $4 purchase being declined, officials said. Gregory Kelly, 37, of Detroit, was fatally shot around 3 a.m. Saturday, May 6, at a gas station in the 12800 block of West McNichols, the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office said in a news release. Samuel Anthony McCray, 27, of Detroit, is charged with first-degree murder and other crimes related to the incident. A 60-year-old man and 37-year-old man were also injured in the shooting, the release said. It is alleged that, shortly after 3 a.m....