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Detroit Lions running back D'Andre Swift (32) rushes in the first half against the Washington Commanders during an NFL football game, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2022, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Rick Osentoski)

Commanders’ defense can’t stop Lions in loss

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times

Washington Commanders receiver Terry McLaurin (17) celebrates a 49-yard touchdown reception during the fourth quarter against the Jacksonville Jaguars at FedEx Field, Landover, MD, September 11, 2022. (Photo by Brian Murphy) **FILE**

Optimism for the Commanders is high. Unless you’re talking to oddsmakers

By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times

Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts (1) runs the ball against the Detroit Lions in the first half of an NFL football game in Detroit, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Duane Burleson)

Hurts, Eagles too much for Lions in opener

By Larry Lage - Associated Press

Singer Diana Ross, second from left, joins songwriters, from left, Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland and Eddie Holland after the writing team was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in New York on Jan. 17, 1990. Dozier, of the celebrated Holland-Dozier-Holland team that wrote and produced “You Can’t Hurry Love,” “Heat Wave” and dozens of other hits and helped make Motown an essential record company of the 1960s and beyond, has died at age 81. (AP Photo/Ron Frehm, File)

Motown songwriter-producer Lamont Dozier dead at 81

By Hillel Italie - Associated Press

A sales associate talks with a prospective buyer of a Cooper SE electric vehicle on the showroom floor of a Mini dealership July 7, 2022, in Highlands Ranch, Colo. The surprise deal by Senate Democrats on a pared-down bill to support families, boost infrastructure and fight climate change is likely to jump start sales of electric vehicles. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

Most electric vehicles won’t qualify for federal tax credit

By Tom Krisher - Associated Press

In this June 20, 2018, file photo, Michigan Democratic gubernatorial candidate Shri Thanedar gestures during a debate in Grand Rapids, Mich. Thanedar won Michigan's 13th Congressional Democratic primary on Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022, topping a field of nine candidates in a district that covers most of Detroit and potentially leaving the city next term without Black representation in Congress for the first time since the early 1950s. (Michael Buck/Wood-TV8 via AP, POOL, File)

Primary vote could mean no Black Detroit member in Congress

By Corey Williams - Associated Press

Patrick Cantlay plays from the third tee during the third round of the British Open golf championship on the Old Course at St. Andrews, Scotland, Saturday July 16, 2022. The Rocket Mortgage Classic in Detroit features five of the top 20 players, a field that appears to be stronger than the one at the Golf series this week in New Jersey. Cantlay (No. 4) leads five players from the top 20 in the world. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File) **FILE**

Shot at FedEx Cup playoffs drives top players to Motor City event

By Larry Lage - Associated Press

This photo shows Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa in Washington on July 26, 1959. (AP Photo/File) **FILE**

FBI: No sign of Jimmy Hoffa under New Jersey bridge

By Ed White - Associated Press

FILE - Carlos Santana performs at the BottleRock Napa Valley Music Festival in Napa, Calif., on May 26, 2019. Santana, 74, collapsed on stage during a show in Michigan and was rushed to a hospital, later blaming the episode on forgetting to eat or drink water. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)

Carlos Santana postpones some concerts after health scare

Associated Press

Detroit Tigers' Kody Clemens rounds the bases after hitting a three-run home run against he Arizona Diamondbacks during the sixth inning of a baseball game, Saturday, June 25, 2022, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Clemens’ first career homer lifts Tigers over D-Backs 6-3

By Scott Bordow - Associated Press

FILE - Grand Rapids Police Officer Christopher Schurr stops to talk with a resident, on Aug. 12, 2015, in Grand Rapids, Mich. Schurr, charged with second-degree murder in the death of Patrick Lyoya, a Black man who was shot in the back of the head in April, has been fired, officials said Wednesday, June 15, 2022. (Emily Rose Bennett/The Grand Rapids Press via AP, File)

Michigan cop charged with murder in Lyoya’s death is fired

By Ed White - Associated Press

In this file photo, an election work in Clackamas County, Oregon, uses a purple maker to transfer votes from a spoiled ballot to a fresh one so the ball can be scanned in Oregon City, Oregon, on Wednesday, May 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus) **FILE**

Republicans beef up cadre of poll workers in Democratic strongholds in ‘election integrity’ effort

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Former Hall of Fame player and coach Bob Lanier, spokesman for NBA's TeamUp, announces that balloting has begun for the NBA All-Star Game to be played in Oakland in February 2000 Monday, Nov. 15, 1999, in Oakland, Calif. Bob Lanier, the left-handed big man who muscled up beside the likes of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as one of the NBA’s top players of the 1970s, died Tuesday, May 10, 2022. He was 73.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File) **FILE**

NBA legend, Hall of Fame center Bob Lanier dies at 73

By Noah Trister - Associated Press

Detroit Pistons guard Cade Cunningham passes around Washington Wizards center Kristaps Porzingis during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Friday, March 25, 2022, in Detroit. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Porzingis has 30 points and 10 rebounds, Wizards top Pistons

By Dave Hogg - Associated Press

Washington Wizards guard Raul Neto (19) goes to the basket past Detroit Pistons guard Cade Cunningham (2) as forward Saddiq Bey (41) watches during the first half of an NBA basketball game, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Nick Wass)

Wizards beat Pistons for 14th straight time at home

By Noah Trister - Associated Press

Trucks heading to Canada are stuck in heavy traffic after they were diverted to the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, Mich., Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, after the Ambassador Bridge was closed due to Canadian anti-vaccine protests. (Mandi Wright/Detroit Free Press via AP)

Biden administration urges Canada to use federal powers to end trucker blockade

By Rob Gillies and Tom Krisher - Associated Press

Trucks heading to Canada are stuck in heavy traffic after they were diverted to the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, Mich., Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, after the Ambassador Bridge was closed due to Canadian anti-vaccine protests. (Mandi Wright/Detroit Free Press via AP)

Canada trucker blockade shuts down Ford plant

By Rob Gillies and Tom Krisher - Associated Press

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rises during an emergency debate in the House of Commons on the situation in Ottawa, as a protest against COVID-19 restrictions that has been marked by gridlock and the sound of truck horns continues into its second week, in Ottawa, Ontario, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)

Justin Trudeau stands firm on COVID restrictions amid Canada truck protests

By Rob Gillies - Associated Press

Exterior view of the Michigan Central train depot, shown May 23, 2019, in Detroit. Ford Motor Co. announced Friday, Feb. 4, 2022, that Google is joining the automaker's effort to transform a once-dilapidated Detroit train station into a research hub focused on electric and self-driving vehicles. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, file)

Google to work with Ford on Detroit research hub

By Corey Williams and Mike Householder - Associated Press

Green Bay Packers kicker Mason Crosby (2) kicks the game winning field goal from the hold of Corey Bojorquez during the second half of an NFL football game against the San Francisco 49ers in Santa Clara, Calif., Sunday, Sept. 26, 2021. The Packers and 49er meet Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022.(AP Photo/Jed Jacobsohn, File) ** FILE**

Packers set for 49ers rematch after winning September thriller

By Steve Megargee - Associated Press