The crew from Whiskey in the Jar won the wet and wild 2025 Hamtramck Yacht Races as revelers lined Jos Campau Avenue and hurled tens of thousands of water balloons at racers – and each other – to celebrate Labor Day.
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M.L. Elrick,
Freep.com,
2 Sep. 2025
Ignited when Detroit’s nearly all-white police force arrested several Black revelers at an after-hours drinking club in the early morning on July 23, 1967, the riot triggered a devastating period of violence in the city that left 43 people dead and millions of dollars in property destroyed.
As churches hold religious services this weekend, celebrants across the country are wrestling with how to help their congregations cope with and make sense of the tragedy at the Annunciation Church.
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Marc Ramirez,
USA Today,
1 Sep. 2025
Cops have arrested three of the illicit synagogue celebrants and were looking for the fourth, police said.
The couple and the engagement partiers went to two Lower Broadway honky-tonks, one owned by country star Luke Combs, the other by Morgan Wallen, to celebrate.
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Brad Schmitt,
Nashville Tennessean,
28 Aug. 2025
Hopefully, there will also be time to explain what happened to all of Chris’ naked partiers.
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