Virtual reality changing how professors teach at Eastern Michigan

"Virtual reality is poised to take off," said Professor Michael McVey, EMU Teacher Education Department. "They can just put on their goggles and enter into the virtual space."

Metro Detroit's newest hip-hop star BabyTron on breakthrough verge

Born James Johnson, this 21-year-old’s transformation into BabyTron started at Lincoln High School in Ypsilanti — where he and friends started toying around with rapping and figured they were onto something.

LIST: Michigan inspectors find credit card skimmers hidden in gas pumps across state

Michigan officials recently found credit card skimmers in pumps at gas stations in Belleville, Canton, Ypsilanti, Grandville, Wyoming, Portage, Lansing, and East Lansing.

Black Lives Matter mural in Ypsilanti vandalized over weekend

The sign expressing support for the group had only been on the pavement for a couple of months before white paint was splashed on the letters. A white supremacist group called the Patriot Front tagged itself on the mural.

16-year-old Ypsilanti student raises $15K to help other battling medical debt

"I came across an article of a woman detailing her experience with medical debt," Harshini said. "One thing that stood out to me was that she wished she had never made it out of the hospital, if she knew she’d be paying off debt the rest of her life."