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Suneel Gupta, 11th Congressional District candidate, has released his first television ad titled, "Gupta vs. Trump". The ad highlights a few of the differences between Gupta and President Donald Trump. Gupta said, if elected, he will fight to take the country back from Trump. "This ad tells the story of how I've used innovation and technology to help solve the real health care challenges people face every day, while Donald Trump wants to cut Medicare by over $500 billion," said Gupta.

An outdoor recreational event in Southfield has been canceled for Monday evening, July 16, due to inclement weather.The Southfield Parks & Recreation Department was to host Park*It @ the Burgh family event and outdoor movie at the Burgh Historical Park at 6 p.m.Heavy rain and thunderstorms are in the forecast.

A man described as white and approximately 30 years old wearing a medical mask to hide his face is suspected of committing an armed robbery at the Mobil gas station in the 2000 block of E. Highland Road early Monday morning.According to the Oakland County Sheriff's Office, the man came into the business at around 1:16 a.

A town hall meeting has been set for later this month to discuss Waterford Township's special assessment to fund its police and fire departments. The proposal will be on the ballot for the upcoming primary election on Tuesday, Aug. 7. If passed, it would levy up to 2.95 mills on all real property in the township not exempt from taxes for 12 years.

A search continues for a swimmer suspected of drowning in White Lake on Sunday afternoon.As of Monday at 2:30 p.m., divers from the Oakland County Sheriff's dive team were still trying to find the 55-year-old Hartland man. According to the sheriff's office, the man's wife said he had been swimming around and beneath a pontoon boat in White Lake near the residential area of Seven Harbors in Highland Township when he went under the boat at failed to surface.

The Oakland County Farmers Market and the Michigan State University Extension Master Gardener Program invite kids to learn how bean plants grow, while making a necklace. The Beany Necklace program will take place at the Farmers Market on Saturday, July 21 from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. This children's activity is available on a drop-in basis, as long as kids are accompanied a parent.

A baby girl chimpanzee was born at the Detroit Zoo on World Chimpanzee Day over the weekend.Weighing 4 pounds, she was born shortly after midnight Saturday and named Jane, in honor of Jane Goodall, the renowned primatologist and anthropologist.World Chimpanzee Day recognizes the day in 1960 that Goodall first arrived in what is now Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania to study chimpanzees, zoo officials said.

A GoFundMe account is available to help the mother of a 14-year-old Pontiac boy, shot to death July 9 at a home on Willard Street in Pontiac.Yaharre Stennis reportedly died when a gun that was stored beneath a mattress he was sitting on accidentally fired, and a bullet hit him in the chest.

Warm up the week before the Woodward Dream Cruise with the Clawson Lions Club's 20th annual Down on Main Street Car Show on August 11.Admission to the annual show is free, with the opportunity to check out more than 400 entries of antique cars, muscle cars, trucks, street rods, bicycles and more.

Downtown Ferndale is ready to start its summertime free outdoor movie offerings for the season on Thursday."We keep getting bigger crowds every year," said Cindy Willcock, deputy director of the city's Downtown Development Authority which organizes the movies-under-the stars program. Hundreds of people turn out for the family event, hosted on Vester Street, just east of Woodward and a block north of Nine Mile Road.