After Sunday night, his friend Anthony Johnson messaged: ‘‘Kid struck again tonight. Same lure, too.’’ The magic generally has come on a chartreuse-and-white deep Fat Free Shad crankbait.

Hundreds — perhaps as many as 1,000 according to local media reports — of teens showed up there after posts promoting a teen “meet-up” circulated on social media. The crowds Friday only began to thin ...

“You get that phone call in the middle of the night and your heart jumps out of your chest," Scott Schapiro, the owner of Syd Jerome, a menswear shop at 20 N. Clark St., said.

And that was never more evident than last Friday night when a record 125,000 people came downtown to see Detroit’s tree-lighting ceremony, beating last year’s record of 105,000.