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The Michigan Department of Transportation said this morning that it will rebuild seven miles of I-96 between Newburgh and Telegraph roads in Livonia and Redford Township starting in early 2014.
Rain will drench the region today before temperatures climb into the 80s by Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.
Police spokeswoman Lt. Renee Bush said Brice Moss’ mother, who is from Detroit, reported him missing Saturday. Police went to his home in the 1000 block of Vaughn and talked with three roommates around 11:30 p.m. Saturday, she said.
Lawrence Technological University named Virinder K. Moudgil as its new president today.
Anti-Islam advocates from across the U.S. gathered Sunday in Dearborn for a conference to bring attention to what they say is a problem of Muslim honor killings. About 150 gathered at the Hyatt in Dearborn for the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference, named after a 20-year-old Arab-American Muslim woman who was killed by her stepfather last year in Warren.
Boaters used to docking their boats and spreading their towels on the white, sandy beaches of Sugar Island, a 30-acre parcel in the lower Detroit River, will see a surprise there this summer: "No trespassing" signs.
Sergio Marchionne made the pledge in a private meeting with Quicken Loans chairman and M-1 Rail backer Dan Gilbert, following a morning event marking Chrysler’s deal to lease two floors of space and move 70 people into the former Dime Building downtown, now renamed Chrysler House.
Besides Bloomfield Hills, there are fewer than a dozen other races scheduled for May 8, most of which are for school districts. In Allen Park, voters will be asked to approve a debt-reduction millage for the Allen Park studio property. The 4 mills would be levied for this year and 2013 only, and go toward the payment of tax bonds. In November, residents turned down a 28-year, 3.3-mill proposal.
The U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee says Chairman Carl Levin and member Jack Reed are visiting Afghanistan, Turkey and NATO headquarters in Belgium. The committee announced on Sunday the trip by the two Democratic lawmakers. Levin is from Michigan and Reed is from Rhode Island.
As a teenager in Watertown, N.Y., Murray Pfaff tried buying a number of classic cars in need of some TLC. Each time, his dad, Eugene Pfaff, discouraged him from taking on such projects so he could stay focused on schoolwork. "He tried to buy an old Cadillac in high school and I said, 'Over my dead body,' " said Eugene Pfaff, 92.
Anti-Islam activists from across the U.S. are in Dearborn today for a conference they say is needed to rescue Muslim women. Called the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference on Honor Killings, it's named after a 20-year-old Muslim woman killed in Warren last year.
More than 1,000 members of evangelical churches from across metro Detroit packed Woodward Avenue on Saturday to participate in the second annual Prayer Walk aimed at helping the city of Detroit.
NOVI An 84-year-old woman died of smoke inhalation Saturday after she was trapped in a condominium fire in Novi, police said. The woman, whose name was not released, was trapped on an upper story of the Enclave of Novi during the fire, Novi police said in a news release. The Novi Fire Department responded to the blaze at 2:20 p.m.
Some superheroes rely on special powers to fight crime, but, according to police, a Sterling Heights man who goes by the name BeeSting carries a gun. And now, Adam Besso, 36, is on the wrong side of the law after the shotgun he was carrying while on patrol in a Burton trailer park discharged during a confrontation with a man with a loud motorcycle, police said.
DETROIT A Wayne County judge who became embroiled in controversy this week for sending a bare-torso photo to a married court employee and bragging about it in an interview with a TV reporter issued an apology Friday for his behavior.
DETROIT More than 100 Detroit students were suspended for up to a week, and one student faces a $500 fine in connection with a march Wednesday where students protested the decision to close Southwestern and the expected merger of two rival high schools.
Detroit-Chicago flight Passengers aboard Delta Flight 3163 were quarantined on the plane for more than 2 hours Thursday when it landed at Chicago's Midway Airport, until health technicians decided that a woman arriving from Uganda was free of deadly monkeypox, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said later.
The number of cyber charter schools could expand from two to as many as 15 under controversial legislation narrowly passed Thursday by the state House. The bill -- which passed on a 56-54 vote -- also would allow the number of students who can enroll in each cyber charter to expand to as many as 10,000 each.
DETROIT Wayne State University officials said Thursday night that a woman who said she was sexually assaulted on campus will be charged with filing a false report after admitting that she made up the story.
A bill introduced by Rep. Cindy Denby, R-Fowlerville, would amend the Emergency Municipal Loan Act to increase the maximum annual loan a financially troubled city could receive to $20 million from $3 million.
Dillon said the consent agreement with Michigan's largest city was written based partly on Public Act 7, the Urban Cooperation Act of 1967 "that provides for interlocal public agency agreements."
The daughter of baseball legend Jackie Robinson stressed a message of tolerance, diversity and positive self-esteem when she visited two schools in metro Detroit on Wednesday.
DETROIT The federal government asked a judge Wednesday to dismiss criminal charges against the last remaining defendant in the Hutaree militia case -- Jacob Ward, 35, of Huron, Ohio. He was one of the nine people arrested in FBI raids in 2010 and charged with plotting an anti-government revolt.
Snyder will answer questions during an online town hall meeting that will stream live today.
A Macomb County jury last month convicted Clark of first-degree murder. A judge on Tuesday sentenced him to the mandatory term of life in prison without parole.
Speaking at a security conference Tuesday in West Bloomfield held by the Jewish community, the head of counterterrorism in Michigan for the FBI said that while there are "Hizballah ... sympathizers here within in the United States," the Lebanese militant group doesn't have any training camps in metro Detroit.
The former emergency manager of Pontiac outlined Tuesday how the state's emergency manager law is destined to fail.
But expect gusty conditions to return on Thursday after rain and thunderstorms move through southeast Michigan tonight, meteorologist Matt Mosteiko said today from the agency's White Lake Township office.
Winning essays by two students who created game plans to change their own lives drew Sharon Robinson to Detroit. The Tampa resident spends six weeks each year visiting nine or 10 student essay winners as part of the “Breaking Barriers: In Sports, In Life” essay contest by Major League Baseball and Scholastic.
DETROIT Responding to cuts detailed in Mayor Dave Bing's proposed budget, Police Chief Ralph Godbee Jr. said Tuesday that he will work to preserve jobs but that concessions will be needed. The proposed budget calls for reducing Police Department spending by 18% and cutting 353 positions through attrition and retirement.
Tanner Cipriano stood before at least 1,500 mourners at his father's funeral day, delivering a heart-breaking eulogy in which he asked for forgiveness for his brother.
A lawyer for Kwame Kilpatrick says his client never rejected an offer to settle his racketeering conspiracy case.
HARTLAND Police said Tuesday that they had identified a Hartland High School student who they say made "perceived threats" Monday about shooting people at the school.
Subway sandwiches and a confidential police informant took center stage today at a court hearing on corruption charges filed against the former Romulus police chief, his wife and five Romulus police officers.
While details of the arrest are not immediately available from police, Catherine Gattari of Grosse Pointe Woods said she saw the man get arrested. She said she saw a picture of the man, who she said was in his 30’s, on Twitter, and came out with friends to see what was going on.
Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Leo Bowman set the trial date for Jeffrey Pyne, 22, who remains in the Oakland County jail without bond.
Joshua Manners was arraigned via video on charges of first-degree murder, three counts of felony murder, first-degree home invasion, felon in possession of a firearm and felony firearm.
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette says Otis Lee Josey was pretending to be a radio station employee in November when he told the child and her mother he was authorized to give restaurant gift cards in exchange for donations to a charity benefiting a children's hospital.
Mayor Dave Bing's top aide Kirk Lewis told the Detroit Regional Chamber's Detroit Business Conference this morning that Bing will return to the mayor's office on Monday, April 30 after recovering from his recent surgery.
The mother of a girl believed to have been slain by the Oakland County Child Killer filed a $100-million lawsuit Monday against the Oakland County prosecutor, sheriff and Michigan State Police investigators, saying they withheld information about the 35-year-old case.
Kelly Helton, 25, of Lenox Township carried a rake down a wood chip path past the barn silo at Special Dreams Farm, a nonprofit for developmentally disabled adults in St. Clair Township. Her cousin and job coach, Lauren Hayter, 23, of Washington Township walked by her side. "Look, air guitar," Hayter joked as she pretended to rock out on her rake. Helton giggled.
Attorney Paul Hughes and his client, Deborah Jarvis, the mother of one of the victims, explained why they filed a $100-million federal lawsuit Monday against Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper, County Sheriff Michael Bouchard and Michigan State Police investigators involved in the unsolved case.
Township A 23-year-old man has been charged in connection with the killings of three people found shot Friday in Redford Township.
They're huge and invasive, they reproduce quickly, eat everything -- and now, they're illegal.
Police say Monday morning they have two people of interest in custody and they were seeking a third person. They also were trying to find Gurski's vehicle.
Representatives from other agencies who can provide assistance will also be on hand, Singer said.
The media decided Mitt Romney would be the inevitable Republican presidential nominee weeks before voters did, according to a report that analyzes race coverage.
Meteorologist Mike Richter of the White Lake Township office blames a low pressure system that formed over the Ohio Valley then picked up strength and moisture from the frigid Atlantic.
Police announced the totals on Monday, including 79 charged under the state's tougher "super drunk" law. Michigan's legal limit is a blood alcohol level of 0.08 percent. The "super drunk" designation is 0.17 percent or more.
Broken glass, discarded clothes, insulation, busted chairs and a shopping cart littered the yards of three abandoned duplexes across the street from Denby High School on Sunday morning . By that afternoon, a few dozen students, staff and volunteers had shown up to remove the garbage and board up the three blighted homes.
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