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The Great Race, a cross-country rally, rolled into Dearborn today as classic cars finished the final leg of the nine-day trek when they arrived at the Henry Ford Museum.
With temperatures soaring into the 90s, the Detroit Fire Department is warning residents about the hazards of illegally opening fire hydrants. The illegal use of hydrants can cause the city to experience dangerously low water pressure. Lack of water and low water pressure can have devastating effects on residents and firefighters alike.
Defense attorney Susan Reed is asking that Bob Bashara’s lawyer David Griem be held in contempt of court for issuing unauthorized subpoenas for the work records of her client, handyman Joe Gentz, who’s accused of killing Bashara’s wife.
A statewide ban on synthetic drugs like K2, Spice and bath salts takes effect Sunday.
Congress had to act by Sunday to keep the interest rates on any new federal-subsidized Stafford loans granted after July 1 from doubling from 3.4% to 6.8%. Projections were that the average student would have had to pay $1,000 more a year.
Anthony Byrd Sr. was in tears Thursday as he questioned why his son, 4-year-old Robert Byrd, died of starvation last year in a cruel case of child abuse at the hands of his aunt and uncle.
The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory that runs through 9 p.m. Saturday as temperatures soar to around 100 degrees around metro Detroit.
Bob Bashara was growing increasingly anxious, prosecutors say. The key witness against him had a court date looming and, at some point, could possibly testify that Bashara hired him to kill his wife in January. So the Grosse Pointe Park businessman went looking for a new hit man, prosecutors allege.
Matilda Brown Gardner, 30, of Highland Park stood before Wayne County Circuit Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway and showed little emotion as she was also sentenced to 225 months to 60 years for torture and 95 months to 15 years for first-degree child abuse.
A Lincoln Park woman who collected welfare benefits despite winning a big lottery prize pleaded no contest to fraud Thursday and likely will be sentenced to probation.
Antoine McDonald recalled Wednesday how he walked into his neighbor's house nearly two years ago to discover a trail of blood leading from the living room to the kitchen and to the basement stairs, where he saw 26-year-old Milah Perry lying at the bottom of the stairs.
After 45 years of providing a home for community activities, Westland's Melvin G. Bailey Recreation Center will close its doors for good Saturday as the city merges its rec department with the neighboring city of Wayne.
Without an agreement from Crittendon not to continue her legal challenge, the bank administering the earlier loan will be required to stop Detroit’s monthly revenue sharing payment to repay the loan.
Ahmed Alabadi, 45, a dual citizen of Iraq and the U.S. pleaded guilty to wire fraud involving multiple victims. Authorities said he sought investments in his company, Fedek Group, Inc., by promising that investors would earn a substantial return, sometimes of up to 100% within one year.
A Detroit-area woman who collected welfare benefits despite winning a lottery prize returns to court for another hearing in her case.
Antoine McDonald’s testimony came on the third day of a trial for Higdon, 55, who was charged with first-degree murder in connection with the stabbing death of Milah Perry on July 12, 2010.
Temperatures are expected to climb into the upper 80s and 90s today and over the next couple of days, but metro Detroit will avoid temperatures over 100 that will plague much of the Midwest, according to the National Weather Service.
Residents in the Hemlock Park area of Dearborn shared mixed feelings at a Tuesday night meeting aimed at informing them about a proposal that could lead to the reopening of a neighborhood pool.
The back-and-forth between Taylor's mayor and City Council over an $8-million federal grant to recall laid-off firefighters continued Tuesday night.
This summer, the Royal Oak fashion boutique, Amor De Moda, will host a charitable fashion show in Campus Martius Park. The downtown Detroit show will be held Saturday, June 30 from 5-7 p.m. Seating will begin at 4 pm.
We blogged live from Kym Worthy's news conference about charges against Bob Bashara this morning; the transcript is below. Bashara will be arraigned this afternoon on charges of soliciting a person to kill a witness in his wife’s murder case.
Bob Bashara is accused of soliciting a man he had prior dealings with and offered him $2,000 to kill a witness in his wife's killing case -- which was caught on tape.
Victor Mercado is seeking his own trial to avoid a guilt-by-association verdict.
During about a two-week period this month, Bob Bashara solicited someone and paid this person to have Gentz, who has been charged in Jane Bashara's death, killed in the jail before a July court hearing, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announced today. Bashara's bond was set at $15 million cash or surety. His preliminary examination is set for July 24.
The suit filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit alleges that the city has been chipping away at health care benefits for retirees “at a time when they are living on fixed incomes and incurring the medical expenses of old age.”
One of the jurors in the Bobby Ferguson bid-rigging trial is speaking out on Facebook, saying there was one holdout on the panel, which voted 10-to-1 to convict on almost all counts.
On Friday, Lamarand vetoed the resolution which passed by a 5-1 vote on June 19. Nearly all City Councilmembers are in support of the resolution designed to address the lay offs of 32 firefighters since August reducing their ranks to 24 on duty.
The bills for Wayne County's troubled pension plan are likely to rise now that it is only 50% funded, according to a preliminary report released Monday.
Many in the Grosse Pointes say they aren’t surprised Bob Bashara is behind bars today, regardless of whether they think he is guilty of any crime.
Kerry Bentivolio, the lucky candidate who ended up as the only Republican on the ballot for the 11th Congressional district because of a petition foul-up by U.S. Rep. Thad McCotter, R-Livonia, is taking no chances and began airing a television ad this week.
Tonio Dace stood quietly before Wayne County Circuit Judge Patricia Fresard on Monday as she ordered him to spend 15-45 years in prison for sexually assaulting three women in March.
A police car was rammed tonight during a chase that started after an armed robbery at a Dearborn Heights store.
About 30 Hemlock Park area residents and city officials gathered at Hemlock Cabin to hear plans for neighborhood homeowners to pay $60-$70 a year for 10 years to reopen the Hemlock Pool, which was one of two pools closed after the 2010 summer season due to city budget cuts.
Authorities have Bob Bashara on tape in the case against him that led to his Monday arrest on a charge of solicitation to murder a witness, a source told the Free Press.
Two more appointees of Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano have applied for retirement under special terms Ficano offered last year. Assistant County Executive Cameron Priebe and Keith Lee, a division director in the department of public services, both applied for retirement. The retirement board agreed to begin processing the applications, despite reservations from two board members.
For the second time in five months, Bob Bashara has been accused of trying to hire a hit man. He was first suspected of hiring Joe Gentz to strangle his wife, Jane Bashara, in January. Now, Bob Bashara is accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill Gentz in jail, a source familiar with the investigation told the Free Press. Bashara's attorney said he's bewildered by the accusation.
Wayne State University hosted Gov. Rick Snyder today as he signed a bill authorizing more than $300 million in spending on Michigan universities.
Local and federal law enforcement officers arrested 70 people — and recovered 6 teenagers — during a three-day crackdown on child prostitution.
"It's due to investment losses, early retirement incentives and other things," actuary Judith Kermans told the board this morning. "It was a very poor year for the plan in general."
Tonio Dace stood quietly before Wayne County Circuit Judge Patricia Fresard today as she ordered him to spend 15 to 45 years in prison for sexually assaulting three women in March.
A woman holding a toddler was shot and killed in Inkster early this morning as she sat inside a parked car outside an abandoned house.
Cameron Priebe and Keith Lee both applied for retirement, the first step in the process. The retirement board agreed to begin processing the applications, despite reservations from two board members.
The debate over cuts to the Plymouth Community Fire Department and other issues is prompting a group of Plymouth Township residents to hold a candidate forum Tuesday.
For years, the inside of the log cabin in Detroit's Palmer Park was seen only by raccoons and other critters that invaded the home dating back more than 125 years. Those tenants were evicted, and the doors of the cabin were opened for a rare showing Sunday, marking the first time since 2001 that the public has been allowed in, officials said.
To cover unfunded health care and pension costs for current and future Wayne County government retirees, every man, woman and child living in the county would have to ante up more than $1,100 over the next 30 years. Or, collectively, $2.1 billion.
Fans flocked to social media outlets to show love for festival.
WAYNE and WESTLAND The cities of Wayne and Westland will share a fire chief under an agreement between the two municipalities and the firefighters union.
Willow Run Airport stopped all commercial passenger service on June 24, 1966. The last flight was a United Airlines Mainliner heading to Chicago. All the major and regional air carriers had relocated to what is now called Detroit Metro Airport, starting in 1958 when American Airlines transferred its flights from Willow Run to the new Romulus airport.
In many residential areas, raccoons are considered pests. But when a baby raccoon got caught in a Dearborn Heights sewer grate, city workers sprang into action to save the animal. Department of Public Works Director Bill Zimmer was in his front yard late Wednesday morning when he noticed the critter. It was stuck head-first in the center of a large iron sewer grate, Zimmer told colleagues.
Wayne County's troubled pension plan got more bad news Thursday when an audit analysis showed it lost an additional $113 million last year. The losses for the year that ended Sept. 30, 2011, continue a downward trend that has shaved more than $300 million off the plan's portfolio since it peaked at about $1 billion in 2007.
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