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Kathy Crawford finally moved back into her Dexter Township home last week, following months of repairs from the damage caused by a tornado that ripped off half her roof, her chimney and much of her siding. "I had a great experience -- in the context," she said Wednesday, standing outside on hard-hit Noble Street in the Huron Farms subdivision.
Twenty months ago, police officers took Tia Skinner to jail. Just 17, she knew she was facing life in prison for plotting the attack that killed her father and critically injured her mother.
Who should pick up the $650,000 bill for a special election to fill U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter's vacant seat for six weeks?
A man was shot and killed early today in an apparent robbery and carjacking outside a coney island restaurant on Detroit's east side.
A man is dead after being shot while riding his bike in Ecorse, according to police.
Detroit police and Michigan Humane Society investigators raided a home in Detroit on Wednesday where a man thought to be a Detroit rapper showed off dogs and roosters apparently used for fighting. The collection of animals was featured in an online video that went viral this week. The man in the video was identified by some people as the rapper known as Young Calicoe.
HAVANA, Ill. — As scientists aboard a research boat activate an electric current, the calm Illinois River transforms into a roiling, silvery mass. Asian carp by the dozen hurtle from the water as if shot from a gun, soaring in graceful arcs before plunging beneath the surface with splashes resembling tiny geysers.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Wednesday it is evaluating a congressional mandate -- written by two Michigan lawmakers and signed into law by the president last week -- to devise a plan for blocking Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes at Chicago and more than a dozen other potential entry points.
A wreath-laying ceremony is planned this weekend in West Michigan in honor of former President Gerald Ford.
In between active duty deployments, U.S. Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Matthew Leach worked at Wujek-Calcaterra & Sons Funeral Home, where he greeted mourners and helped set flowers. He was also a member of the Army Reserve Funeral Honors Team, attending 273 military funerals since joining the team in May 2010.
The dispute over a proposed repeal of Michigan's beefed-up emergency manager law will go before the state Supreme Court on July 25 to settle a pair of questions: Did the group Stand Up For Democracy, which collected 203,000 signatures to put the issue before voters in November, use the wrong font size in the heading of its petition?
Mayor Dave Bing said Wednesday that he remains frustrated with Detroit's lead city attorney after a judge refused to reconsider a ruling that tossed out the attorney's challenge to the city's consent agreement.
Bobby Ferguson asked a federal judge Wednesday to postpone his retrial on bid-rigging charges until after his upcoming public corruption trial wraps up. The retrial had been scheduled for Aug. 21. But Ferguson's lawyer says that's too soon, because Ferguson goes on trial Sept. 6 in a public corruption case that includes an "exceptionally voluminous amount of discovery."
An Oxford Village psychologist can't explain why he got up early one morning in May 2011, walked down the hallway to his daughter's room and beat her into a coma with a baseball bat as she slept. Megan Robert, 20, died a few months later at a local hospital.
Joseph Gentz's attorney and prosecutors are expected to start negotiating a plea agreement now that a court-approved independent evaluation deemed him competent to stand trial, echoing the results of an earlier evaluation by the state forensic center.
Detroit city lawyer Valerie Colbert-Osamuede's 90-day suspension for ethical violations in the Kwame Kilpatrick text message scandal needs recalibration, the state Attorney Discipline Board was told Wednesday. It was too harsh and based on errant findings, argued her attorney, Brian Einhorn.
From performing karaoke to competing in dance and pie-eating contests, the young and young-at-heart flooded Belle Isle on Wednesday for the 30th annual Metro Detroit Youth Day.
Eastern Michigan University President Susan Martin will seek counseling, she announced Wednesday, a day after it was revealed that university regents had warned her to curtail her drinking in public or risk being fired.
WYANDOTTE A 25-year-old Wyandotte woman was talking to her boyfriend on a cell phone about committing suicide when she was hit by a train and died Wednesday morning, police said.
HIGHLAND PARK The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan said it will announce today what it described as a groundbreaking lawsuit on behalf of students and families in the Highland Park School District.
Jury deliberations are to resume today in the trial of an 18-year-old who was arrested on charges of carrying a loaded M1 rifle as he walked through downtown Birmingham in April. Sean Combs, 18, is charged with brandishing a firearm in public and disturbing the peace. A third charge of obstructing a police officer was dismissed Wednesday.
Residents and public officials impacted by the Dexter-area tornado in March have advice for those affected by future twisters. Multiple people said this week that it's imperative for homeowners to avoid immediately signing long-term contracts to rebuild. Dexter Village Manager Donna Dettling said signing off to have a roof covered or windows boarded right away is OK.
Hundreds of swimmers head into the Detroit River at Belle Isle for the annual Motor City Mile, sponsored by Different Strokes Swim Shop. The money raised at Wednesday's competition will be donated to the LIVESTRONG foundation, which raises funds and awareness about cancer.
JACKSON, Mich. — A woman admits she kept the dead body of her companion in their southern Michigan house but says it was for months, not more than a year as police believe.
An Ingham County Judge has again rejected the effort by Detroit’s top city lawyer to fight the fiscal stability agreement as a violation of state law and Detroit’s city charter.
The federal government says it has busted yet another Medicare fraud scheme in Metro Detroit, this time involving two West Bloomfield residents accused of bilking millions from the government for home health care services.
Police said after developing leads from citizens and surveillance, the trailer containing the classic Ford roadster, together valued around $30,000, was found in an industrial area in Detroit near Mt. Elliot and Gratiot. The car was undamaged.
The retrial had been scheduled for Aug. 21, but Ferguson’s lawyer says that’s too soon given that Ferguson goes to trial September 6 in a public corruption case that includes an “exceptionally voluminous amount of discovery.”
The court set oral arguments in the case, Stand Up for Democracy v. Board of State Canvassers, for July 25. Stand Up for Democracy initially filed the lawsuit after the canvassers failed to authorize the vote despite the group having collected more than 200,000 petition signatures
The Detroit City Council's controversial practice of putting residents on the stopwatch when they speak at council meetings has sparked a lawsuit.
In between active duty deployments, U.S. Army Reserve Staff Sgt. Matthew Leach worked at Wujek-Calcattera & Sons Funeral Home, where he greeted mourners and helped set flowers. He was also a member of the Army Reserve Funeral Honors Team, attending 273 military funerals since joining the team in May 2010.
Bob Bashara's attorney lost his bid Tuesday to rein in the use of investigative subpoenas by the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office. In a terse one-line order, the Michigan Court of Appeals denied attorney David Griem's request for an order of superintending control.
Jurors in the Bobby Ferguson case say they want to set the record straight: They voted 10-1 to convict him on all but one count in the recent bid-rigging case that ended in a mistrial. The jurors said they want to dispel any perceptions that they were confused or divided, especially on Ferguson.
Jill Babcock says she was expecting to encounter some problems when the State of Michigan reassigned her last fall to work at Cadillac Place, the state office building in the New Center area of Detroit.
The man, who was alert and conscious when he got out, was working on a water line for a private company when he became stuck.
Gentz was previously deemed competent by doctors at the state forensic center. The results of the independent evaluation open the door for Gentz’s attorney, Susan Reed, to talk with prosecutors about a possible plea deal.
The video reportedly featuring Detroit rapper Young Calicoe showed numerous dogs and roosters in cages, and Calicoe made numerous references to some of the animals as “grand champion,” which is lingo for fighting animals.
A woman was talking to her boyfriend on a cell phone about committing suicide when she was hit by a train in Wyandotte and died this morning.
Police say the position of Adaisha Miller's body -- she was on her knees as she danced at a party on Detroit's west side Sunday -- explains how she was shot in the chest when an off-duty Detroit police officer's gun went off. But the young woman's mother said that account is fishy and differs from what she initially heard from witnesses at the hospital.
Oh, you dirty little kids, get out of that mud! Those are words hundreds of youngsters didn't have to worry about hearing Tuesday as metro Detroit celebrated the 25th annual Mud Day at Hines Park in Westland.
In Wayne County, as little as three years on the job was long enough to qualify for lifetime health care benefits for some high-ranking appointees and politicians.
Compared to the bill Detroit's water department sent him after installing a new meter in his home, state Rep. Jimmy Womack got off cheap this week when three guys held him up outside a neighborhood store. The robbers netted $300 in the robbery and attempted carjacking Sunday night at a store on McNichols between Hamilton and Second.
No one, including the defendant, Robert Kelly, could explain why he got up early one morning in May 2011, walked down the hallway to Megan Robert’s room, and beat her into a coma. She died a few months later at a local hospital.
After the last two Eastern Michigan University presidents were forced out under clouds of scandal, current President Susan Martin was seen by many as a stabilizing force on the Ypsilanti campus often roiled by controversy. Then the news broke Tuesday that the university's board warned her in May to curtail her drinking in public or risk being fired.
Lt. Gov. Brian Calley appointed a six-member financial-review team Tuesday to examine the City of Allen Park's finances under state Public Act 4, the emergency manager law. The team includes Deputy State Treasurer Roger Fraser and Frederick Headen, the director of the Michigan Department of Treasury's Local Government Services Bureau.
Speaking at Stroh River Place on Detroit’s east riverfront, the home of the new satellite patent office, the panel held in honor of this week’s opening predicted local engineers and inventors would benefit from face-to-face contact with patent examiners.
The legislator who wrote the new state fireworks law said he wants to create a bipartisan committee to review the legislation after local municipalities expressed concern with enforcement issues. State Rep. Harold Haugh, D-Roseville, said he also wants to reconsider the sale of fireworks from tents and consider providing funding for local municipalities to help with enforcement.
Don’t miss out on the chance to compete for Michigan’s most prestigious workplace honor! Friday is the last day that nominations can be submitted for the 2012 Detroit Free Press Top Workplaces competition.
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is preparing to open a satellite location in Detroit.
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