MACOMB TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Authorities have suspended a search for remains of missing girls after digging last week in suburban Detroit. Warren police Commissioner Bill Dwyer tells WWJ-AM “items of interest” were found. Details weren’t released. He says family members of missing ...
PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say a weekend shooting outside a nightclub in suburban Detroit left three people wounded. The Oakland County sheriff’s office says deputies responded early Sunday to Vogue Nightclub in Pontiac after a person in the club was asked to leave and threatened to ...
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — AAA Michigan says average gas prices statewide have risen 2 cents from a week ago to about $2.72 per gallon. The Dearborn-based auto club said Monday the average price for self-serve regular unleaded is about 23 cents less than a year ago and could be at the lowest ...
By DAVID EGGERT Associated Press LANSING (AP) — A new lawsuit challenges Michigan’s requirement that lawyers pay full dues to the State Bar, alleging it violates their constitutional rights to free speech and association in the wake of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that prohibits ...
By NICK BUCKLEY Battle Creek Enquirer AP Member Exchange BATTLE CREEK— Henry and Pat Jones were visiting Michigan to see family and tour the state’s casino circuit. Earlier this month, the Florida couple made a stop at FireKeepers Casino, which was celebrating its 10-year ...
DETROIT (AP) — A 65-year-old Michigan man who was granted clemency after serving 45 years in prison for murder says everyone is capable of redemption. Abner Hines, who is black, and four other men robbed a store in 1974. All of them were armed, and one of the other men shot and killed the ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Police in Michigan’s second-largest city won’t ask for a person’s immigration status when responding to 911 calls or providing services unless it’s an important part of a criminal investigation. Grand Rapids announced the policy last week, months after an ...
GLADWIN, Mich. (AP) — Tips from suspicious anglers helped Michigan officers bust a scofflaw who illegally took more than 1,400 panfish from Lake Lancer in Gladwin County. The state Department of Natural Resources says it recently received numerous complaints about a man who frequented the ...
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — A former Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo employee has been indicted on a federal wire fraud charge after allegedly defrauding immigrants she was supposed to be assisting. Federal prosecutors contend that Monica Karina Mazei engaged in a scheme between 2015 and this year ...
DETROIT (AP)— A man was charged Thursday in the death of a 9-year-old Detroit girl, who was mauled by three dogs despite rescue efforts by neighbors, her father and emergency workers. Pierre Cleveland, 33, was charged with second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter and having a dangerous ...
ALLEGAN (AP) — A priest wrapped a teen boy in plastic and tape and left him in a janitor’s room for more than an hour at a Michigan church, prosecutors alleged Thursday as they filed a charge of false imprisonment. The alleged incident occurred in 2013. But the attorney general’s office, ...
LANSING (AP) — The Michigan Republican Party sued Thursday to block the formation of a commission to draw congressional and legislative lines in 2021, saying the voter-approved change is unconstitutional because there will be no reliable way to verify the panel’s political makeup. The ...
BUCHANAN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Murder charges have been filed against the driver of a car that ran past a stop sign in southwestern Michigan and slammed into another vehicle, killing four. The Berrien County Prosecutor’s Office announced Tuesday that Dub Alan Collins of Buchanan was ...
LANSING (AP) — The embattled director of Michigan’s civil rights department has taken a leave of absence, weeks after he was reprimanded for making inappropriate remarks about the appearance of a woman he saw outside a meeting. The state Civil Rights Commission on Tuesday gave no reason ...
DETROIT (AP) — A man was in police custody Tuesday in connection with the death of a 9-year-old girl in Detroit who was mauled by three dogs despite efforts by neighbors and her own “heartbroken” father, who lamented that “she was gone when I reached her.” Emma Hernandez was riding ...
DETROIT (AP) — Michigan State Police say troopers had to give a driver in the Detroit area four doses of an overdose-reversal drug to revive him after he purportedly ingested heroin on his way home. The Detroit Free Press cites state police as saying troopers responded to calls of a ...
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Eirran Betka-Pope was on her lunch break when she spotted hundreds of Donald Trump supporters protesting outside the office of Rep. Justin Amash, the first Republican on Capitol Hill to say Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against the president. The ...
LANSING (AP) — The state of Michigan has created rules so there are testing standards for the first crop of industrial hemp. The state launched a pilot program this year allowing for the growing and processing of hemp. The state's Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on Thursday ...
LANSING (AP) — Michigan's unemployment rate has edged higher in July to 4.3% from 4.2% a month earlier. Figures released Wednesday by the Michigan Department of Technology, Management & Budget show total employment edged up by 1,000 while the number of jobless workers increased slightly ...
DETROIT (AP) — Regardless of her reputation as a performer, Aretha Franklin’s cancer doctors say she was no diva as a patient. As the anniversary of her death approached, two of her doctors told The Associated Press that the Queen of Soul handled the diagnosis and treatment with grace — ...