Canton News

A Canton man is facing a preliminary hearing Friday on charges of felonious assault involving a police officer and operating a vehicle while impaired, third offense.

Canton amateur photographer Richard Rich was working in his front yard on a beautiful autumn afternoon when he noticed a group of unusual visitors across the street in the Franklin Palmer Estates subdivision where he lives, near Palmer and Morton Taylor.

A judge should decide next month whether to grant a new trial to a Plymouth Township teen convicted of stabbing and beheading an acquaintance.

Crimes of the Heart The Spotlight Players will perform the Pulitzer Prize winning drama "Crimes of the Heart," and for the first time will use the intimate Biltmore Studio Theater that features a thrust stage, allowing for an intimate "in your lap" experience for theater goers.

Adrienne Davis doesn't want to be known solely as the first African-American to be elected to the Plymouth-Canton Community Schools Board of Education.

A Canton church that started as a small group meeting in Alex Rahill's back yard in 2002 has grown into an 800-member congregation worshipping inside a 21,000-square-foot brick building near the northwest corner of Haggerty and Warren.

See what candidates think, pages A4-A5 Plymouth's voters - some of them, anyway - will head to the polls Tuesday to elect four people to the Plymouth City Commission.

'Rent' benefit Destination Theatre presents Rent, Jonathan Larson's Pulitzer-prize winning Broadway musical based loosely on Puccini's opera La Boheme, at the Village Theater at Cherry Hill, 50400 Cherry Hill, in Canton.

A man fatally shot by police just after he held up a Plymouth Township cell phone store at gunpoint was responsible for at least three other armed robberies in Canton, police said.

Police shot and killed a 45-year-old Canton man who investigators say tried to rob a Plymouth Township Verizon cellular phone store at gunpoint Thursday, and police are investigating another shooting that happened at 11 p.m. in Inkster.

A robbery suspect was killed and a Plymouth Township police officer was wounded when gunfire erupted as plainclothes officers tried to arrest the man after the holdup of a cell phone retailer Thursday.

Ford Road has been divided into seven color-coded districts to help visitors navigate the busy road and its many businesses.

"Around Canton" is designed to announce upcoming events taking place in the community.

Most Canton families agree that it's a fabulous time of year to go outside and appreciate autumn's colorful palette.

In a move to rein in outside attorney fees and streamline legal functions, Canton's elected officials have created a new managerial-level position similar to what some communities already have in place.

BY DIANE HANSON CORRESPONDENT Eighteen high school marching bands from southeast Michigan converged on the P-CEP home gridiron Saturday for a spectacular and talented display of choreography and color, along with masterful music and marching at the Great Lakes Invitational, an annual competition hosted by the Plymouth-Canton Marching Band and ...

"Around Canton" is designed to announce upcoming events taking place in the community.

Reeling public schools suffered another body blow Thursday when Gov. Jennifer Granholm ordered an additional cut of $127 per student.

Socked by declining revenues, Canton officials expect to dip into the township's budget surplus, ditch local road projects and leave several jobs vacant in 2010 as they move cautiously toward a new spending blueprint.

Michael Fortier Canada needs to enlist its allies in the U.S. to fight Buy American A United Auto Workers union member shows off his 'Buy American - Buy Union' tattoo in Canton, Mich, on June 2, 2009.