Harper Woods News

Mother of three Mary Martinez was ousted from a Target store in Michigan earlier this month, after she began breastfeeding her hungry 4-week-old daughter in the electronics section.

A Harper Woods judge ruled Friday that therea s enough evidence for Highland Parks former emergency financial manager Arthur Blackwell to go to trial on embezzlement charges.

Highland Park's former emergency financial manager will stand trial on charges he misappropriated money from the small Detroit enclave.

Grosse Pointe Woods -- A volunteer bookkeeper at a Grosse Pointe Woods church pleaded guilty Friday to four counts of embezzlement charges that could result in up to 15 years in prison.

School districts will get good news from the state: a $127 per pupil cut in state aid won't occur.

On Dec. 2, there was a hearing in Lansing in the House Judiciary Committee on bill HB 5515 that I attended.

Events Grand opening William and Sandra Sneed of Farmington Hills announce the grand opening of their new boutique, The Accessories Box, located in Eastland Shopping Center in Harper Woods.

East Hills Middle School is hosting a toy drive to brighten the holidays for young patients at Children's Hospital in Detroit.

ST. CLAIR -- A few people rode in style Thursday for some holiday shopping. Local antique dealers teamed to organize an Antique Mall Crawl across the Blue Water Area, but business started off slow.

While Mary Martinez was shopping in a Target store in Harper Woods, Mich., recently, her 4-week-old baby got hungry.

Mothers who nurse their babies in public ought to have the same protection from discrimination as lots of other people who have a state law on their side.

Police are searching for a robber who pulled a gun on an 87-year-old man, demanded all of his money and then assaulted him.

A man who reportedly had his face painted with black makeup robbed a Harper Woods man at gunpoint in the victim's driveway Wednesday after the victim returned home from a Detroit casino, police said.

A dog was killed Friday in Grosse Pointe by what his owner said was a coyote. Alger LaHood said he let his 10-year-old Cavalier King Charles spaniel, Dickens, out just after 5 a.m. "Eight minutes, 10 minutes later, I realized he didn't come back to the door.

A woman says she was kicked out of a Detroit area Target store because she was breast-feeding her child in the electronics aisle.

Harper Woods -- A woman says she was kicked out of a Target store because she was breast-feeding her child in the electronics section.

Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed off on the last of this year's state budgets last week, avoiding, for now, a government shutdown.

More and more suburban communities are jumping on the technology bandwagon as a means to get information to residents in the quickest way possible.

Two Detroit Public Schools employees accused of stealing money from the district were sentenced this month to probation and ordered to pay restitution.

Sometimes, you've got to take good news where you can find it. If it weren't for the crummy state of the economy, we wouldn't have Becky Fixel's fabulous pillows.