Macomb News

The Public Works Department is to collect clothing for the Salvation Army and food for the Macomb Food Program for people in need starting next month.

Macomb County voters made history Tuesday adopting a charter that restructures the county's government under a full-time executive.

A prisoner who tried to escape from the Mt. Clemens Regional Medical Center and threatened a sheriff's deputy with a syringe was fatally shot Thursday.

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Macomb County will lay off six more employees and trimmed $4.9 million from its projected deficit in the upcoming 2010 budget, after its Board of Commissioners' Budget Committee on Wednesday approved another round of cuts.

A proposal to reorganize Macomb County government under a county executive and a smaller board of commissioners appeared on its way to comfortable victory in early election returns Tuesday night.

Macomb County voters took a historic step toward a new form of government, most incumbent mayors held onto their seats and school millage requests fared well across Metro Detroit in suburban elections Tuesday.

Warren police say two people didn't alert authorities and continued to do drugs for two days as a woman's body lay on the floor of a home in the Detroit suburb.

A group of political, business and education leaders is headed to China in hopes of bringing jobs and investment to the financially struggling county.

Voters are to cast ballots Tuesday in these major races: MACOMB Center Line: Councilman David Hanselman faces incumbent Mayor Mary Ann Zielinski for a 4-year term.

People who intend to party over the Halloween weekend better make sure they have designated drivers.

To some, a sole executive at the helm of Macomb County would add accountability, efficiency and a little political muscle to compete with neighboring Oakland and Wayne counties.

Sterling Heights -- An elderly Sterling Heights man was killed Wednesday night when a sport utility vehicle struck his bicycle in Sterling Heights, police said.

The legal entity needed to operate the Oakland-Macomb Interceptor has been created, and representatives of Oakland and Macomb counties and the city of Detroit have officially closed on the sewer interceptor's transfer of ownership from the city to the two counties.

Cars lined up Wednesday in Sterling Heights carrying people hoping to get the H1N1 vaccine, and reportedly the day went very well for all concerned.

A 40-year-old Center Line man was shot dead by police early Wednesday after he pointed a shotgun at them following a physical dispute with his friend and landlord, investigators said.

Macomb and Genesee counties will hold their first community clinics this week to administer the free H1N1 vaccine -- as other local health agencies continue to vaccinate residents.

Citing a shortage of the H1N1 flu vaccine, the Macomb County Public Health Department said Friday it has canceled 140 flu vaccination clinics planned for schools in November.

A city appeals board agreed with a recommendation to demolish a house where hundreds of live and dead Chihuahuas were found last summer.

A former Michigan soldier who lost his right hand when a bomb that he was disarming in Iraq exploded in 2004 has won a $4.3 million judgment against the U.S. Army in a disability discrimination case.