Plymouth Township News

A 20-year-old Livonia man was arrested on a drug-paraphernalia charge early on June 27 after a Plymouth Township police officer who was checking out a noise complaint found him holding a glass "bong" used for smoking marijuana.

A Plymouth Township man is missing and presumed drowned after his boat drifted from a Lake Erie inlet Monday afternoon as he and a friend swam.

The laundry and mowing can wait. Declare your independence from the mundane and create some fun this holiday weekend.

Lou LaRiche Chevrolet in Plymouth Township, which survived an initial round of dealership cuts by the struggling General Motors Corp., is now fighting to continue selling Chevys for a new, post-bankruptcy, GM.

If the best things in life are free, Plymouth Township's annual Independence Day picnic at Plymouth Township Park ranks right up there.

Plymouth Township As Andy Kauffman sits home all day, he wonders why he became a victim.

An outside patio at Compari's in Plymouth on a balmy spring afternoon was like a magnet to two sisters when they needed a break from shopping.

Career- and community-minded young people in the Plymouth area are reviving one of its many civic groups.

By the time it was over, his passenger was walking home and the driver was jailed on suspicion of possession of marijuana.

Defense attorney Elizabeth Jacobs contends the testimony of Birmingham psychiatrist Gerald Shiener would have been enough for a Wayne County jury to find her client, Plymouth Township teenager Jean Pierre Orlewicz, not guilty in his first-degree murder trial last year.

Three residents, including a school trustee slated to leave her post June 30, have filed applications to be considered for an appointment to the Garden City school board.

The Plymouth Township Police Department features a wide variety of crime prevention tips for township residents.

Fire destroyed a home Tuesday morning in Luzerne County. The blaze broke out along Towers Road in Plymouth Township before 9 a.m. Officials said fighting the fire was tough because tanker trucks had to be called in to bring water to the fire.

The five Lincoln MXKs and three Mercury Mountaineers at Hines Park Lincoln Mercury, on Hines Drive, each had a window broken out, a Plymouth Township Police Department report said.

Plymouth Township Fire Department and Tilbury Volunteer Hose Company, along with several neighboring fire departments, responded to a fire at 15 Towers Road in the Plymouth Village area of Plymouth Township at about 9 a.m. Tuesday.

There were plenty of smiles and probably some tears of happiness last Sunday, as hundreds of Farmington Public School District seniors graduated at Compuware Arena in Plymouth Township.

Michigan State Police have closed westbound M-14 near Sheldon Road as a result of an accident.

Canton's public library has seen a 15.5 percent increase in circulation for the first five months of 2009, compared to similar statistics a year ago, as recession-battered patrons seek out free offerings such as take-home movies, children's books and cable-TV series, officials said.

Three veteran Observer & Eccentric writers and a photographer have been re-assigned to the staff of the Garden City Observer.

Two Detroiters suspected of taking wheel caps from cars in the parking lot of Compuware Arena on Sunday were detained by an off-duty Southfield police officer and arrested on theft charges by Plymouth Township police.