Plymouth Township News

BY ERIC D. LAWRENCE GANNETT NEWS SERVICE Jean Pierre Orlewicz will have to wait to find out whether a judge will grant him a new trial.

A 16-year-old vandalism suspect was caught by the owner of a house on Hollywood, in Plymouth Township, after a brief foot chase Friday night.

A 50-year-old Pinckney man was hospitalized in a Washtenaw County hospital after a pumpkin thrown from an overpass crashed through his windshield and hit him in the head.

A 50-year-old Pinckney man is in a Ypsilanti hospital today after a pumpkin thrown from an overpass crashed through his windshield and hit him in the head.

Plymouth Police Chief Wayne Carroll is exchanging his badge for a fishing rod and a short-sleeved shirt.

The agony of defeat is sinking in for many candidates Wednesday, including a Luzerne County judge voters refused to retain in the midst of a corruption scandal rocking Luzerne County.

An armed robbery suspect is dead and a Plymouth Township police officer is recovering after cops said they watched the man rob a cellular phone store at gunpoint and tried to arrest him Thursday night, resulting in a shootout.

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.

Plymouth Township -- An officer was wounded and a suspect killed in a shootout following a robbery of a cellular phone store Thursday night.

Plymouth Township Police and the FBI arrested a 32-year-old man on child porn charges.

Michigan State Police said an officer was shot and a suspect was killed during an exchange of gunfire in Plymouth Township Thursday.

Plymouth Township Police are asking for the public's help in the investigation of a man they said admitted sexually assaulting a young child he was babysitting.

Multiple bullets tore the wall of the Verizon store in Plymouth Township, from the shots police say killed a man trying to score some fast cash.

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.

This corner lot on Eckles Road and Ann Arbor Trail in Plymouth Township has been transformed into a cemetery, complete with tombstones, the living dead, the Reaper, a coffin and even a guillotine.

The fire, which apparently put itself out, was outside a house on Chandler Drive, a Plymouth Township Police Department report said.

Dr. Syed Taj became a political trailblazer last year when he became the first India-born candidate ever elected to the Canton Township Board of Trustees.

The City of Plymouth has asked an outside consulting firm to review how the city provides police, fire and emergency medical services to its residents.

The monthly unemployment statistics compiled by the U.S. and state governments reveal only a corner of the jobless picture in Michigan.

Plymouth Township --Michigan State Police at the Metro South Post today identified the victim in a Thursday night fatal crash on M-14, west of Beck Road, as Virginia North, 58, of Ann Arbor.