Redford News

The first of Redford's Concert in the Park series was forced inside by the threat of bad weather.

A man who was breaking up with his girlfriend will spend 68 months to 20 years in prison for a shooting that erupted as he was helping her move out of his house in Redford.

Two suspects who police say brazenly shoplifted merchandise from several CVS pharmacies have helped police identify two Detroit merchants now charged with buying, and presumably reselling, merchandise stolen in Redford.

Area firefighters can now train with live fires. The Livonia Fire Department recently opened a new $160,000 training facility on Glendale east of Farmington Road.

People, businesses and service clubs from across Dearborn and beyond recently came together to provide a much-needed helping hand to a man paralyzed following a traffic incident, and his family.

When the temperature nears 90 degrees this early in the summer, the best place to be is in the water.

The South Redford School District is among those in which black students are disciplined more often and more harshly than their white counterparts, according to a study released by the Michigan Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

If you have information that leads to the arrest of anyone charged with arson in Redford Township, the fire inspector has a $5,000 check waiting for you.

Brian Godfrey and his father, Bruce believe Ford is on the rise. "In my mind there is no doubt that Ford has already become the dominant domestic automaker," said Brian Godfrey Wednesday.

Police are continuing their search for a suspect in the shooting of a Redford man who was wounded on the porch of his home on Riverdale last October.

Some would call it work. But the Diane and Andrew Warner family considers it vacation.

Redford's 4th annual Doggie-Rama is Satuday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Redford Township Ice Arena, 12200 Beech Daly Road.

It looks like they got the message. Convenience stores, gasoline stations and other retail outlets appear to be complying with township and state laws prohibiting the sale tobacco products to people 17 or younger, according to the compliance test conducted by Redford police Wednesday.

Dig outhouses? Tony Panepucci does. The privy historian will excavate at Hill House, the 1850s farm house located at Greenmead Historical Park, during the Livonia Garden Walk, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, June 27.

Redford Union senior Danny Scola is the first recipient of Juley and John Novak Scholarship that pays partial tuition at the University of Michigan.

REDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - A 66-year-old woman was carjacked at the Mobil Gas Station on Plymouth and East Telegraph roads in Redford Township Thursday morning, police said Surveillance video captured the man struggling with the Redford Township woman before driving away in her red 2003 Mercury Mountaineer with license plate No.

Redford police today were checking security tapes for clues they hope will identify the shoplifting operation that has been plaguing the township and possibly other communities.

Merrill McArdle couldn't imagine doing her job without help. As a kindergarten teacher at South Redford's Fisher Elementary, she is responsible for establishing a learning foundation for two dozen students that is supposed last a lifetime.

When Joseph S. Jones was born, some physicians and educators suggested he might be better off in an institution, remembered his mother, Betsy McRae, then Betsy Jones, a single mom.

Camp Swoosh, a day camp for children ages 6-11, will be held 10 weeks this summer at the Livonia Community Recreation Center.