Ypsilanti News

Pitssfield Township police are looking for the man who broke into two homes over the weekend and then used the homeowner's stolen credit cards on a shopping spree.

The Lake Shore Family Festival at the Lake Shore Apartments in Ypsilanti Township continues today through Sunday with carnival rides, a petting zoo, circus acts, stage entertainment and more.

An Ypsilanti Township man was shot by Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department deputies early Sunday morning after allegedly shooting his mother and setting her house fire.

Police in Canton Township have arrested two suspects in a string of home invasions in that community.

Fireworks explode over Hudson Mills Metropark near Dexter in July 2006. On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress, setting the 13 colonies on the road to freedom as a sovereign nation.

When Uvon Bevins petitioned a Washtenaw County court for a personal protection order against her adult son in late 2000, she feared for her life.

Sometime this fall, the Ypsilanti school district will become the second Washtenaw County district to officially be operating under a state-mandated deficit elimination plan.

State Rep. Alma Wheeler Smith has officially launched her Democratic gubernatorial campaign.

Washtenaw County Sheriff's deputies shot and killed an armed man who was spotted walking out of a blazing house where the man's 66-year-old mother was found dead shortly after midnight Sunday.

A 43-year-old Ypsilanti Township man shot his mother to death and then set her home ablaze before being killed himself minutes later by police responding to the scene, authorities said.

Washtenaw County authorities say sheriff's deputies fatally shot an armed man after he left a burning house with a woman's body inside.

YPSILANTI TWP., Mich. -- A 43-year-old man and his mother are dead and a Washtenaw County sheriff's deputy is on paid administrative leave after a fire that lead to a shooting early Sunday morning.

For a moment, it appeared to be over. The unknown man challenging Cornelius Wilson's younger brother to a confrontation over a dispute involving their respective friends lowered the assault rifle and the yelling stopped.

State Rep. Alma Wheeler Smith, the long-time Ypsilanti-area Democrat, has announced that she is running for governor, according to a news release sent to The Ann Arbor News.

After nine months of searching, Ypsilanti Township officials have finally hired a new fire chief to replace former chief Larry Morabito.

Ypsilanti Township officials only have just one question for General Motors on their decision to close the Willow Run Powertrain plant.

Charles Blackmer was born in Massachusetts, and created new businesses in Milan.

Bill Riney called off his one-man protest, climbing down from his pine tree Tuesday evening after hearing the tree and others in his yard were safe from a chainsaw's blade for the moment.

Schools are not using enough discretion under Michigan's zero-tolerance expulsion law and are disproportionately kicking out black students who ultimately end up behind bars, according to a report from the American Civil Liberties Union.

An arcing power line started a fire that severely damaged a home near the border of the City of Ypsilanti and Ypsilanti Township Monday night, officials said.