Livingston County News

GREEN OAK TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Authorities say a 15-year-old boy who was ringing doorbells as a prank in Livingston County was shot by a 69-year-old man at one of the homes.

Images of a moving train fully engulfed in flames from the 2005 remake of "War of the Worlds" may have been conjured in the minds of those who saw fire under a CSX train in the Howell area Wednesday.

A 14-year-old Livingston County boy who authorities say led police on a high-speed chase in his father's SUV has received 10 months' probation.

A Detroit man will stand trial after a Livingston County judge heard testimony he stabbed a Marion Township man in the neck with a box cutter during a confrontation.

A Birmingham man was hospitalized Sunday after intentionally sawing off his left hand in the woods at Kensington Metropark on the Oakland-Livingston county line.

For the second straight year, snow plowing and salting on Livingston County's less-traveled state highways will take a backseat to maintenance of major expressways during the winter months.

The Livingston County Wildlife and Conservation Club will deliver home-cooked Thanksgiving meals to homebound seniors in the community on Thanksgiving Day.

Police have identified a 39-year-old homeless man as a suspect in a daytime home invasion that occurred Thursday in Unadilla Township.

As a resident of Hamburg Township, our famous Livingston County has again failed to deal with a service one would expect.

Firefighters from the Howell and Fowlerville fire departments responded, as did Livingston County Ambulance, to a house fire on Layton Road west of Burkhart in Howell Township just after 11:00 p.m. Thursday.

Livingston County laid off its human resources director last week as part of budget reductions scheduled for 2010, and one county official is upset over how it was done.

Livingston County Democrats honored veterans recently at party headquarters in Brighton.

The Livingston County Department of Public Health will indeed offer the H1N1 flu vaccine to people outside high-priority groups this flu season, Director Ted Westmeier said Friday, clarifying comments he made last the week.

A Genoa Township man pleaded guilty Friday to arson charges, including setting a Howell attorney's law office ablaze.

Livingston County Democratic headquarters will be the scene of a special luncheon to honor veterans Saturday, beginning at 11:30 a.m. All veterans, regardless of party affiliation, are invited to attend, said Judy Daubenmier, chair of the Livingston County Democratic Party .

Two men have been found guilty of beating and robbing a then-83-year-old World War II in his Livingston County home.

A suspect wanted for stabbing someone in Livingston County turns himself in to police.

3 in Howell. According to a press release from the Livingston County Sheriff's Department, deputies responded to a home in the Hometown Howell Village subdivision in Marion Township at 5:34 a.m. Nov.

Voters on Tuesday approved tax hikes to pay for police and parks by a 2-1 margin and recalled Clerk Matt Skiba.

Testimony Monday in the trial of two men accused of beating an elderly Genoa Township man during a robbery appeared to further cement the prosecution's case.