Washtenaw County News

Ken Brock looks out of the horse barn at the historic Staebler Farm that the Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation Commission purchased on Plymouth Road.

Lyle Benson stands with his children, Matt, 14, and Bethany, 10, near an unfinished basement in the Whispering Meadows subdivision in Ypsilanti Township.

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.

A Jackson man has been sentenced to a year in jail after pleading no contest to striking and killing an emergency medical technician who was helping a stranded motorist during snowy weather.

A 1 1/2 -mile section of Interstate 94 in Washtenaw County has been shut down after a vehicle headed the wrong way on eastbound lanes and crashed into several vehicles, police said.

This past Sunday wrapped up the 25th anniversary of the Showcase of New and Remodeled Homes.

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.

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.

Construction is wrapping up on a 1.5-mile stretch of Interstate 75 in southwest Detroit that has been closed for more than a year.

The Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department has arrested a man wanted as a suspect in the shooting of a woman in a Superior Township party store's parking lot.

YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, Mich. - 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.

Flint police said they apprehended a convicted murder Tuesday after he was accidentally released from state custody.

Susan Mire doesn't want to pay higher taxes. But she doesn't want to see more cuts coming to her daughter's middle school.

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 will officially launch her Democratic gubernatorial campaign next week.

The Washtenaw Community Health Organization has appointed Patrick Barrie as its new executive director.

It was chaos on some metro Detroit waterways as rescue crews were forced to come to the aid of at least four stranded boaters.

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.