Wayne County News

The following construction activities are scheduled for the weekend beginning Friday, Dec. 6, and ending Monday, Dec. 9. Parade closures are included in the list.

The clock is running on a move to decide whether selling the county's justice center sites to Dan Gilbert's Rock Ventures group and moving to the state-owned Mound Correctional Facility is the best deal for the county going forward.

Wayne County commissioners on Thursday approved spending up to six months to study the viability of housing prisoners at a Mound Road facility.

Ann Arbor -- Two men charged in the shooting death of Eastern Michigan University football player Demarius Reed had their preliminary exams postponed until Jan. 17. Ed Jemeal Thomas, 20, and Kristopher Kaivon Pratt, 19, appeared Thursday morning in 14A-1 District Court.

Stock up on holiday cookies and pastries at the St. Helen's Philoptochos Cookie Walk and Greek Pastry Sale 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Dec. 14, at Sts.

The office, located at 16013 Middlebelt Road, recently celebrated a grand opening with a ribbon cutting by Livonia Mayor Jack Kirksey.

Look for some improvements at most of Redford's parks this spring thanks to money from the Wayne County Parks and Recreation millage.

Clinton Township -- County Executive Mark Hackel took attendees of the third annual State of the County Address through Macomb's many highs of 2013 Wednesday night.

Some of them are nameless remains in morgues across the country. Others may have been buried in anonymous crypts long ago.

Former Michigan secretary of state candidate Jocelyn Benson won't run for Congress in a Republican-leaning suburban Detroit district.

A 30-year repayment schedule is negotiated. Then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick agrees to swap a fixed interest rate for a variable one.

Detroit -- Law enforcement agencies will be collecting DNA samples Tuesday from relatives of missing people in an effort to help identify human remains at the Wayne County morgue.

State Rep. Phil Cavanagh's gratuitous advice to those of us working hard to rework the jail project is misguided and out of touch with where the project and the county are today.

The time of the year for gift-shopping , gatherings with family and friends, and an array of holiday entertainment is upon us.

Mayor-elect Mike Duggan is used to being in the newspapers. Monday he was hawking them for a good cause.

The annual Compassionate Friends candlelight vigil takes place 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8, in downtown Plymouth's Kellogg Park.

Residents pardoned its dust during the late summer and early fall, and now Sheldon Road is completely open for business in Plymouth Township.

The Hearing will be held on Monday, December 16, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. at the Northville City Hall Chambers, 215 W. Main Street, Northville, Michigan 48167 for the purpose of hearing public comments on the Community Development Block Grant Program Year 2014 application in the approximate amount of $50,927 to fund eligible projects.

While communities around the state will be able to designate their fire arson investigator as a police officer under a new state law recently signed by Gov. Rick Snyder, it will have little impact on communities like Garden City.

Thanksgiving is a time for families far and near to get together for a festive meal, a bit of shopping, maybe a movie or a holiday parade.