Wayne County News

Detroit -- A Dearborn Heights man put a contract out on the life of a Wayne County assistant prosecutor who was investigating him for mortgage fraud, according to federal court records unsealed today.

The 18-year-old suspect in Tuesday's shootings of seven teenagers was to be released from custody today because there wasn't enough evidence to charge him with a crime, said county Prosecutor Kym Worthy.

Four area non-profits received Wayne County Neighborhood Stabilization Program grant funds to assist victims of domestic violence, Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano recently announced.

The Detroit City Council voted Tuesday to restore the Department of Administrative Hearings that adjudicates hearings for blight violators in the city.

More homes are broken into during the summer than any other time. So how can you protect your property? JoAnne Purtan has this consumer investigation so you dona t waste your money: It takes just seconds for an intruder to kick in a door and get inside your home.

As national health care reform legislation takes shape, Congressman John Dingell left a meeting today with community health providers in Inkster saying he was armed for a "fresh fight." The Dearborn Democrat warned that in a few decades, the nation's health care costs will exceed the country's gross domestic product.

Six Michigan communities are getting $14 million in federal stimulus money for public transportation system upgrades.

An Aug. 10 trial date has been set for a Livonia man charged with killing a pedestrian in Westland while driving drunk.

The $787 billion in federal stimulus money is supposed to spark the nation's swooning economy and help distressed states like Michigan.

June 26, 2009 -- The Michigan Department of Transportation today announced that bridge crews will be mobilizing to begin an important safety upgrade to the bridge that carries eastbound and westbound M-14 over the Rouge River, located east of Sheldon Road, in Plymouth.

The man whose bloody body was found in an Ecorse bar Wednesday had been stabbed, according to Ecorse Police.

The body of a man believed to be a bar employee was discovered at the Little Joint bar in Ecorse on Wednesday morning.

WHAT: The Michigan Department of Transportation is hosting an open house-style meeting to discuss the proposed intersection improvements at M-153 and US-24 in Dearborn Heights.

Police are looking for the man they say carjacked and sexually assaulted a woman Monday afternoon.

Posted on Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 4:32 p.m. An Oakland County woman who is the reigning Miss Wayne County has been named Miss Michigan for 2009.

Authorities say a drunken, naked Michigan man jumped into a stranger's car and later laid down in the middle of a road before being taken into custody by sheriff's deputies.

Michigan man not long-lost boy No story had Michigan talking like the case of John Robert Barnes.

A Flat Rock man is jailed without bond after being charged in the strangulation and drowning of a man whose body was found by a creek near the victim's home.

A Michigan man accused of killing eight people as a hired hit man talked freely -- even laughed -- when he confessed to police, officers testified Friday as a judge considered whether to toss the statements.

The lawyer for a Detroit-area 19-year-old serving a life sentence for beheading and burning a man says testimony excluded at his 2008 trial could have changed the jury's verdict.