Detroit MI

TRENTON, Mich. (WILX) - Gov. Gretchen Whitmer joined legislators and tipped workers at a local restaurant in Trenton to sign a budget bill that eliminates state taxes on tips, overtime pay, and Social Security income. The bill is designed to help working families and seniors keep more of their hard-earned...

Michigan State Police are investigating after a woman was found lying along the shoulder of the eastbound I-96 ramp to Greenfield late Sunday night. Troopers were called to the area around 10:10 p.m. on October 5 after the Detroit Regional Communication Center received reports of a woman on the ramp. When troopers...

Wyandotte Police debut the Grappler, a bumper-mounted net device that stops fleeing cars safely and ends dangerous Michigan police pursuits instantly.

One Michigan couple plead guilty to not only committing a heinous crime against a 7-year-old boy, but filming it. The judge in the case called the boy’s fatal beating “probably the worst thing I’ve seen or heard” in his 18 years of criminal law. Now, the couple just learned their fate.

DETROIT (FOX 2) - A downtown Detroit staple is offering a helping hand to federal employees amid the Washington DC shutdown. The Anchor Bar is offering free meals to all federal employees that go there during the ongoing government shutdown, currently at seven days. To qualify, federal employees need to...

A 9-year-old Detroit boy who prosecutors say died from untreated pneumonia also had multiple broken bones at the time of his death, scars all over his body and was likely in agonizing pain.

DETROIT – Two legal guardians have been charged after a 9-year-old Detroit boy who was allegedly locked away and abused died from untreated pneumonia. Sherman Devaughn Jones, 46, and Sampaguita Jones, 41, both of Detroit, were charged with felony murder, torture, and involuntary manslaughter. Prosecutors said both...

DETROIT – Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, the former U.S. Representative for Michigan’s 13th Congressional District and mother of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, has died. Local 4 got the news of Carolyn’s passing on Tuesday (Oct. 7). Born in Detroit, Carolyn taught in the city’s schools before serving...

Criminal charges are filed against a Detroiter accused of a carjacking where he allegedly ripped the vehicle’s keys from an 83-year-old woman’s hands outside a store in Oakland County on Sunday, officials said. On Monday, the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office announced charges of carjacking and robbery against...

Emergency responders were on the scene, Tuesday afternoon, of a stabbing at a grocery store in Southgate. This happened at the Kroger on Fort St. near Pennsylvania.