Detroit MI

A Michigan man who was convicted of murdering a woman has pleaded no contest in connection with four cases involving assault or attempted assault while he was in the Macomb County Jail.

WYANDOTTE — A man jumped out of a vehicle at a stoplight and started pounding his fist on the windshield of a nearby vehicle on Biddle Avenue near Alkali Street the night of March 29 in what the victim said was an unprovoked attack. The attacker tugged on the...

A routine shoplifting stop at a Sterling Heights Walmart ended with prison time for an Eastpointe man, after prosecutors say he tried to stab an officer in the face with a screwdriver during a chaotic arrest in the store’s parking lot. On April 16, 2026, a judge sentenced 32-year-old...

Police say thieves showed up to a car theft in a stolen car, targeting Kias using a hack made popular a few years prior, where they jimmy the ignition switch with a USB cord. But then, in 60 seconds, a drone from Dearborn police was overhead.

Metro Detroit is, to no surprise, at the center of Michigan’s bar scene. The 10 bars with the highest liquor sales in 2025 were all split between Oakland and Wayne counties. The two most populous counties accounted for the highest total sales, and were No. 5 and No. 6 in sales per capita.

BIRMINGHAM, Mich. – Police in at least one Metro Detroit city are cracking down on electronic motorcycles. Birmingham police said they’ve noticed more electronic motorcycles around the city, many times driven by children. "Most of these devices are not only illegal to operate within the city, they also...

Sign up for Chalkbeat Detroit’s free newsletter to keep up with the city’s public school system and Michigan education policy. One yellow bus dropped off several students outside of J.E. Clark Preparatory Academy early Thursday in the Morningside neighborhood. The kids filed into the school through a gothic arched doorway at the front of the large building on Detroit’s east side. The only sounds...

A man was shot behind a business on Detroit’s west side yesterday, sending police racing to Dexter Avenue and neighbors peeking out from behind curtains. The shooting happened around 7:20 p.m. in the 11300 block of Dexter Avenue near Collingwood, according to ClickOnDetroit. Scene And Police Response. Police said...

Michigan State Police are searching for a suspect, or suspects, who fired shots at a church in Oakland County's Royal Oak Township.

A 48-year-old Hamtramck man has been arraigned and charged with kidnapping and assaulting a 16-year-old Hamtramck student on Monday. CBS News reports Donald James Joseph Arthur Fields is being held without bond at the Wayne County Jail. The student was kidnapped at gunpoint from a bus stop and forced into...