Michigan

ANN ARBOR — The effort to remove the city of Ann Arbor from DTE Energy Co.'s service territory was inspired by city leaders' ambitious 2019 commitment to eliminate Ann Arbor's carbon emissions by 2030. But what started as a movement to address climate change in a progressive, well-heeled community has evolved into an unprecedented effort to wrest electric service from a business and political powerhouse and into a symbol of Michigan residents' frustration with rising energy prices, power outages

DETROIT — A U.S. Postal worker who was attacked by four men while making his rounds Oct. 7 suffered a gunshot wound that grazed his skull, causing profuse bleeding, according to a federal court filing. The eight-page affidavit to support a criminal complaint against the four defendants, filed Oct. 9 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, contradicts earlier reports that the postal worker was not hit by the single shot that was fired at about 5 p.m. near the intersection

Construction barrels, deer, broken-down cars. Michigan drivers expect those. A plane on the shoulder of I-69 is another story, and thankfully no injuries were reported.

Cynthia Miller, the wife of Detroit Lions play-by-play announcer Dan Miller, died Saturday, Oct. 10, at age 63, according to an obituary by L.J. Griffith Funeral Home. The couple met while the former Cynthia Biondi was a radio producer at the Westwood One Network, and were married 33 years, the memorial said. Mrs. Miller was a staple at Lions games, and could be found sitting in the fifth row behind the team's bench, the funeral home said. Jason Benetti, the play-by-play announcer for the Detroi

Hezam Hussein, a 19-year-old Dearborn man, parked his car on the right shoulder of southbound M-10 near Nine Mile Road in Southfield late Saturday, October 3, and walked across all lanes of the Lodge Freeway to help a woman whose car had been left disabled in the left lanes after a hit-and-run crash. He never made it back. A driver later struck him, and he died at the scene.

A Michigan probate court trusted TriState Guardian Services to manage the affairs of people who could not manage them. Federal prosecutors say the company’s owner, Kijuana Evans, 54, of Clinton Township, and a manager took their money. An indictment announced Oct. 1 accuses them of keeping $180,000 from the sale of a ward’s home and […]

HOLLY, Mich. – Walk inside Andy’s Place in Holly on Saturday, you’ll see a new looking space and a proclamation from the county marking the day. The beloved restaurant is now marking a new chapter in its storied history. “The food, the service, the people,” Zane Sleiman,...

Michigan State Spartans head coach Pat Fitzgerald got a little carried away during Sunday’s game against the Illinois Fighting Illini.  A fired-up Fitzgerald was caught on camera seemingly flipping the bird while celebrating on the sidelines in the fourth quarter at Spartan Stadium in East Lansing, Michigan. Here is the video of an animated Fitzgerald … The post Video catches Pat Fitzgerald making a vulgar gesture during game against Illinois appeared first on Larry Brown Sports .

Loved ones said, "Goodbye," Saturday to a man who investigators said died trying to get away from ICE.

What started four years ago as a labor of love for their autistic son, has expanded into a full on neighborhood bash each year. Neighbors at 1280 and 1288 Electric Street in Wyandotte have an ever growing display of animatronics and other Halloween horrors that is all free for the neighborhood to enjoy. The display started to help show off the love of horror for one of their children, and expanded every year until it got too big for a single yard to contain, so the neighbors pitched in. The disp