Michigan

President Joe Biden campaigns in Detroit, Michigan, at 6 p.m. ET on July 12.

DETROIT—A shooting early Sunday at a Detroit block party left two people dead and 19 others injured, according to authorities. Michigan State Police said no one was in custody and they were assisting Detroit police with the investigation, according to a post on the social media platform X. The agency said their preliminary information showed […]

Thousands of people in Lansing, Michigan, celebrate Independence Day with a parade at 11 a.m. ET on July 4.

BENTON HARBOR, Mich.—A man pleaded guilty Tuesday in a wild scheme to steal 123 handguns by kidnapping the manager of a Michigan sporting goods store and threatening him at gunpoint to reveal how to turn off the alarm. “Darnell Bishop’s brazen crimes, if successful, would have flooded the streets of Benton Harbor and beyond with […]

DETROIT—A Michigan appeals court revived a lawsuit against Detroit-area paramedics after a woman who had been declared dead gasped for air with her eyes open when a body bag was unzipped at a funeral home. A judge was wrong to dismiss the lawsuit in favor of Southfield paramedics before the parties could conduct interviews and […]

EMPIRE, Mich.—A man convicted of diverting a national park river to ease boat access to Lake Michigan was sentenced Tuesday to probation. Andrew Howard was also banned from National Park Service property during the five-year period, including Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in northern Michigan where the incident occurred, prosecutors said. “Mr. Howard had a […]

DETROIT—A Michigan county sheriff’s deputy was fatally shot while pursing a suspected stolen vehicle in Detroit, the Oakland County sheriff’s office said Sunday. Bradley J. Reckling, who was on duty in an unmarked car, was following a 2022 Chevy Equinox Saturday evening after the vehicle was reported stolen earlier in the day from Red Oaks […]

PONTIAC, Mich.—Two of the nine people wounded in a weekend shooting at a suburban Detroit splash pad remain hospitalized in critical condition Monday, including an 8-year-old boy who has “made amazing progress” despite being shot in the head, authorities said. The child’s 4-year-old brother was shot in the leg, and the boys’ mother was hit […]

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich.—Nine people were injured, including two young children and their mother, after a shooter opened fire at a splash pad in a Detroit suburb where families gathered to escape the summer heat Saturday. Police tracked the shooter to a home, where the man apparently shot himself to death, authorities said. Authorities on Sunday […]

GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Mich.—A mid-Michigan couple and a lawyer from the west side of the state were announced Tuesday as winners of an $842.4 million Powerball lottery jackpot from a ticket purchased on New Year’s Day. The Breakfast Club lottery club opted for a cash lump sum of $305 million after taxes, Michigan Lottery Commissioner […]

DETROIT—A man who for years controlled the finances at a group that has turned Detroit’s riverfront into a popular attraction was charged Wednesday with embezzling tens of millions of dollars. William Smith routinely used money from the Detroit Riverfront Conservancy to pay credit card bills for travel, hotels, limousines, household goods, clothing, and jewelry, according […]

LIVONIA, Mich.—A toddler was killed and his mother was injured when a tornado struck suburban Detroit without warning, while five people were injured when a tornado in Maryland collapsed structures and trapped people inside. Officials in Livonia, Michigan, said the tornado tore through several neighborhoods on Wednesday afternoon and developed so quickly that there was […]

OCEANA COUNTY, Mich.—Police say a Michigan woman was killed when an out-of-control vehicle slammed into her during a drag-racing event, but she was able to push her 2-year-old daughter to safety in the seconds before the crash. The crash happened Sunday at Silver Lake State Park Sand Dunes in western Oceana County, about 270 miles […]

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—Police broke up a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Michigan before dawn Tuesday, citing a threat to public safety and coming less than a week after demonstrators stepped up pressure by placing fake body bags on the lawn of a school official. Officers wearing helmets with face shields cleared approximately 50 people […]

A small town in Michigan has lost its battle with a Chinese battery maker tied to the Chinese Communist Party. A judge gave battery maker Gotion the go-ahead to build a plant in Green Charter Township, Michigan.

Former President Donald Trump rallies at 6:00 p.m. ET on May 1, in Freeland, Michigan, a major battleground.

CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich.—The owner of a suburban Detroit business that caught fire and exploded, killing a man, was arrested at a New York airport as he was preparing to depart for Hong Kong on a one-way ticket, authorities said Friday. U.S. Customs and New York Port Authority personnel arrested Noor Noel Kestou, 31, on Saturday […]