Wayne County

Five years after tying the knot with her female partner, Denise Brogan-Kator took great pleasure in describing herself as married when filling out a 2010 U.S. census questionnaire. "It felt empowering ... very authentic," said Brogan-Kator, executive...

GIBRALTAR, Mich. (AP) — The Wayne County prosecutor has charged a 52-year-old man with mutilation of a dead body, more than a week after a woman's remains were found in a suitcase floating in a creek. James Bommer of Gibraltar was also charged with...

DETROIT (AP) — Criminal charges were dismissed against a Detroit mother accused of firing a shot at police and keeping them at bay outside her home for 12 hours when they tried to remove her 13-year-old daughter. Judge Ronald Giles dismissed the...

LINCOLN PARK, Mich. (AP) — A medical examiner says a 5-year-old Detroit area boy was missing body parts after he was mauled to death last year by a wolf-dog hybrid. The Detroit News reports (http://bit.ly/om1FRA ) that Wayne County medical examiner...

DETROIT (AP) — A robbery of illegal immigrants has exposed sharp differences at the Michigan Supreme Court. Chief Justice Robert Young Jr. broke with the court's conservative bloc and joined three liberal justices in letting a minimum five-year...

DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich. (AP) — Charges have been filed against a second man in the robbery-shooting of a Dearborn Heights man in his house, where his family was at home. The Wayne County prosecutor's office says Amaar Al-Saady faced arraignment...

DETROIT (AP) — Utility crews are working to restore power to tens of thousands of Michigan homes and businesses after severe thunderstorms hit the southeastern portion of the state over the weekend. The storms on Saturday generated two-inch hail...

DETROIT (AP) — Detroit police say a fight broke out among feuding teenagers on the city's west side, and a 13-year-old boy fired into a crowd, wounding two girls. Police spokeswoman Sgt. Eren Stephens tells the Detroit Free Press (http://j.mp/...

DETROIT (AP) — A jury has awarded $705,000 to a nursing home manager who was fired in 2009 after cooperating with a state investigation of patient mistreatment. The Detroit Free Press reports the Wayne County Circuit Court jury on Thursday...

Macomb County, Mich. prosecutors in legal documents filed Friday asked a judge to prevent Michael George's defense from presenting one witness to try to discredit its key witness and another witness from making accusations about a potential suspect who...

DETROIT (AP) — A 49-year-old man will serve one year in the county jail and three years on probation for having inappropriate sexual contact with a coma patient inside her room at a Detroit nursing home. Cornell Lowman was sentenced Thursday on...

HOWELL TOWNSHIP (AP) — An experimental single-engine plane crashed into a house Wednesday while trying to land at a small air field in southeastern Michigan, killing both men aboard, authorities said. The crash happened about 7:30 p.m. as the plane...