Federal judge suspends Michigan’s recount, but challenge not over
The recount in Michigan may be dead.
Drunk driving arrests come back to haunt judge candidate in Dearborn
Just a month before the election, judge candidate Gene Hunt’s law license may be on the line.
Judge ends 11 years of court-ordered oversight of Detroit Police Department
It’s a remarkable step for a police department that was under fire after cops killed nearly 50 people between 1995 and 2000. At least six were unarmed and shot in the back.
Judge dismisses sexual assault charges against former Tigers pitcher Reed
Evan Reed walked out of court wondering how he ever got charged.
FBI investigating Detroit cops accused of stealing drug evidence, cash
The unit is accused of improperly gaining search warrants for an untold number of houses and marijuana dispensaries, where money and drugs were seized and never logged.
State: Boy found in basement was abused over grueling workouts
State authorities plan to urge a judge today to terminate the parental rights of the father of a 12-year-old boy who was found barricaded in the basement of his Detroit home days after disappearing last month.
Drug mule sentenced to 3 years in prison on 90th birthday
Leo Sharp was hoping his age and dementia would keep him out of prison.
Medical marijuana mom faces another custody battle for supporting pot
Maria Green has been barred from seeing her son because her ex-husband claims she belongs to a separatist group – that is, a legal pot advocacy group.
Dec. 11, 1931: Myron Hastings Wahls, an activist, journalist & judge, is born
Wahls also was a musician, wrote for the Michigan Chronicle and helped blacks vote in the South.
Get it while you can: Scavenging the remains of Detroit
This isn’t the 1967 riots. There’s no smoke or soot billowing into the air, but Detroit is still being looted by desperate people.