Allen Park News

Mayor William Wild will open the reconstructed intersection at Warren and Newburgh Roads at 10 a.m. Wednesday.

Why not get turkey trottin' a weekend early? The season kicks into official gear tonight when the Wayne County Lightfest celebrates its grand opening, guaranteed to dazzle with 4 1/2 miles of twinkling lights along Hines Drive starting in Westland.

The 2008 Christmas parade brought out young and old to welcome Santa Claus. photo by File photo .

Belle Tire, which has 80 locations across Michigan and Ohio, is offering advanced training for its technicians.

A Veterans Day thank-you idea that started several years ago has ballooned this year into a wide array of complimentary food offers for veterans and, in some cases, active-duty personnel.

A rendering of the $146 million Unity Studios campus in the Detroit suburb of Allen Park.

Longtime Detroit music photographer Thomas Weschler will discuss the photo history book, 'Travelin' Man: On the Road and Behind the Scenes with Bob Seger' at 7 p.m. Thursday at Barnes & Noble, 3120 Fairlane Drive, Allen Park.

This week's photo of U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood testifying at a Senate hearing about ways to combat distracted driving drew 132 replies, a favorite being "Can you hear me now?" Our favorites follow.

USMC Lt. Col. Michael Murray, left, a grandnephew of John Kelly, salutes as other family members remember their relative at a graveside service recently at Rosedale Memorial Park in Tallmadge Township.

The stars of the Extreme Monster Truck Nationals are raucous and rebellious, and they'll jump over -- or plow through -- just about anything in their way.

Actors Nathan West and Ashley Jordan prepare to shoot a scene during the filming of "Alleged" in downtown Flint in September.

Thousands seeking the first wave of southeast Michigan's public doses of the H1N1, or swine flu, vaccine flooded clinic sites in Oakland and Wayne counties Saturday.

Jimmy Lifton, left, and other officials broke ground on the Unity Studios film studio project in August.

Two motorists were taken to a hospital Wednesday after their cars hit the back of a Wayne County roads division truck pulling an arrow on I-94 telling drivers to move over.

Two motorists are in area hospitals today after their cars plowed into the back of a Wayne County Roads truck pulling an arrow on I-94 telling drivers to move over.

A record marijuana bust on I-94 in Berrien County Thursday. Michigan State Police Sergeant Linda Shinsky says that around one in the afternoon, a commercial truck was stopped on eastbound 94 near the New Buffalo weigh station, around mile marker two: Listen: That translates to nearly three-million-700 thousand dollars' worth of marijuana: Listen: ...

Mary Ellen Dunleavy, a longtime bookkeeper for the City of Allen Park and union founder, died Saturday after a long illness at Angela Hospice of Livonia.

Irvin Hall looks over the newspaper at home in Allen Park, Mich. Hall, a former tradesman at an auto assembly plant near Detroit, retired seven years ago, thinking he had his future planned out.

If Michigan legislators were less concerned with trying to insure re-election and more focused on addressing the common good, these annual budget fiascoes could be avoided.

When you hear that retirement isn't what it used to be, a first thought might be of active senior citizens traveling the globe instead of sitting in rocking chairs.