Belleville News

A string of accidents -- including at least one fatality -- created chaos on area highways Saturday after up to 5 inches of snow coated the region.

According to Canton Police, a 58-year-old woman from Belleville was traveling southbound on 275 near Michigan Avenue when she lost control of her vehicle and hit a cement guard rail.

Three Michigan Court of Appeals judges appeared likely to apply Michigan's priest-penitent privilege Thursday in a criminal case involving a Belleville teen who allegedly admitted to his pastor he had sexually assaulted a 9-year-old girl.

The Michigan Court of Appeals will hear arguments about whether a pastor's testimony related to a possible confession in a child sexual assault case may be used in court.

That's what 41-year-old Linda Edwards tells her 6-year-old daughter Lyndia.A She tells her every night, that life will get better, as long as they don't give up.

When I first learned that a group of local women were planning to open a birth center in the area,... Age 84, Oscoda, MI, formerly of Belleville and Ypsilanti, MI, went to be with her Lord Monday, January 30th, at home with her family.

An 18-year-old man has been charged with making two bomb threats that forced evacuation of the Starbucks coffee shop and Noodles & Co.

The Salvation Army Christmas Fund Raising Campaign for the Northville, Plymouth, Canton and Belleville service area has collected $305,026 - or 96 percent - of its $315,000 Christmas goal for this year, the organization said in a news release.

Since all of the volunteer adult literacy tutors at Westland's William P. Faust Public Library are currently working with students, Kristy Cooper hasn't been trying to recruit more people needing help with their reading skills.

A Know before you go! WWJ's John Bailey said the weekend will be free of major construction complications on local freeways, although a few lane closures will exist.