Eastpointe News

Detroit -- With a large yellow excavator, one of the thousands of Detroit's abandoned houses came crashing down Thursday afternoon, kicking off a campaign to make neighborhoods safer for children to travel to school.

EASTPOINTE, Mich. -- There have been several reports of bikes being stolen in recent weeks from southern Macomb County communities, which is leaving residents on alert for the so-called "Bike Bandits." Third-grader Johnny Stickey said he isn't taking any chances when it comes to his wheels.

The Mount Clemens City Council will introduce legislation Monday night aimed at dealing with dangerous pets, especially pit bulls.

Waterford To wnship -- Not long ago, the pit bull living across the street from Diane Ross made her afraid to go outside.

The Sixteenth Season of Broadway Onstage Live Theatre, and the Twenty-Ninth Season of Dennis Wickline Productions, opens on Friday, July 24 with a new version of the Renee Taylor/ Joseph Bologna comedy Lovers and Other Strangers.

Soldiers with the 172nd Infantry Brigade train an Iraqi Emergency Response Unit in Babil province Monday.

An Eastpointe teen was sentenced in Macomb Circuit Court today to12 to 180 months in prison for attempting to rape a girl he met on the networking Web site Facebook.com. Michael Thomas Robinson, 19, was charged with second-degree criminal sexual conduct and home invasion in the Dec.

D'wayne Stewart of Eastpointe felt a sense of warmth from Detroit police on Wednesday as he camped out on Belle Isle with his family for the 51st annual Target Fireworks.

Engines revving along Gratiot Avenue have been a constant this week as the city celebrates the 11th annual Cruisin' Gratiot.

Mt. Clemens officials want to regulate pit bull ownership, making the city the third in Macomb County to mull preventive steps aimed at the breed.

Property values are falling and more layoffs are coming for Macomb County as it continues its budget struggle.

The Warren Police Department is offering a $1,000 reward for information about a white car that may have hit and killed a Warren man early Wednesday.

There are disloyalties that we would all agree are betrayals, as when a partner has an affair or lies and deceives us.

No one was injured when a fire broke out on a Utica home the afternoon of June 5 while workers were renovating the house.

Public meetings are scheduled to start next week to discuss proposed fare increases for the region's SMART bus service.

It was 1946, and Gus Guerra was looking for a way to squeeze a little more profit out of the bar he had bought on Conant in Detroit two years earlier.

Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation is holding three public hearings on a proposed fare increase.

Roseville Schools officials are seeking ways to save the district's alternative high school program after it was axed last week due to budget woes.

Police are looking for a man who they believe robbed two CVS pharmacies in the past month.

With schools and businesses closing across metro Detroit, a small group of students at the Roseville Alternative School have been fighting to keep their school open.