Romulus News

Sometimes, elected officials and newspapers share common thoughts. That was the case Tuesday morning, when we called Mayor Alan Lambert to get his opinion on how the corruption probe of Detroit Councilwoman Monica Conyers may have filtered out to the waste injection wells in Romulus.

A standoff with a gunman who barricaded himself in a room at a Detroit airport hotel ended peacefully after he turned himself in to police Friday morning, FOX's WJBK-TV reported.

A police standoff with a gunman threatening suicide ended peacefully about 8:30 a.m. today at a Romulus hotel near the Detroit Metropolitan Airport.

Two defendants accused of a string of home invasions that included northwest Canton are facing court hearings after they were arraigned over the weekend, township police said.

Before U.S. Rep. John Conyers was for a waste injection well in Romulus, he stood with fellow Democratic Rep.

ROMULUS, Mich. - A bad-weather winter has left a runway at Detroit Metropolitan Airport unusable for the summer.

Mr. Mrs. Robert Alan Hewlett III Brooke Lynn Lundquist of South Lyon wed Robert Alan Hewlett III, also of South Lyon, June 21, 2008.

An 85-year-old Romulus man who police say used a hammer to kill his neighbor will remain in jail without bail pending a Wayne County Circuit Court hearing.

The Belleville National Strawberry Festival's Strawberry Idol contest provided as much drama, entertainment and excitement as the television show that inspired it.

You almost had to do a double take, maybe wipe your eyes a few times last Wednesday when leaders from nine Wayne and Washtenaw communities came together to announce that they'll work together -- and even share some costs and revenues -- to get an innovative "airport city" under way in metro Detroit.

The race for city council is starting to heat up in Romulus. The deadline to file for office is 4 p.m. on Tuesday, and elections clerk Rendell Wooden said there is already shaping up to be a primary for the office of mayor and clerk.

In this Sunday, May 3, 2009, photo, Monte Handley, center, attends church with his cousin Howard Fite, left center, and Howard's wife, Pat, far left, at the Woodhaven Bible Church in Woodhaven, Mich.

Nine southeastern Michigan communities are signing on to a plan to create a 60,000-acre "aerotropolis" to lure aviation-related businesses to the area near Detroit Metropolitan Airport.

Three thieves who robbed two metro Detroit McDonald's restaurants supersized their latest robbery Monday morning.

These are the 1902 diaries of a young teen-age girl named Reva Ruthruff . Her great-granddaughter Toni Hunt has graciously allowed up to reprint them.

Romulus officials said they hope they can rescue a long-standing business in the community.

Apocalypse was all business when it was his turn Saturday. Leaning into his harness with all his 74 pounds, the chocolate-colored male pit bull terrier leapt into action at the urging of his owner, breeder Michael Doyle of Lansing.

Thursday, June 04, 2009 ROMULUS, Michigan: The gloomy factory floor of an idled General Motors engine plant and the boarded up shops down the street offered stark reminders of the devastation wrought as the once mighty automaker tumbled into bankruptcy.

There was a collective sigh of relief in Romulus this week when the GM Powertrain plant was not among those to be closed by the automaker as part of the company bankruptcy filing.

Ron Hall has spent 22 years in the home building and remodeling business, none of them as bad as 2008.