Taylor News

According to Amtrak, Train 353 was traveling westbound when it hit the car. The train is the regularly scheduled outbound train from Pontiac to Chicago.

It might have a new name, but it's still a tradition Downriver. You'll find familiar carnival rides, food and more during the Taylor Summertime Fun Festival, previously called the Meijer Taylor Summer Festival.

How do you evaluate a one-of-a-kind global event like the Michael Jackson memorial service? By looking at the moments that made an impression.

Spending just $1.98 for shipping and handling for a CD to help you find 'free money' through government grants could seem like a pretty good bargain when money is tight.

A standoff has ended peacefully in Romulus. According to Taylor police, officers were attempting to pull over a car on Interstate 94 around 2:30 a.m. on Friday.

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.

NALS of Lansing recently held its annual Awards Night and Installation of Officers dinner.

More than 700 people are expected to gather at Metro Beach Metropark on Saturday for Step Up for Hope 5K Run, Walk & Stroll to benefit Tree of Hope.

People, businesses and service clubs from across Dearborn and beyond recently came together to provide a much-needed helping hand to a man paralyzed following a traffic incident, and his family.

A Michigan Marine serving in Iraq made it to a metro Detroit hospital Monday just in time for the birth of his first son, and he did it without ever leaving his unit.

Why don't they just go ahead and make tobacco illegal? If it were against the law to possess, sell, manufacture or use tobacco, everyone would be better off.

Grosse Pointe Public Schools is relieving Bob Bopp as Grosse Pointe South High School's boys' hockey coach and posting the position after Bopp was charged with multiple counts of sexual assault and child pornography.

Taylor is a Downriver suburb with a mix of housing, shopping and dining choices and industrial areas.

A Flat Rock man is scheduled to be arraigned today in the death of Robert John Hackney whose body was found Tuesday near a creek in Brownstown Township in Monroe County.

From the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office: Today, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym L. Worthy charged Robert Walter Bopp, 51 of Taylor and James Ryan McBee, 19 of Highland in connection with a sexual assault of a 16-year-old Farmington Hills male that occurred in the 9000 block of Oak Street in Taylor from 2007 to 2008.

India.Arie earned her name through her studio recordings, but the 33-year-old singer-songwriter has steadily built a reputation as a top-end live performer: Her graceful, spiritually tinged shows are loosely constructed but enchanting, spanning her body of work and a few tastefully chosen pop covers.

The Brownstown Township man whose body was discovered in a creek Tuesday morning has been identified as 23-year-old Robert John Hackney, police said Wednesday.

Nine local governments are scheduled to sign a contract Wednesday officially forming a regional corporation with plans to develop 60,000 acres of land between Detroit Metro Airport and Willow Run.

Times are so tough that seven upscale downtown businesses, including the Atheneum Hotel, Seldom Blues restaurant and Detroit's Breakfast House & Grill, are struggling to make their loan payments to a city-supported agency.

John Burrows of Taylor has faced the hurdles of a worsening economy. Burrows, 35, recently lost his job at Johnson Controls in Taylor.