Wayne News

From Inkster to Wayne to Plymouth, there are plenty of things going on this weekend.

Bob Harris' book includes pictures of the late Michael Jackson and his brothers.

The political positioning has begun in filling the Wayne County sheriff's job left vacant when Warren Evans resigned Monday to become Detroit's police chief.

Wayne County's budget battles have a bad habit of being settled in court. Though the county charter is clear in giving the executive the last word on budget issues, the courts haven't consistently read it that way.

Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper has filed a lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Corrections for what she calls a "blatant refusal to provide ... critical information" regarding 3,000 to 5,000 prisoners slated for early release in October as a cost-saving measure.

Glen Eden Lutheran Memorial Park in Livonia and Macomb Township are contributing $30,000 to 11 Lutheran human service organizations, continuing an annual tradition begun in 1995 that has awarded more than $630,000. "We consider it a privilege to be able to faithfully support valuable organizations that serve the people of the Lutheran community," ...

Buster, the Shitzu, carjacked at the Westland Meijer store, is back home with his owners.

Laura Perlowski is a "Y brat." Growing up in Wheaton, Ill., she took swim classes, baton twirling and gymnastics at the local YMCA, where she also landed her first part-time job.

This summer, area police departments will again be taking extras steps to keep underage party goers from buying or consuming alcohol.

A dog, wheelchair, walker and car are missing, and Westland police are asking for the public's help in finding them.

The Wayne-Westland Community School District is looking to the future, and officials want to ensure they get plenty of feedback from the community.

The U.S. Department of Energy has finally announced the first recipient of low interest loans under its Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Incentive Program.

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 nine communities involved in creating an aerotropolis zone with the potential to create thousands of jobs in the sprawling area between Metro Airport in Romulus and Willow Run Airport in Ypsilanti gathered Wednesday in Taylor to sign off on the deal.

The Michigan Promise Grant, which provides up to $4,000 for eligible college students at state public universities, would be eliminated under a budget approved Tuesday by the Senate committee on higher education funding.

The workforce in Wayne County will be cut drastically because of budget woes, the county commission learned today in opening its annual budget hearings.

Violet Streeter is the go-to person at home, when she volunteers and, most of all, at work.

Better still: Tell me what the 15-member commission and its 40 employees do. Maybe I am being too harsh here, too dismissive.

Some may question the sale of the land that once housed the waste-to-energy incinerator plant in western Wayne County for less than half the price at which it was originally marketed.

The hunt is on for about $160,000 that disappeared after a bag of cash fell from an armored truck onto I-75 about 7:55 a.m. Thursday, officials with the truck company said.