By golly, we're already past Groundhog Day; better than halfway to spring. Whatever conclusion the groundhog may have reached about the next six weeks, let us rejoice and be glad with it.

Thursday, February 04, 2010 at 11:26 a.m. Read more: Local , Fire , Department , Grant , Homeland , Security , Michigan The following is a message from U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin : U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin announcedA [Thursday] that 33 Michigan organizations have been awarded a total of $3,006,987 through the ...

The Howell Carnegie District Library had a successful turnout for the premiere of its The Big Read event Sunday, with about 250 people coming out for the celebration of the community reading program.

Award-winning mystery writer Loren Estleman of Whitmore Lake will help the Howell Carnegie District Library kick off its first program of The Big Read on Sunday by revealing the legacy of the program's featured novel: the 1929 classic "The Maltese Falcon" by Dashiell Hammett.

Two Home Health Care workers have been charged with multiple felonies stemming from a series of thefts from a Northville Township family.

The vote is in and the audience at the packed Genesee Intermediate School District Board of Education meeting wasn't happy.

Two Home Health Care workers have been charged with multiple felonies stemming from a series of thefts from a Northville Township family.

State lawmakers on Tuesday recommended fast-tracking proposed construction of a magnetic levitation, or MagLev, train system from Detroit to Lansing - kind of.

Mourners were to say goodbye to Ilene McDonald yesterday. She was a retired school crossing guard at Jefferson Elementary in Redford who was struck and killed by a pickup truck near the same intersection she helped children cross for decades.

The icy water was one thing, but 4 inches of freezing muck underfoot was something else when a dozen daring souls plunged into Whitmore Lake this afternoon in a benefit for the Greater Whitmore Lake Area Kiwanis.

Police informed the school administration and the boy's parents agreed to seek counseling.

A retired school crossing guard was herself struck and killed by a pickup truck within yards of the intersection where she had helped hundreds of youngsters safely cross on their way to and from Jefferson Elementary School in Redford.

Alice Ann Crist Ridenour Whitmore Lake, Michigan Passed over on January 10, 2010.

Local law enforcement once again has been kept busy this morning working numerous crashes and road runoffs due to slick roads.

In a groundbreaking study released Thursday, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that a shocking 27 percent of youth confined in the Shawono Center in Grayland and 23 percent of youth confined in the Maxey Training School in Whitmore Lake report being sexually abused in the past year.

Did the judicial system fail a Whitmore Lake woman who was kidnapped and raped allegedly by a former boyfriend on probation and wearing an electronic monitoring device for assaulting her less than a month before? Livingston County Prosecutor David Morse declined to second-guess the Oakland County judge who ordered the sentence for Brandon Jay ...

On Dec. 12, an Oakland County Sheriff's deputy was patrolling on westbound Grand River near Lyon Center Drive in Lyon Township when he observed a blue Chevy Cavalier weaving between lanes, police said.

A woman missing since a New Year's Day confrontation with the father of her children outside a Green Oak Township restaurant was found injured this morning in northern Michigan, police say.

Walter M. Kent, age 87, of Brighton, formerly of Lansing and Northville, passed away peacefully in Howell December 27, 2009.

Joleen Immerfall of Whitmore Lake has been re-elected to the BlueCaid of Michigan board of directors to represent members of BlueCaid, a state-approved Medicaid health maintenance organization.