Ypsilanti News

Two women were rescued from the Huron River in Ypsilanti after their raft was damaged at about 2 p.m. Friday, according to the Ypsilanti Fire Department.

The Washtenaw County Sheriffa TMs Office is investigating a series of overnight break-ins and thefts at area school buildings.

An Ypsilanti man on Wednesday told police he was robbed at gunpoint while walking home Monday night, according to authorities.

According to a police report, the fire rescue was on route in response for a call for service at 28451 Ford to assist a 14-year-old bicyclist who was struck by a truck.

By a narrow margin, the Ypsilanti City Council passed an ordinance on first reading Tuesday allowing residents to keep up to four chickens in their back yards.

The trial for a Detroit man accused of fatally stabbing his half-brother during an argument in Ypsilanti last year is underway in Washtenaw County Circuit Court.

Poor conditions of Ann Arbor's runway led to change Sunday, July 05, 2009 Pilots who carried air mail to the Ann Arbor City Airport in 1929 complained of the unfavorable conditions there for landing planes.

Abdi Gure isn't an American citizen, but his wife and children are. And he loves this country.

Pitssfield Township police are looking for the man who broke into two homes over the weekend and then used the homeowner's stolen credit cards on a shopping spree.

The Lake Shore Family Festival at the Lake Shore Apartments in Ypsilanti Township continues today through Sunday with carnival rides, a petting zoo, circus acts, stage entertainment and more.

An Ypsilanti Township man was shot by Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department deputies early Sunday morning after allegedly shooting his mother and setting her house fire.

Police in Canton Township have arrested two suspects in a string of home invasions in that community.

Fireworks explode over Hudson Mills Metropark near Dexter in July 2006. On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was approved by the Continental Congress, setting the 13 colonies on the road to freedom as a sovereign nation.

When Uvon Bevins petitioned a Washtenaw County court for a personal protection order against her adult son in late 2000, she feared for her life.

Sometime this fall, the Ypsilanti school district will become the second Washtenaw County district to officially be operating under a state-mandated deficit elimination plan.

State Rep. Alma Wheeler Smith has officially launched her Democratic gubernatorial campaign.

Washtenaw County Sheriff's deputies shot and killed an armed man who was spotted walking out of a blazing house where the man's 66-year-old mother was found dead shortly after midnight Sunday.

A 43-year-old Ypsilanti Township man shot his mother to death and then set her home ablaze before being killed himself minutes later by police responding to the scene, authorities said.

Washtenaw County authorities say sheriff's deputies fatally shot an armed man after he left a burning house with a woman's body inside.

YPSILANTI TWP., Mich. -- A 43-year-old man and his mother are dead and a Washtenaw County sheriff's deputy is on paid administrative leave after a fire that lead to a shooting early Sunday morning.