Washtenaw County News

A 20-year-old accused of a five-county crime spree pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree home invasion and three other felonies.

Canton police helped catch a pair of men suspected in a tri-county crime spree last week.

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

SALEM TOWNSHIP, Mich. - The Washtenaw County sheriff's department wants to know who made off with more than 200 tons of road salt.

Lima Township officials will make a determination next Monday whether or not to pursue the case of Beach, et al v. Lima Township in the Michigan Supreme Court.

The Department of History, Arts and Libraries and State Historic Preservation Office announced last week the Certified Local Government Grant Awards for 2009.

Nearly 300 pounds of road salt were stolen from the Washtenaw County Road Commission's storage facility in Salem Township within the past week, police reports said.

A Scio Township firefighter has entered into a plea deal with prosecutors on charges that he embezzled more than $150,000 from the Ann Arbor Moose Lodge.

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.

Ken Brock looks out of the horse barn at the historic Staebler Farm that the Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation Commission purchased on Plymouth Road.

Lyle Benson stands with his children, Matt, 14, and Bethany, 10, near an unfinished basement in the Whispering Meadows subdivision in Ypsilanti Township.

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.

A Jackson man has been sentenced to a year in jail after pleading no contest to striking and killing an emergency medical technician who was helping a stranded motorist during snowy weather.

A 1 1/2 -mile section of Interstate 94 in Washtenaw County has been shut down after a vehicle headed the wrong way on eastbound lanes and crashed into several vehicles, police said.

This past Sunday wrapped up the 25th anniversary of the Showcase of New and Remodeled Homes.

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.

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.

Construction is wrapping up on a 1.5-mile stretch of Interstate 75 in southwest Detroit that has been closed for more than a year.

The Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department has arrested a man wanted as a suspect in the shooting of a woman in a Superior Township party store's parking lot.