Wayne County News

Come this September, Plymouth Township will be home to a newly completed First Responders Memorial for Wayne County police, fire and EMS agencies.

Rachel Collett and her friends Lindsay Wiley, Amber Prong, Angela Bannoura and Renee Johnstone at her graduation ceremony in January 2012.

After reviewing the case sent by Grosse Pointe Shores Department of Public Safety, the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office will not be filing charges against Mayor Pro-Tem Dan Schulte, spokeswoman Maria Miller said Monday.

The National Weather Service has issued a severe thunderstorm watch until 8 p.m. Monday for Wayne County and surrounding areas.

Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Wade McCree, right, sits with his attorney Brian Einhorn and Colleen Burke during a Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission hearing for McCree at Washtenaw Circuit Court in Ann Arbor on Monday, May 20, 2013 in Ann Arbor.

Poverty across the U.S. has moved to the suburbs and Michigan is no exception, according to a study released Monday.

THE SITUATION IN OKLAHOMA. AND FURTHER UPDATES COMING UP ON LOCAL 4 NEWS. IT'S A SEXTING SCANDAL FOR DETROIT, AND THIS TIME A SITTING JUDGE AND HIS MISTRESS.

A neighbor of the Grosse Pointe Park woman found strangled to death in her duplex Thursday said investigators raided his home over the weekend and a relative is in police custody.

As we like to say at Patch, chances are you know something, saw something or think something about your community that your neighbors would love to hear or see.

A judge ruled Friday not to decrease Dylan James Dunlap's $1 million bond in a case of child abuse charges against him.

To most observers, Wayne County Circuit Judge Wade Harper McCree had it all: a top-drawer education, a prestigious career and a family pedigree of accomplishment that goes back at least three generations.

Soichiro "Patrick" and Cynthia Marie Hirami marked their 60th anniversary May 2. The couple wed in 1953 at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Denver, Colo.

Jayna Muir, Tyler Morrison and Kaitlin Robackouski, members of the Liovnia Franklin High School Belcanto Concert Choir, sing, "God Bless America" during the ground-breaking ceremony.

A 20-year-old Grosse Pointe Park man is expected to be arraigned Sunday morning in connection with the attempted firebombing of the home of a prominent local family on Friday.

'In Honor of ALL Fallen Soldiers,' sponsored by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 552 and American Legion Post 67.

In an effort to refocus the Arab International Festival, organizers announced on Friday that the event has been postponed for 2013.

Wayne County motorists mapping out their weekend travel plans can keep the following construction projects in mind, according to the Michigan Department of Transportation: Eastbound and westbound I-94 between Cadieux Road and Conner Avenue will have left lane closures from 9 p.m. Saturday until 8 a.m. Sunday for lighting and sign work.

Home where Sabrina Gianino was found strangled. Her boyfriend found the body and called 911.

This week's It's Just Politics deserves a little running music because we're looking at who's in, who's out, who's thinking of getting in and who's thinking about who's thinking about getting in when it comes to Election 2014.

Come this September, Plymouth Township will be home to a newly completed First Responders Memorial for Wayne County police, fire and EMS agencies at the corner of Hines Drive and Haggerty Road.