Wayne County News

The health and dental screenings will be offered free from 12 p.m. - 5 p.m. at Westland City Hall on Ford Road.

Wade McCree takes the stand: Wayne County Circuit Judge Wade McCree on the stand in a case that could cost him his job.

Two of the men who robbed a Speedway gas station in Redford will serve several years in prison after being sentenced last month.

Detroit mayoral candidate Tom Barrow, right, is claiming that Mike Duggan wasn't a resident of Detroit for a year.

The 30-year-old Trenton man accused of killing 29-year-old Brandon Charles in Ypsilanti Township last January appeared briefly Wednesday in the Washtenaw County Trial Court where he had a trial date set for Sept.

Wayne County Commissioner Ilona Varga is accusing the sheriff's department of unfairly favoring one of four vendors providing tethers to the Wayne County Jail in a funding shuffle that could cost taxpayers more than $320,000. Last year, commissioners approved a three-year contract for nearly $5 million for tethers and services.

A Grosse Pointe Park man facing drug charges is believed to be the same man taken into custody in connection with the murder of a 35-year-old woman.

Motorists who drive Haggerty Road between Plymouth and Schoolcraft should allow a little more time for their commutes this spring and summer: The mile-long stretch will be under construction for the next three months.

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.