Wayne County

DETROIT (AP) — Authorities are still searching for a convicted rapist who escaped from Wayne County sheriff's deputies during a hospital appointment in Detroit. The Wayne County sheriff's office says 45-year-old Willie Wright fled Harper...

DETROIT (AP) — Authorities are searching for a convicted rapist who escaped from Wayne County sheriff's deputies during a hospital appointment in Detroit. The Wayne County sheriff's office says 45-year-old Willie Wright fled from deputies...

DETROIT (AP) — Wayne County sheriff's deputies have arrested a 6-foot-5, 270-pound rapist and attempted murderer in the same hospital where he escaped from custody 30 hours earlier. The sheriff's department says 45-year-old Willie Wright was at...

DETROIT (AP) — A former Michigan high school hockey coach serving a federal sentence for child pornography has pleaded guilty to state charges of sexual assault. Robert Bopp was returned to Wayne County Circuit Court from a federal prison in...

DETROIT (AP) — A former security guard will serve two years in prison for using a gun in the slaying of a man he believed was breaking into his Detroit home. A judge on Friday also sentenced Tigh Croff to three years' probation for manslaughter in...

DETROIT (AP) — A Wayne County jury has made a $12.5 million award in the case of a 14-year-old girl who was molested while restrained in a strait jacket for an ambulance ride between two hospitals in 2006. The jury Wednesday found attendant Matt...

DETROIT (AP) — Jurors typically speak behind closed doors. So is it fair when two challenge a defense lawyer in open court? A federal appeals court has refused to overturn the Detroit drug conviction of a man, even after a juror told the defense,...

Five years after tying the knot with her female partner, Denise Brogan-Kator took great pleasure in describing herself as married when filling out a 2010 U.S. census questionnaire. "It felt empowering ... very authentic," said Brogan-Kator, executive...

DETROIT (AP) — Utility crews are working to restore power to tens of thousands of Michigan homes and businesses after severe thunderstorms hit the southeastern portion of the state over the weekend. The storms on Saturday generated two-inch hail...

Macomb County, Mich. prosecutors in legal documents filed Friday asked a judge to prevent Michael George's defense from presenting one witness to try to discredit its key witness and another witness from making accusations about a potential suspect who...

HOWELL TOWNSHIP (AP) — An experimental single-engine plane crashed into a house Wednesday while trying to land at a small air field in southeastern Michigan, killing both men aboard, authorities said. The crash happened about 7:30 p.m. as the plane...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Republican-led Michigan Senate committee is scheduled to consider new boundaries for districts within the state Legislature. The Senate panel could vote on Republican-drawn maps for the state House and state Senate districts...