Former Romulus mayor sentenced to 3 years probation for theft, misuse of campaign funds
Former Romulus Mayor LeRoy Burcroff, 59, was handed a significant sentence, three years probation and four months of home confinement, for his serious offenses of stealing and misusing over $15,000 in campaign funds.
Biden joins UAW picket lines in Metro Detroit, a US president 1st
President Joe Biden flew into Metro Detroit on Tuesday to meet with autoworkers striking at Detroitโs Big Three automakers. It was the first known instance of a sitting U.S. president actually joining the picket lines of an active labor strike.
Floods fill tunnels leading to Detroit airport, force water rescues in Ohio and Las Vegas
Heavy rains across the United States have flooded an Ohio highway where people were rescued from their cars, closed a busy airport terminal outside Detroit for a few hours and covered the Las Vegas Strip with water.
21 Metro Detroiters from 14 cities named in doctor-run opioid scheme tied to painful back injections
Twenty-one people from at least 14 different cities in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties have been named in a doctor-run scheme that involved addicted patients and drug dealers agreeing to painful, unnecessary back injections in exchange for opioids, federal officials said.