Erika Erickson
Reporter
Erika has been reporting in Michigan since 2010 and is part of The Investigators on Local 4. Send her an email.
Erika has been reporting in Michigan since 2010 and is part of The Investigators on Local 4. Send her an email.
Federal authorities are no longer treating fentanyl like another street drug. They’re treating it like what they say it has become: a weapon of mass destruction.
Three prominent men from Metro Detroit are accused of openly discussing being pedophiles during graphic chats about young boys, according to the FBI.
Three men -- a doctor, an attorney, and a therapist -- from Oakland and Wayne counties are involved in a web of child pornography chats, and some sexually abused young boys, according to federal officials.
Dispatch audio of 911 calls is shedding light on the dramatic downfall of former Michigan Wolverines football coach Sherrone Moore.
Hamtramck’s already-chaotic 2025 election has escalated into a full-scale legal battle, with City Clerk Rana Faraj filing a sweeping lawsuit alleging retaliation, defamation, and violations of Michigan’s Whistleblower Protection Act.
A Michigan woman said she told her psychiatric nurse everything, and that led to the nurse taking advantage of her.
Nearly 15 months after 81-year-old Susan Hammerton was beaten, strangled, and fatally stabbed inside her Pittsfield Township home, her family says they are still fighting for basic information about the case — and for a criminal trial they fear may never happen.
A dive team recently searched a Michigan lake as part of the investigation into a cold case linked to a Canton Township abduction and a Washtenaw County murder.
A Westland woman says the psychiatric nurse practitioner she trusted to guide her through a mental-health crisis in Ann Arbor instead manipulated her into secretly loaning thousands of dollars.
The vice president of Campbell Soup Company has been fired after a secret recording revealed him ranting about “bioengineered meat” and the “poor people” who buy the product.
The father of an Oakland County road worker killed in a July construction-zone crash says he is choosing forgiveness, even as he just begins to grieve the son he calls his “very best friend.”