August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson" deals profoundly with ancestry and heritage, which makes it all the more fitting that the new film adaptation, produced by Denzel Washington and directed by his son Malcolm, is a family affair.

Former President of Madison District Public Schools Board of Education Albert Morrison, 62, was sentenced to 45 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to accepting bribes for a local contractor and tax evasion.

A contractor has admitted that he bribed the former Madison Heights school board president, a “longtime friend,” with hundreds of thousands of dollars so his company could get contracts for $3.1 million worth of projects within the district

A Madison Heights school official is accused of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of bribes from his “longtime friend,” a contractor, in exchange for awarding that man’s company $3.1 million worth of maintenance and construction projects within the district.