A Monroe County woman scratched her lottery ticket before work one morning and “turned green” when she realized she had won a $500,000 prize.

Metro Detroit’s cool weekend will soon be both cool and wet.

Live spotted lanternflies, invasive insects hailing from east Asia, were recently discovered in Metro Detroit.

A 59-year-old woman from Temperance says that she was attacked in Monroe County over the summer and she believes it was racially motivated.

Michigan State Police are investigating a crash in Monroe County that killed a 19-year-old Ottawa Lake woman.

As of the time I am writing this, Saline in southern Washtenaw County is at 29 degrees (-1.5 degrees Celsius), while Lambertville near the state line is at 44 degrees (6.5 degrees Celsius)! Helping the cause is some sunshine, which will help push temps easily into the mid to upper 60s (19 to 20 degrees Celsius). Today’s record high is 70 degrees (21 degrees Celsius) set in 1925, so we’ll be close! Mostly sunny and breezy on Friday, with highs in the low to mid 50s (11 to 12 degrees Celsius). Highs generally in the mid 40s (7 to 8 degrees Celsius), and lows Saturday night in the mid 20s (-3 degrees Celsius).

Police say the victim, Lambertville resident Nathan James Mahrt, was driving a silver 2020 Nissan 370Z southbound on Douglas Road north of Summerfield Road when the crash happened. MONROE COUNTY, Mich. – A 35-year-old man was killed in a single vehicle crash that happened on Summerfield east of Douglas in Bedford Township at around 3:46 a.m. Saturday. Police say the victim, Lambertville resident Nathan James Mahrt, was driving a silver 2020 Nissan 370Z southbound on Douglas north of Summerfield. While he was making a turn in the area the Nissan went off the roadway to the south. Police say speeding was a contributing factor in the crash.

TOLEDO – The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a string of crimes after a two-state police pursuit Saturday night. Just after 5 p.m., a Monroe County Sheriff’s deputy in Lambertville, just north of Toledo, was informed by a citizen of a damaged black Impala parked at a Rite Aid Pharmacy located near the intersection of Secor and Sterns roads. Deputies pursued the suspect southbound into Toledo, where they turned the pursuit over to the Toledo Police Department, who took the man into custody. He is currently lodged at the Lucas County Jail, pending extradition to Michigan for face charges of armed robbery, felonious assault and more. Anyone with further information regarding this incident is asked to contact the Monroe County Sheriffs Office Detective Bureau at 734-240-7530.

BEDFORD TOWNSHIP, Mich. – A retired fire chief from Bedford Township and a mother of four from Lambertville died in a multiple-car crash on Wednesday afternoon. The man is in critical condition and his wife is in stable condition, police said. Her four children were transported to the hospital and listed in stable condition, officials said. The driver of the third vehicle, a 61-year-old man from Lambertville, was transported to the hospital and listed in stable condition. Officials say it is unknown if excessive speed, alcohol or intoxicating substances were a factor in the crash.

CNNTEMPERANCE, Michigan (CNN) - The teams at Bedford Junior High School in Temperance, Michigan, call themselves the Broncos. They may need to change their name to the Gators after one was found living in a pond behind the school. The school had posted multiple notices urging students and staffers to steer clear of the pond until the alligator was safely removed. The body of water is called the Biology Pond and is used by both junior and senior high school classes for academic study, the school said. "It got loose or somebody let it loose -- one or the other," Indian Park Zoo owner Joe Garverick told WTVG.