Despite having a footprint of roughly seven square miles, there’s a lot packed into this Oakland County

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.

The roof on Madison High School hadn’t been replaced since 1997, but patchwork was done over the winter.