Wayne County

Grosse Pointe Shores Wants Out Of Wayne County

Grosse Pointe Patch | Posted 05.16.2012

By Sara Eaton Martin Grosse Pointe Shores residents will be asked in August to vote about whether they would like their city to secede from Wayne C...

Michigan, Detroit and the Fall of the Byzantine Empire

James Melton | Posted 05.19.2012

James Melton

Folks, it's time to just shut up and focus on what's coming at us across that metaphorical Dardanelles Strait. If the walls are breached, it really won't matter whose fault it is or how it happened. We'll all be in a bad way.

Trust Must Be Regained to Move Wayne County Forward

Kevin McNamara | Posted 04.23.2012

Kevin McNamara

Government cannot endure without some form of trust among the elected officials and by the taxpayers who voted for them.

Improve Our Infrastructure, Improve Our Quality of Life

Kevin McNamara | Posted 04.04.2012

Kevin McNamara

Action toward road improvements, as well as accessing funds for vital youth and senior services and our valuable parks system, will greatly improve our quality of life.

Blame for Detroit's Problems Falls on You, the Voter

John K. Bennett | Posted 03.05.2012

John K. Bennett

Go anywhere around the city, in the barbershops, around the water coolers at work and on local talk radio and the discussion regarding where to lay bl...

County Corruption Probe Gains Speed

The Huffington Post | David Sands | Posted 11.15.2011

The federal investigation of corruption in Wayne County government is moving at a brisk pace, according to FBI Special Agent in Charge Andrew Arena. ...

Passenger: I Was Strip-Searched Over My 'Appearance'

AP | JEFF KAROUB | Posted 11.13.2011

DETROIT — An Ohio woman said Tuesday that she endured nearly four hours in police custody that included being forced off an airplane in handcuff...

PHOTOS: It's Woodstock . . . Minus The Sex, Drugs And Rock 'n Roll

Posted 09.12.2011

This festival certainly isn't good, clean fun. A mud festival in Westland, Mich., let kids play dirty on July 12. Children ages 12 and under had a ...

Former Detroit Mayor Could Reduce Prison Time With Boot Camp

AP | DAVID RUNK | Posted 05.25.2011

DETROIT — The Michigan Department of Corrections says imprisoned ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is eligible for a 90-day boot camp program th...

Symbol of Black History on the Auction Block: From the Detroit Stories

Lester Sloan | Posted 05.25.2011

Lester Sloan

Second Baptist Church served as a end-station of the Underground Railroad. The announcement of the pending foreclosure for back taxes was akin to putting an important symbol of Black History on the auction block.