Why health care has become a top target for cybercriminals
Elise Takahama | (TNS) The Seattle Times When a cyberattack hit Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center late last year and exposed the personal data of nearly a million patients, many were caught off...
View ArticleMan, 80, attacked at YMCA, knocked unconscious
An 80-year-old man was beaten unconscious Friday morning at his gym, and police arrested a suspect after an brief but intense search. Police officers from Farmington Hills were summoned to the...
View ArticleFerndale hit-and-run leads to trial on multiple fraud charges
Nearly a year after warrants were issued on a dozen credit card fraud, identity theft, and driver’s license forgery charges, a Detroit woman was ordered to trial in Oakland County Circuit Court....
View ArticleRoyal Oak police: New York couple caught shoplifting leads to other suspected...
New York couple caught shoplifting may face other charges Police are investigating whether an out-of-state couple arrested for shoplifting at Hollywood Market, 714 N. Main St., are involved in other...
View ArticlePsych exam expected for Hazel Park son accused of trying to murder father
A Hazel Park man charged with assault with intent to murder his father with a knife is set for a competency hearing in Hazel Park 43rd District court next month. Ronnel Best, 22, is jailed on a...
View ArticleJury selection starts Tuesday for father of Oxford school shooter
Trial for the father of Oxford school shooter Ethan Crumbley is scheduled to start Tuesday morning with jury selection in Oakland County Circuit Court. James Crumbley, 47, is charged with four counts...
View ArticleSheriff warns about jury service scam
Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard has issued a warning about a phone scam where the caller falsely claims an arrest warrant has been issued because you’ve missed jury duty. The scammer typically...
View ArticlePolice: Theft of several Stanley mugs, child, neglect, alleged at Dick’s...
Charges are pending for up to 3 suspects in connection with the theft of several Stanley mugs from a Bloomfield Township store, and leaving a young child unattended in a car, police said. According to...
View ArticleYoung man charged in beating of 80-year-old man at YMCA
Oakland County prosecutors have charged a 20-year-old Farmington Hills man in last week’s attack on an 80-year-old man at a family fitness center. According to the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office,...
View ArticleExplosion rocks 15 Mile Road and Groesbeck Hwy. facility in Clinton Twp.
An explosion burst through the roof of a Clinton Township industrial building Monday night, sending shrapnel flying 50 feet in the air that injured two people and ignited a stubborn fire that burned...
View ArticleJames Crumbley is up next as 2nd parent to stand trial in a school shooting
By ED WHITE Associated Press PONTIAC (AP) — A man who purchased a gun with his son four days before an Oakland County school shooting is headed to trial, accused of failing to take steps that could...
View ArticleTeenage bystander killed at Macomb County blast site, fire chief says
After hours of fighting a massive explosion and hours of secondary blasts at a warehouse in Clinton Township, authorities are continuing the process of dealing with the scene while commencing an...
View ArticleClinton Township officials suspect warehouse that exploded was illegal
Clinton Township Supervisor Robert Cannon said during a Tuesday morning press conference a business near 15 Mile Road and Groesbeck Highway that caught fire and exploded Monday night was illegally...
View ArticleWeeks before his retirement, William Dwyer abruptly fired, saying ‘I was...
Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer, who announced last week he was retiring on April 19, was fired by Mayor Lori Stone Tuesday afternoon. Dwyer said City Controller Richard Fox, Chief of Staff...
View ArticleCops: $11,000 in makeup reported stolen from Ulta Beauty; Kroger says man...
Bloomfield Township police are investigating two reported shoplifting incidents that happened recently and have asked the public to share information they might have on the cases. One of the incidents...
View ArticleBurglar smashes into Subway
Someone smashed their way into a Subway store in Bloomfield Township on March 3, finding nothing but coupons in the cash register, police said. It was approximately 8 a.m. on March 3 when police were...
View ArticleVictim of Clinton Twp. vape blast remembered as a ‘joy to be around’
The young man who died after being struck by flying debris in an explosion at a Clinton Township vape supplier is being remembered as an “incredibly dependable and responsible” person. Turner Lee...
View ArticlePontiac man dead following shooting outside motorcycle club
An argument between two men led to one of them fatally shooting the other Tuesday night outside the Night Riders Motorcycle Club in Pontiac, as alleged by the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office. The...
View ArticleJury selected for trial of James Crumbley
PONTIAC (AP) — A jury was seated Wednesday in the trial of a man whose teenage son killed four students at a Michigan high school with a gun purchased by the father four days before the shooting. The...
View ArticleDetroiter accused of raping Pontiac woman to get psych evaluation
An Oakland County judge has ordered a competency evaluation for a Detroiter accused of raping a woman in Pontiac in August 2022. Steve Allen Dener, 51, is charged with three counts of criminal sexual...
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