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Woman is third Macomb County resident charged this year after child finds a...

For the third time this year, a Macomb County adult has been charged with violating the safe storage of firearms law after a child under their care found a gun and shot themselves. In the latest...

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Man admits guilt in 2015 fraud case in Shelby Twp.

A Rochester Hills man who was apprehended by Shelby Township police early this year on a nine-year old warrant pleaded guilty last week to two felony fraud charges. Steve John, 39, entered pleas in...

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Police: Teen suspected of stealing $100K in products from weed store

A 15-year-old is accused of stealing marijuana and other items valued in excess of $100,000 from a Royal Oak cannabis store during a break-in last Saturday and is a suspect in other recent crimes,...

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Case advances against Southfield woman accused of killing her friend’s child

The case against a Southfield woman accused of killing her friend’s young child in Detroit has advanced following a preliminary examination. Iesha Harris, 30, is charged with felony murder and...

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Waterford woman admits to killing White Lake motorcyclist

A Waterford Township woman accused of killing a motorcyclist in a drunk driving crash in Pontiac last year has pleaded guilty as charged. Jessica Lenore Kellar, 30, entered her plea this week in...

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‘Incredible sacrifice’: Sheriff honors Detroiter who died saving co-worker’s...

A Detroiter who drowned in Oakland County after diving into a lake to save his coworker’s life has been posthumously honored as a hero. Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard on Wednesday presented a...

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Wayne County man accused of selling stolen Home Depot equipment, including...

Jonathan Allen, 33, of Ecorse, was arraigned Aug. 6 before Magistrate Steven R. Worpell in 80th District Court in the mid-Michigan town of Harrison on four felony charges for allegedly stealing and...

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Detroiter accused of Farmington Hills shooting to have preliminary exam

A Detroit man accused of trying to kill a Farmington Hills man by shooting him last month is scheduled for a preliminary exam in September, where a judge will determine if there’s probable cause for...

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Prosecutor: ‘Horrific’ abuse: Murder, other charges filed against Madison...

A Madison Heights couple is accused of severely abusing a 6-year-old boy — including beating him repeatedly and stapling him to a wall — leading to his death on July 31. The child’s mother, Elaina Rose...

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Police: Taylor woman’s stolen vehicle ran out of gas, ending multi-city chase

It’s not everyday you wake up inside a recently-stolen vehicle to the police knocking on a window, but for Ryann Parkes, that’s exactly what happened July 5, according to police. Eastpointe Detective...

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Commerce Township man set for court after March explosion in Clinton Township

Four months after a smoke shop exploded in Clinton Township and killed one pedestrian, the Oakland County businessman who owned the store due in court later this month. Remnants of the blast at Goo...

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Authorities: Dispatchers hear man tell girlfriend ‘game over’ before he...

A former Macomb County man told his live-in girlfriend, “Game over,” then bolted seconds before he fatally shot her in the head Friday night in their home Oregon Township in Lapeer County, according to...

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State officials say pool of crime victims, compensation received have risen

An expansion of the Crime Victim Compensation program means the number of crime victims and amount of money they have received in Michigan has increased significantly in the past year. State officials...

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Sheriff’s office quashed review of emergency response to Oxford school shooting

The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office declined to participate in a third-party review of its department’s response to the 2021 Oxford High School attack as recently as January, county officials confirmed...

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Life-saving crews dispatched late to Oxford school shooting, fire chiefs say

Leaders of two Michigan fire departments allege the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office was late to dispatch EMS crews to the 2021 Oxford High School attack, prompting victims’ families to renew calls for...

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Sentence handed to man who had sex with 13-year-old runaway

A White Lake Township man was sentenced to prison Thursday for having sex with a 13-year-old runaway from Waterford Township. At a hearing in Oakland County Circuit Court, Judge Martha Anderson told...

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Nearly $3K in stolen clothing recovered in Bloomfield Township

Three men were jailed last Saturday in connection with the theft of nearly $3,000 in merchandise from Dick’s Sporting Goods in Bloomfield Township, officials said. The Bloomfield Township Police...

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Sheriff: ‘Disturbing sexual predator;’ Rochester Hills doctor accused of...

A Rochester Hills internal medicine doctor is facing 10 felony charges for allegedly recording nude images of unsuspecting women and children for at least the past six years. Dr. Oumair Aejaz, 40, held...

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Deputies rescue autistic teen trapped in mucky marsh in Oakland County

A teenager with autism missing for three hours was rescued Tuesday from a marshy area of Proud Lake State Recreation Area by deputies from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office, officials said. The...

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Pleas, trial set for cases against suspected members of international crime...

Trial is set in Oakland County for one of several men from South America and Mexico accused of breaking into a Troy home earlier this month as part of an alleged international crime ring. Two others...

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