Erika Erickson

A Melvindale man is accused of making online threats to shoot and kill federal law enforcement officers -- even allegedly posting the threats publicly across Facebook, Threads and TikTok after a prior search warrant and a warning from agents.

A man linked to a 2021 shooting at a Westland bowling alley has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison.

A mother who says strangers helped get her and her two young daughters to safety during a shooting at Great Lakes Crossing Outlets is asking the public for help finding the two people she and her daughters can’t stop thinking about.

Nearly 100-degree heat didn’t stop East Side Detroiters from gathering in protest, calling on the owners of a newly renovated building on Whittier near Roxbury to find another use for it before it reopens as a strip club.

Concerns were brought to Local 4’s attention about Lamar Willis, 44, a former music teacher who resigned after being charged with multiple sex crimes against children in the Southfield Public school system before moving to the Detroit public school system.

Edgardo Luis Perez, 44, evaded capture for nearly 25 years. Perez, who is accused of killing Gordon Machek, 56, of Farmington Hills back in 2001, has been arrested in Guatemala and extradited back to Michigan.

With a new billboard now staring back at Vista Maria’s campus and survivors gathering nearby Thursday morning, a long-running fight over accountability at the Dearborn Heights facility moved into an even more public phase, one aimed as much at Lansing as it is at the institution itself.

A Clarkston man, who allegedly goes by ‘handsome Rob’ and was previously arrested in a child sex and human trafficking sting operation out of Genesee County, is now accused of distribution of child pornography and receipt and possession of child pornography.

The FBI said a Michigan man and former Cornell University Ph.D. student who was banned from an Ithaca, New York, church is now charged with cyberstalking after what investigators describe as years of harassing and threatening emails aimed at the church’s pastor and two female congregants.

An investigation is underway outside a Taylor gas station after an attempted traffic stop for an outstanding felony warrant ended with a police shooting that left the driver injured.

An investigation is underway outside a Taylor gas station after an attempted traffic stop for an outstanding felony warrant ended with a police shooting that left the driver injured.

Five people, including two juveniles, were shot during an annual block party in Mount Clemens late Saturday night.