A Dearborn woman is facing multiple charges in an alleged Medicaid fraud scheme.

Two Metro Detroit residents are facing charges after they allegedly threatened elected officials, including the Dearborn mayor and the Michigan Supreme Court.

A Mid-Michigan man convicted by a Wexford County jury for sexually abusing a 5-year-old child over the course of a year has been sentenced to serve at least 38.3 years in prison.

Two men accused of carjacking a man and his daughter at gunpoint in Grosse Pointe Woods have been bound over to stand trial in Wayne County Circuit Court, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced.

Michigan Democrats want to focus on President Donald Trump and the economy heading into November.

Meta has agreed to pay $17 billion and add stronger child-safety measures as part of a landmark legal settlement that ended a trial over teen social media addiction and settled claims filed by 47 states, including Michigan.

A new report from the Michigan Attorney General’s Office details why criminal cases stemming from the Flint water crisis ended without going to trial or resulting in convictions.

In a story published Aug. 25, 2026, about a Michigan attorney general report on the Flint water crisis, The Associated Press erroneously reported that three state Supreme Court justices appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder joined a 2022 ruling that found one-person grand juries unconstitutional and threw out charges against him and other officials.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced the release of a report detailing the Department of Attorney General’s yearslong criminal investigation into the Flint Water Crisis.

A report of the investigation into the Flint Water Crisis was released to the public on Tuesday.

A BP gas station in Romulus is still charging drivers nearly $6 a gallon for regular gas — months after Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office launched a formal price gouging investigation into the station.

A lawsuit filed Tuesday by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel seeks to dissolve a Waterford-based nonprofit for misrepresenting its housing assistance services to consumers.

Caesar Cooper, 25, from Detroit, has been sentenced to five to 20 years in prison for his role in a prolific Metro Detroit auto theft ring, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced.

A new wave of imposter scams has prompted Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to reissue a consumer alert warning residents to remain vigilant to protect their personal information.

A 26-year-old Detroit licensed practical nurse was arraigned on charges alleging she stole controlled substances from a nursing home patient and falsified medical records to cover up the theft, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office said.

Two men are facing multiple felony charges after authorities say they carjacked a rented Cadillac Escalade at gunpoint in Grosse Pointe Woods before fleeing and crashing another vehicle.

Michigan voters will decide a competitive Democratic U.S. Senate primary Tuesday in a contest that will have major implications for control of the chamber next year.

A Clinton Township man pleaded guilty on Thursday in connection with a Metro Detroit human trafficking ring.

Jingyu Jin, 46, and four others were arrested in December 2024 for their alleged involvement in the sex trafficking ring, which operated out of four illicit massage parlors in Metro Detroit.

Jeffrey Mosteller, the safety director at the Oxford Center in Troy, pleaded no contest Tuesday to involuntary manslaughter.

State regulators approved two key environmental permits on Wednesday that are vital for Enbridge Inc.’s Great Lakes Tunnel Project to move forward.

Pre-election testing of voting machines is open to the public, and must be conducted at least five days before early voting begins.

23andMe reportedly learned about the breach months after millions of customers’ personal information was made publicly available.

A Brighton man will serve two years’ probation for falsifying water safety records for private water systems at several Michigan mobile home parks.

Michigan will receive nearly $1 million as part of a multi-million-dollar, multi-state settlement over the “deceiving” practices on Cash App, the state’s attorney general announced on Thursday.

U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens is closing Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary by arguing she is the party’s strongest candidate to beat Republicans.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and Attorney General Dana Nessel are responding to letters from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division requesting election-related documents from three Michigan municipalities ahead of the August 2026 primary election.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is retreating from a plan to use warehouses to hold up to 10,000 people on a single site, jettisoning a key piece of former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s $38-billion plan to rapidly expand detention capacity this year.

Four people are facing charges in separate health care fraud cases, the Michigan Attorney General’s Office announced on Tuesday.

A BP gas station near Detroit Metro Airport in Romulus is accused of charging up to 72% more than its competitors, prompting an investigation from Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s office.

Federal immigration officials have abandoned plans to convert a warehouse in Romulus into an immigration detention center and instead will sell the property, a decision that follows a lawsuit filed by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel challenging the project.

A BP gas station near Detroit Metro Airport in Romulus is under investigation by the state for allegedly price gouging drivers, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Tuesday.

Nessel’s office received more than 16 complaints about the gas station in 2025 and 2026, according to a court filing.

The opinion stated that the jury instructions provided by the trial court ‘tainted the verdict.’

Since 2020, the Michigan Public Service Commission has approved nearly $800 million in rate hikes for Consumers Energy.

An Oakland County woman is accused of using millions of dollars from a $20 million state grant for personal purchases.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel on Wednesday announced 16 felony charges against a Farmington Hills businesswoman accused of stealing and misusing millions of dollars from a $20 million state grant meant to create a global business accelerator in Oakland County.

An administrator at an adult assisted living facility in Michigan has been bound over on charges, including involuntary manslaughter, in connection with a resident’s death, officials said.

A former Michigan corrections officer accused of having sex with inmates has pleaded guilty to one charge.

The Supreme Court has sided with Michigan in ruling that the state’s lawsuit seeking to shut down a section of an aging pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel will stay in state court.

The U.S. Justice Department has demanded hundreds of thousands of ballots and related records from the Detroit area from the 2024 election.

The Justice Department is asking Wayne County to turn over every ballot from last November’s presidential election, and Michigan’s top Democrats say the request doesn’t make sense.

A Detroit man charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of a 28-year-old Westland man has been bound over, officials said.

A Macomb County dentist is facing 131 counts of Medicaid fraud in a scheme that involved dental crowns, officials said.

A Florida man has been sentenced after a jury found him guilty of flooding Michigan gubernatorial campaigns with forged nomination signatures during the 2022 election cycle.

Michigan’s utility regulator has signed off on a new rate increase for Consumers Energy, permitting the company to generate an additional $276.6 million in revenue from its electricity customers.

A Detroit woman has pleaded guilty to organizing “push out” thefts at more than 13 Ulta Beauty stores in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties, officials said.

City and state officials in Romulus filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to stop the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from moving forward with plans to use a commercial warehouse as an immigration detention facility.

Sinjuan Song, 31, of Alhambra, California, was arraigned in Waterford on charges of allegedly conducting a large-scale gift card fraud scheme.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is pushing back against DTE Energy’s latest natural gas rate increase, arguing for an 85% reduction that could save customers millions of dollars.

Scammers are continuing to target Michigan residents with fake texts about unpaid tolls and tickets, prompting a renewed warning about these schemes.

A Wayne County man has been sentenced for embezzling more than $166,000 from his former employer.

A Warren man has been sentenced in connection with defrauding several gubernatorial candidates in a signature collection scheme during the 2022 election cycle, officials said.

A former Michigan funeral home director has agreed to pay more than $1 million in restitution to 204 victims after taking a plea deal in his embezzlement case.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer released a statement after a suspect allegedly crashed into a West Bloomfield synagogue and fired shots on Thursday afternoon.

We’re coming off Consumer Protection Week and getting a better idea of the issues affecting Michiganders the most.

Kellie Lauwers, the wife of Michigan Sen. Dan Lauwers, has been charged in connection with allegedly embezzling more than $35,000 from a chamber of commerce in St. Clair County, officials said.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said her office will not join a settlement between Live Nation and the U.S. Department of Justice and will continue to litigate antitrust claims alongside a multistate coalition that is proceeding without the DOJ.

Here are the top 10 complaints Michigan consumers had in 2025, according to the attorney general's office.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel asked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to halt its plans to use a recently purchased warehouse in Romulus as a detention center with up to 500 beds.

Two people have been convicted of forgery and other crimes in an election petition scandal in Michigan.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has filed a motion with the Michigan Public Service Commission to reopen the review of two special contracts DTE Energy proposed to serve a massive AI data center in Saline Township.

The owner and CEO of an Oakland County facility, who is already facing a second-degree murder charge in connection with a deadly hyperbaric chamber explosion, is now facing health care fraud charges.

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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is warning people going to the Detroit Auto Show to watch out for parking scams.

A 47-year-old Michigan man was convicted of sexually assaulting two young girls and giving them methamphetamine, officials said.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has asked the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) to reconsider its recent approval of DTE contracts for a massive artificial intelligence data center planned in Washtenaw County.

The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents about a familiar phone scam.

A year ago, Michigan was expecting a windfall of federal funds to fuel a transition to clean energy, along with billions of dollars' worth of green manufacturing projects subsidized by the Biden administration's climate spending bills.

An Indiana man has been sentenced in connection with the 2015 sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl in Northern Michigan, officials said.

The Michigan Public Service Commission approved a controversial power deal for a data center in Saline Township.

A federal judge has blocked Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer from revoking an easement that allows Enbridge to run an oil pipeline through a Great Lakes channel.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel released a report detailing sexual abuse and misconduct allegations against 51 priests in the Diocese of Grand Rapids.

Hamtramck’s already-chaotic 2025 election has escalated into a full-scale legal battle, with City Clerk Rana Faraj filing a sweeping lawsuit alleging retaliation, defamation, and violations of Michigan’s Whistleblower Protection Act.

Michigan regulators continue to consider plans for a massive $7 billion data center planned for 575 acres of farmland south of Ann Arbor.

A Michigan funeral home director has been charged with 39 felony counts related to allegedly embezzling nearly $193,000 from prepaid funeral and insurance funds.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has issued a formal notice of intended action to retail chain Five Below following repeated allegations of pricing violations at nearly 20 stores across the state.

A Wayne County man accused of fraudulently obtaining more than $60,000 in pandemic relief funds and Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans has been bound over, officials said.

Michigan regulators have adopted landmark standards for the booming data center industry with a plan they say tries to protect residents from subsidizing the industry’s hefty energy use.

Federal judges ruled that the Trump administration must continue funding the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, for the month of November.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved energy company Enbridge's plan to encase a segment of an aging oil pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and 22 other state attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), demanding the agency use $6 billion in reserve funds to keep SNAP benefits flowing during a federal shutdown.

A man has pleaded no contest in connection with the murders of his brother and sister-in-law in Livingston County in 2008, officials said.

A Chinese national was sentenced for their role in operating an international human trafficking ring at massage parlors in Metro Detroit.

Families walked around the Ernest T. Ford Recreation Center Saturday, Oct. 4, to shine a spotlight on domestic violence and available resources.

Marian Sheridan, one of 15 Michigan Republicans whose felony charges were dismissed in the high-profile Republican elector case, is speaking publicly on TV for the first time about what she calls a politically motivated prosecution.

The dismissal of fraud charges against 15 Michigan Republicans is the latest and most dramatic setback in the cases against the fake electors who were part of President Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

A Michigan judge has dismissed the criminal cases against 15 people accused of acting falsely as electors for President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.

Two Hamtramck City Council members were arraigned Tuesday on election fraud charges, adding to the growing list of controversies surrounding the two-square-mile city in Metro Detroit.

A jury has awarded nearly $60 million to a man who accused a disgraced Michigan prosecutor and a police officer of violating his rights in filing sexual abuse charges.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel appeared on this week’s episode of Flashpoint to provide an in-depth look at several major cases her office is handling.

Four Metro Detroit men were charged in connection with what the Michigan Attorney General called the largest counterfeit bust in the state.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has filed a lawsuit against two men accused of creating fake companies to harass and intimidate small business owners in Ferndale in an attempt to extort money from them.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has filed a lawsuit against two men accused of creating fake companies to harass and intimidate small business owners in Ferndale in an attempt to extort money from them.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has filed a lawsuit against two men accused of creating fake companies to harass and intimidate small business owners in Ferndale in an attempt to extort money from them.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has charged Christopher Allen, 33, of Reed City, and Wesley Ann Conner, 21, of Leroy, with multiple felony counts of child abuse.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has reached a $4.5 million settlement with six Detroit-area nursing homes and their ownership companies over allegations of neglect.

The Michigan Gaming Control Board sent cease-and-desist letters to 19 online gambling organizations for operating without proper licenses.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced an ongoing investigation into Twin Flames Universe, an organization that has been called a cult and garnered attention through a Netflix documentary.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, along with 15 state attorneys general and the District of Columbia Attorney General, filed a lawsuit in federal court in Maryland on Monday to stop a settlement between the Trump administration that would allow a device to convert a semi-automatic weapon into a machine gun.