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.
Pre-election testing of voting machines is open to the public, and must be conducted at least five days before early voting begins.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
From rising utility bills to campaign finance accountability to reproductive rights, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is wading into three major legal battles — each drawing scrutiny from political opponents and support from progressive advocates.
Consumers Energy wants to raise your electric bills again, this time by $436 million a year. This follows a $154 million increase just approved two months ago.
This request is the largest ask that Consumers Energy has made while Nessel has been in office and is likely the largest request in decades.
A federal judge has dismissed the criminal charges against former Michigan State Police (MSP) Detective Sergeant Brian Keely related to the death of Samuel Sterling.
A New York man has pleaded guilty to a federal crime threatening Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.
“While it may be disappointing to hear, you are probably not in a secret, long-distance relationship with Garth Brooks,” Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said. This comes as the attorney general warns residents about an uptick in celebrity impersonation scams.
State prosecutors have dropped felony charges against seven people accused of trespassing and resisting police a year ago during the break-up of a pro-Palestinian camp at the University of Michigan.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel dropped charges against seven people who were arrested in connection with pro-Palestinian protests at the University of Michigan last year.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has filed a lawsuit against Roku, alleging that the television platform collects children’s data without obtaining parental consent.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel recently launched a new tool that helps residents learn more about how they could be impacted by the Trump administration’s federal actions.
She thought she was getting a good deal from a customer service rep with a company she trusted. However, a Macomb County woman is opening up to Local 4 about a scam that cost her more than $30,000.
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued a consumer alert warning residents about scammers who use Bitcoin ATMs to defraud people. Just last week, a 79-year-old Troy woman was targeted in this type of scam.
New developments emerged after a Metro Detroit apartment complex was accused of lacking heat, causing significant issues for residents.