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Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison is now the focus of an investigation by the city's office of inspector general after calls he made to citizens requesting they remove posts made on social media....
A man was rushed to the hospital Thursday after a car went into the water in Ecorse. According to police, a car went through Dingell Park at Southfield Road and Jefferson Avenue at around 12 p.m. on Sept. 17 and into the Detroit River. A man who was inside the car was taken to a ...
Wisconsin Republican Congressman and gubernatorial nominee Tom Tiffany is recalling the moments the plane he was on crashed into Lake Wausau . Tiffany said he braced for impact just seconds before the plane hit the water. "I yanked that seatbelt tight, and I would guess it was no...
Kevin Kreger was killed when his single-engine plane crashed in Clinton near Lima Center Road and Michigan Avenue on June 10, 2024.
A children's toy sold at Target stores nationwide and online is being recalled due to a potential choking hazard. The Melissa & Doug "Lights and Sound Fire Truck" is a compact fire engine toy with spinning wheels and busy-board activities that activate lights and sounds. The toy ...
A recall has been issued for heated blankets and heating pads sold on Amazon that could overheat, posing serious fire and burn hazards to consumers. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the recall was issued due to faulty internal wire heating elements...
A Romulus man has been charged after he allegedly struck a pedestrian in Huron Township and drove away from the scene. According to police, a 61-year-old New Boston man was struck by a van in the area of Pennsylvania Road between Huron River Drive and Wayne Road just before 8 a.m...
Pontiac residents and community leaders are speaking out after a string of violent events in the city, including the death of a 3-year-old boy Tuesday in what the Oakland County Sheriff's Office says was most likely caused by an unsecured firearm. Longtime Pontiac resident Scott ...
A person was arrested after a shooting on I-75 in Oakland County Wednesday afternoon. The shooting happened at around 5:40 p.m. on northbound I-75 near Ortonville Road (M-15) on Sept. 16. Previous coverage --> NB I-75 at Baldwin Road in Oakland County reopens following freeway sh...
An Adrian man accused of delivering fentanyl that killed a Blissfield man has pleaded guilty. Eric Lee Cooper, 43, was initially charged with two counts of delivery or manufacturing a controlled substance, possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, possession of ammunition b...
He is being held at the Oakland County Jail awaiting arraignment on charges of felonious assault and carrying a concealed weapon.
Something changed this summer that gave home buyers more negotiating power. As of August, sellers outnumbered buyers by 58% the biggest gap in more than a decade, according to Redfin. That doesn't mean home prices are about to crash, but after years of soaring prices, buyers may ...
Officers searched the camera network 26,000 times in less than a year. Outlier Media · Koby Levin · How Detroit police use Flock cameras
Waterford Township officials are making another push to pass police and fire millage renewals after both measures failed in August, bringing their case directly to residents at a Wednesday night town hall. Dozens of residents attended the meeting, where police and fire chiefs out...
The city of Eastpointe is ending its contract with Flock Safety after the police department found that two employees misused the company’s license plate reader system. The Eastpointe City Council voted 4-1 Tuesday night to end the contract. Council member Rob Baker was the only m...
People were heartbroken after a chopper crash in California that was working for a news station killed three people.
Georgia police are searching for a man who police say was "infatuated" with a rubber duck in a stranger's hot tub.
The northbound lanes of I-75 at Baldwin Road in Oakland County have reopened following a Michigan State Police investigation into a freeway shooting. Update --> 1 arrested after shooting on NB I-75 near Ortonville Road The incident occurred on Wednesday (Sept. 16) around 5:40 p.m...
The fast-paced, high-stakes work of emergency medicine has been dramatized in television shows such as “ER” and “The Pitt.” But long before those fictional emergency departments captured viewers’ attention, the specialty was taking shape in Detroit. Henry Ford Hospital is celebra...
A routine drive to work turned tragic for Tera Shamey and her brother-in-law. Tuesday, she said they were carpooling when a metal object came crashing through her windshield. Shamey was driving on southbound I-275, just south of Warren Road, when the incident occurred. Her passen...
Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison is now the focus of an investigation by the city's office of inspector general after calls he made to citizens requesting they remove posts made on social media....
What began as a medical call for Monroe firefighters quickly turned into an unexpected rescue after first responders discovered a 3-month-old baby inside a smoke-filled home. According to the Monroe City Public Safety Department, firefighter paramedics were dispatched Monday to a...
A Detroit Police homicide detective is facing multiple charges after police say she drove the wrong way on Vernier Road, then left the scene of a crash. Lariah Stevens, 32, was driving an unmarked Detroit Police Department vehicle with its emergency lights flashing when the crash...
As debate over Flock cameras in the U.S. grows, another Metro Detroit community has canceled their contract with the controversial tool.
A 20-year-old man is dead and two suspects are in custody after police say the victim and a group of three other men were ambushed.
As the investigation surrounding the tragic shooting death of a 3-year-old Pontiac boy continues, the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office tells FOX 2 the father of the child is now in custody awaiting formal charges....
As the investigation surrounding the tragic shooting death of the child continues, the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office tells FOX 2 the father of the child is now in custody awaiting formal charges....
Eastpointe City Council voted 4-1 Tuesday night to terminate its contract with Flock Safety, shutting down 18 license plate reader cameras positioned across the city amid growing concerns over privacy, data access, and alleged misuse by police department employees. Watch Peter Ma...
Officials with the National Transportation Safety Board gave their first briefing Wednesday following the fatal Tuesday evening crash of a news helicopter in Southern California. The NTSB and FAA had begun an investigation of the crash on Wednesday and were interviewing witnesses...
Tempted by promises of efficiency, a small but growing number of Michigan police departments have turned to artificial intelligence to help officers write police reports. Watch Ross' investigation in the video player below: Michigan officers turn to AI for police reports; prosecu...
An Allen Park teen has been charged for allegedly shooting a 40-year-old man in Roseville back in August.
An Allen Park teen was arrested and charged after he allegedly shot and killed a Roseville man. Quadir Watson, 16, was charged on Sept. 15 with second-degree murder. According to the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office, Watson shot Walter Bryant, 40, while Bryant was sitting in his...
The man accused of injuring two people after firing a weapon at a youth football game in Pontiac over the weekend has been charged with four felonies. Sherwood Lennard Jackson, Jr., 37, of Auburn Hills, was arrested Sunday afternoon after he allegedly shot a 19-year-old Pontiac m...
An Auburn Hills man has been arrested and charged in connection to a shooting during a youth football game in Pontiac over the weekend. Sherwood Lennard Jackson, 37, is charged with shooting one count of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder or by strangula...
The victim was with three other young men who had pre-arranged to meet a woman and were ambushed by several men with assault rifles who fired into the vehicle....
A man was found dead in a car in Waterford Township Tuesday morning, and police said he was killed in an ambush shooting. A 20-year-old Detroit man was found dead in the front passenger’s seat of a car in the area of Williams Lake Road and Hanford Drive at around 6 a.m. on Sept. ...
A semi-truck rolled over on northbound I-75 late Tuesday night, closing the freeway. According to Michigan State Police, a semi-truck rolled over on northbound I-75 near Schaefer just after 11 p.m. on Sept. 15, leaving the cab hanging over the roadway. The crash impacted the free...
A 3-year-old has died after an accidental shooting in a Pontiac apartment Tuesday night. Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard, in a press conference, described the shooting as a completely avoidable tragedy. Previous coverage --> Oakland County sheriff discusses fatal shooting...
A city watchdog agency responsible for rooting out waste, fraud, abuse and corruption is investigating Detroit Police Chief Todd Bettison. Bettison and “his actions related to social media posts,” have prompted a probe by Detroit’s Office of Inspector General. The police chief ha...
Waterford Township officials will hold a town hall meeting Wednesday night to discuss the police and fire millage renewals following their defeat in the August primary. For decades, Waterford Township police and fire officials say millage funding has helped them service the regio...
A news helicopter crashed in a Los Angeles neighborhood on Tuesday and burst into flames, killing at least three people while reporters were covering the collision of an SUV and a city bus, officials and the news outlet said. Colleen Williams, an NBC4 Los Angeles anchor, confirme...
Severe weather is possible in Metro Detroit on Tuesday, Sept. 15, as storms move through the region. Click here for the latest forecast from our 4Warn Weather team. Here’s a list of the alerts by county . Wayne County No active weather alerts. Oakland County No active weather ale...
A 3-year-old boy died from a gunshot wound in Pontiac, police say. It's unclear who handled the weapon, but there are several kids that also live in the house....
A 3-year-old boy died after he was accidentally shot inside an apartment in Pontiac. The shooting occurred on Tuesday (Sept. 15) in the 100 block of Maynard Court. Update: Oakland County sheriff discusses fatal shooting of 3-year-old boy in Pontiac Police said the boy was taken t...
New details emerged in court today in the case of a 79-year-old man who is accused of pulling a gun on four Muslim men on Saturday. Peter Northup was arraigned on four counts of aggravated hate crimes after allegedly targeting the men for their religion and threatening violence. ...
Grosse Ile police are using an artificial intelligence-generated image to help identify a man whose body was recovered from the Detroit River on Sept. 8. Instead of releasing photos taken the day of the recovery, the Grosse Ile Police Department used AI to render a lifelike compo...
An attorney is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate alleged employment discrimination within the Michigan State Police. James K. Fett sent a 17-page letter dated Sept. 11 to the DOJ Civil Rights Division, asking the agency to open a pattern-or-practice investigati...
The Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees has approved a six-month moratorium on certain e-bikes and electric scooters for people under 16 on township-owned property and rights-of-way. The board approved the moratorium on Monday (Sept. 14) after township officials described numer...
From crashes to confusion, many communities are working to regulate e-bikes and e-motos. Bloomfield Township is now restricting the use of the devices for anyone under 16....
A 68-year-old Melvindale woman lost nearly $6,000 after scammers convinced her to hand over her debit and credit cards to a man posing as a bank employee who showed up at her front door. Watch the story in the video player below: Melvindale senior loses nearly $6,000 in bank impe...
Michigan State Police have removed more than 20,000 people from the state’s sex offender registry following a landmark Michigan Supreme Court ruling — slashing the list by nearly half. The court ruled Sept. 9, 2026, that amendments to the Sex Offender Registration Act cannot be u...
A doctor in Denver, Colorado is betting his retirement savings on a new kind of healthcare clinic one he says could change the way patients experience emergency and urgent care. Dr. Noah Kaufman left the emergency room after 25 years to open KaufCare, a direct acute care clinic h...
A Detroit family remains displaced after a large tree fell onto their Brightmoor home during a recent severe storm, and local nonprofits are asking for help removing it. The Ray family was inside their home on West Parkway when strong winds brought the tree down. The impact damag...
Newly released video shows a disastrous helicopter crash during a lesson earlier this year at Cedar City Regional Airport in Utah. The National Transportation Safety Board released the video after it completed an investigation into the May 23 incident. Incredibly, neither the Sou...
An electric motorcyclist is seriously injured after he was hit by a pickup truck in Rochester Hills Tuesday morning. The crash happened just before 7:30 a.m. on Sept. 15 on West Avon Road near Old Perch Road. According to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office, a 42-year-old Rochest...
A Rochester Hills man was seriously injured after the e-motorcycle he was riding on was hit by a car on Tuesday morning. According to the Oakland County Sheriff's Office, the 42-year-old Rochester Hills man was riding an e-motorcycle on the sidewalk and began crossing West Avon R...
A stretch of northbound I-275 was closed Tuesday morning due to a crash. The Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) reported the crash on northbound I-275 at Ann Arbor Road just before 10 a.m. on Sept. 15. Sky4 at the scene showed crews cleaning up the crash, and it appeare...
A 33-year-old Macomb County man has been charged with first-degree animal torture after prosecutors say he stomped on and killed a woman’s kitten. Marcus Winfrey, of Mount Clemens, was reportedly sleeping on the steps of the First United Methodist Church on Sept. 2 when he awoke ...
A 79-year-old Troy man is facing multiple charges after allegedly making threats of violence against four men offering to discuss Islam with the public outside the library on Saturday. Investigators say the man told the victims that he hates Muslims, and reportedly threatened to ...
A woman accused of leading a police chase in a stolen U-Haul van before crashing it in the middle of a Macomb County intersection has pleaded no contest. Jennifer Roe , 47, of Clinton Township, was charged with one count of third-degree fleeing, one count of receiving and conceal...
