Oxford school safety policies not implemented, former board leaders claim

Hillsdale — Kathy and Gerald Dihle were at a loss over what to do with their 15-year-old son. Brandon was refusing to come home from his friend's house, and the friend's mother told Kathy her son was not there. He was disobedient to his parents, struggling in school and was vaping, Gerald said.

When adults are sentenced in a criminal case, they are automatically notified of their right to an appeal. That's not the case for Michigan juveniles when their case is adjudicated. Courts do not have to tell juveniles of their appellate rights and many don't even know they can appeal certain orders and decisions, said Josh Pease, the director of Michigan's new Youth Defense Project, which operates out of the State Appellate Defender Office.

Relatives of a former St. Clair Housing Commission director who were convicted of stealing government low-income housing money have been sentenced to prison, federal officials announced Monday. Brian Loren, Ryan Loren and Kayla Loren were sentenced before U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith, records show. Investigators announced in 2019 that the...

A plastics manufacturing company agreed to clean up PFAS pollution at the site of its former facility in Brighton, Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Monday, marking the first settlement to result from a series of PFAS lawsuits she filed in 2020. As part of a Jan. 12 consent decree filed...

A Detroit man is facing arson charges in connection with the intentional burning of a Macomb County work van outside the county administration building in Mount Clemens, the Macomb County Prosecutor's Office said Monday. The fire, which was set in the first floor of the parking structure connected to the...

Michigan faces an uphill battle to jumpstart what has been a slow and sporadic gain in residents during the past two decades, experts said, as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer lobbied during her State of the State speech last week to recruit more businesses and attract more people from neighboring states. The...

Michigan lawmakers are fast-tracking legislation this week that would allow senior citizens not to pay any income tax on most of their pension and 401(k) retirement income by 2026. But under the legislation, a 70-year-old who is still working a job — be it salaried or hourly — will still...

Officials are investigating a crash Monday in Macomb Township that left two people dead and another injured. Macomb County Sheriff's deputies were dispatched to North Avenue and Indian Trail around 2:10 p.m. for a two-vehicle crash, representatives said in a statement. "A white GMC Van with one male driver was...

I recently came across a photograph of my grandpa lying in bed during his invalid years. Above his head was a shotgun hanging on pegs within easy reach. I'm sure it was loaded. As a kid, it was common to walk into the homes of friends and see a pistol...

A 41-year-old White Lake Township man died Sunday after his SUV crashed head-on with a pickup truck, police said. Officers and firefighters were called at about 8 p.m. Sunday to a location on Bogie Lake Road near Cedar Island Road for a report of a crash, they said Monday. According...

Boyd Byelich was watching the news from his home in Rogers City after Russia invaded Ukraine last February and knew he needed to help. He began searching for an organization that provided humanitarian aid to Ukrainian refugees. In April, Byelich traveled to Krakow, a Polish city of about 700,000 people that took in more than 200,000 Ukrainian refugees after the war began. He volunteered at a clothing distribution center run by the Internationaler Bund, one of the largest providers of social and educational work in Europe as well as a World Central Kitchen site.

Metro Detroiters can expect some snow relief next week, but are advised to be aware of temperatures that will feel below zero. "We'll see wind chills dropping down to the single digits" and possibly below zero in Detroit on Monday night into Tuesday morning, said Andrew Arnold, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's Detroit office.