3 Allen Park schools on lockdown for police situation

Allen Park - Three schools have been put on lockdown Friday for a police situation in a neighborhood, according to the Allen Park superintendent's office. Lindemann Elementary, Allen Park Middle School and the Riley Education Center have been on lockdown since 10:30 a.m. as a precaution. Allen Park police say officers came across four men inside a suspicious vehicle parked on the side of ...

Tips dwindle in Nevaeh Buchanans kidnapping slaying

Monroe - Investigators say the number of tips is dwindling in the kidnapping and slaying of a 5-year-old Michigan girl who disappeared four years ago and was found buried near a Michigan river. Detective Joseph Hammond of the Monroe County sheriff's department tells the Blade of Toledo, Ohio, that a hotline set up for the Nevaeh Buchanan case gets about one tip a month. Hammond was part of ...

Detroit City Council OKs $1B budget with some changes

"The mayor gave us a budget that was fundamentally flawed. It did not address the deficit, for one. It did not address eliminating any non-essential services," he said. "For those reasons, I thought we should have been able to find at least $76 million to put into an appropriations to pay down the deficit. We weren't able to do that and I voted ...

Two-minute drill Updates on Wings Tigers Pistons ... its all good

Welcome to the two-minute drill, which will give you a snapshot of what's going on with the Lions, Tigers, Red Wings, Pistons, Spartans and Wolverines each ...

National writers impressed by Red Wings Jimmy Howard

The Detroit Red Wings take the ice for Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinals against the Chicago Blackhawks on Thursday, May 23, 2013, at Joe Louis Arena. / Kirthmon F. Dozier / ...