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The 2-mill, 6-year enhancement millage was defeated by a margin of about 51% to 49%, according to results from county clerks' offices. Absentee ballots in Dearborn Heights were still being tabulated Wednesday afternoon.
The scandals tarnished a run of election victories stretching back to 1984 and some policy successes, including the expansion of Cobo Center and converting to a regional authority. Ficano also is credited with standing up for autoworkers by supporting the 2008 government bailout of General Motors and Chrysler, even buying television advertisements in the home state of senators who opposed the plan.
Now a jury, made up of 7 men and 5 women must decide the Dearborn Heights man's fate. Jurors got the case today after closing arguments in Wayne County Circuit Court and spent the afternoon deliberating.
The pair scored victories in their races despite some confusion as votes were tallied overnight. .
State prosecutors have failed to persuade an appeals court to reinstate a conspiracy charge against two people who worked for former U.S. Rep. Thad McCotter.
Wayne County Circuit Court Chief Judge Robert Colombo Jr. dismissed a complaint brought by the campaign of Rep. David Nathan, who was competing for a state Senate seat in a district that included Dearborn Heights.
It's not enough to simply trim budgets and cut costs. Evans needs to reconfigure the county, decide what constitutes core county services, and focus the county's limited resources on performing those services, the kind of broad-scale re-envisioning of purpose proposed, but never managed, by multiple mayors of Detroit, the city that filed for municipal bankruptcy last year.
Former Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans will presumably become the next Wayne County executive, having outdistanced a large field of Democratic candidates Tuesday vying to unseat the current executive, Robert Ficano.
A ruling by Circuit Judge Paul Teranes led to Ficano becoming sheriff April 11, 1983. In November 1984, with the help of his political patron, county clerk James Killeen, Ficano logged his first election win, easily defeating Republican Robert Slaughter for sheriff.
Two conservatives and a liberal. That's who will be deciding the fate of same-sex marriage in Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee as the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals takes up the highly contentious issue in Cincinnati today.
A judge has ordered clerks not to count all absentee ballots in Dearborn Heights, some of which may have been solicited improperly.
Ali Hassan Al-Aasadi told the Free Press last month he started burning Qurans after having some disputes involving money with a Muslim man at a local mosque.
During examination today, prosecutors pointed out details that Theodore Wafer told jurors Monday but did not tell a police investigator on the morning he fatally shot a teenager on his front porch.
On primary election day, let's talk instead about how we get people out to vote — and why what we're doing isn't working.
In an injunction request filed in Wayne County Circuit Court, Citizens for David Nathan asked local, county and state election officials to not process 'potentially fraudulent absentee ballots' until an investigation has been conducted.
Theodore Wafer is charged with second-degree murder in the shooting of Renisha McBride.
All three teens are from Grosse Pointe Woods. Meteer now lives with her father in Royal Oak.
It's the people who will teach you the most. Their defining, irrepressible vitality is what keeps this city going. It's what cries out for help and investment, a chance to make Detroit great again. And they'll show you that the city's financial mess, the cause of the bankruptcy, isn't their fault, but the product of decades of decline. Now, a dearth of essential city services wallops their lives with incompetence and incapability.
Dorothea Walker of Eastpointe watches trials. Lots of trials. She's been seen at any number of high-profile dramas, including some of the many Kwame Kilpatrick court appearances.
Some members of Dearborn Heights' Arab-American community claimed in recent weeks that hundreds of absentee ballots had been mishandled by City Clerk Walter Prusiewicz, preventing a segment of their community from casting ballots in Tuesday's primary. Prusiewicz asked the state and county to look into the possibility of alleged voter fraud.
A drunken driver struck a police officer investigating a fatal crash on Detroit's east side Friday evening, police say.
'Why are you running?' That's the first question I ask most seekers of elective office, and the only thing more striking than the utter lack of journalistic imagination it reveals is how many candidates seem not to have fashioned a serviceable answer.
State officials say they are investigating possible voter fraud in Dearborn Heights involving hundreds of absentee ballot applications and warn that criminal charges could result, as they follow up on a complaint filed by the city clerk.
The city's Public Lighting Authority says more than 14,000 lights have been installed Thursday.
Forensic pathologist Dr. Werner Spitz took the stand again this morning and testified about what he saw on Renisha McBride's body, looking at pictures taken at the scene of her death in Dearborn Heights.
Grosse Pointe Park officials say its barricade that stops Detroit traffic at Kercheval is on their side of the border.
An immigration judge adjourned today's hearing to decide whether Mahmoud Bazzi will be deported to Lebanon, where he is suspected of war crimes.
'Mr. Saad approached Mr. Bieniewicz without provocation and struck him with such vehemence that he had to know, anyone should know in this day and age that it could cause death,' the judge said said.
A Romulus police officer has been charged with two felonies after he was accused of pointing a gun while off duty at another driver during a road rage incident.
We can't stop, we won't stop — despite a hazy track record of success, and legitimate questions about transparency, politicians seem to find the world of dark money irresistible.
The tuition break will be for classes during the 2015 spring and summer semesters.
The Detroit Dashboard is up and running and features links to information on community initiatives and city programs.
As 8-year-old Jakari Pearson slept in his bedroom early Wednesday, several shots rang out, striking his family's townhome on the eastern edge of Detroit's Midtown area. Now, police are searching for his killer and the community is mourning the loss of a boy they say was an innocent bystander.
Bassel Abdul-Amir Saad, 36, of Livonia is charged with second-degree murder in the June 29 attack on referee John Bieniewicz, 44, of Westland.
Detroit Free Press reporters @elishaanderson and @ginadamron and photographer @DetroitMandi will all be tweeting from Frank Murphy Hall of Justice in Detroit.
Details about the investigation into Renisha McBride’s death were at the center of testimony during Day 5.
The charge stems from an incident that occurred March 28, 2014 on Chelsea Street, near Five Mile and Beech Daly. The two brothers were fighting over the control to a ceiling fan.
Although the 6th state House district is more than 87% African-American, three of the leading candidates in the Aug. 5 Democratic primary come from diverse ethnic backgrounds: Taiwanese, Mexican, Nigerian.
Dearborn Heights police investigator in charge of the case said evidence was not collected for days after Renisha McBride's killing.
The U.S. Coast Guard says a freighter hauling 23,000 tons of wheat has been refloated after running aground in a shipping channel of Lake St. Clair and is expected to head to Montreal.
Detroit police say a 20-year-old man has died after being shot during a quarrel Monday evening on Detroit's west side.
The credit card was lost or stolen from a woman while she was at a restaurant in the 42000 block of Ford Road in Canton about 1 p.m. July 13, according to Canton Police Sgt. Chad Baugh. It was used at locations in the Belleville area.
An incorrect date invalidated 106 of the 596 signatures turned in, bringing the total to 490 — fewer than the 495 needed to qualify the referendum question.
Theodore Wafer faces charges of second-degree murder, manslaughter and using a firearm in a felony in the death of Renisha McBride.
A more detailed report on a May audit of Veterans Affairs facilities showed personnel in Ann Arbor may have failed to use the scheduling system properly
A large freighter carrying wheat to Montreal is stuck in Lake St. Clair after running aground Saturday.
Haron Rajeh Elmawri is accused of strangling his 30-year-old sister, Asyh Elmawri, on Saturday and stabbing her multiple times with a knife, Dearborn police said .
Asyh Elmawri, 30, died from a combination of strangulation and multiple stab wounds, according to the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office. Her death has been ruled a homicide.
Prospective buyers can view the houses from 1-5 p.m. Saturday.
The FBI is investigating a former Ford engineer after secret listening devices were found in meeting rooms at the company's world headquarters in Dearborn, according to Ford officials and court documents.
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