3 killed after plane traveling from north Georgia crashes into Michigan home

Three people are dead after a single-engine plane that took off from a north Georgia airport earlier in the day crashed into a home about 30 miles northwest of downtown Detroit on Saturday afternoon.

Shootings, killings are also rising as COVID-19 ravages US

Homicides in Detroit, New York, Philadelphia and other cities have topped 2019 numbers as violence surged while much of the U.S. struggled during the coronavirus pandemic.

2 children die in Christmas morning fire on Detroit's east side

Officials with the Detroit Fire Department say two children are dead and three more have been injured after fire broke out at a home on Helen Street on Detroit's east side Christmas morning.

Michigan parents must pay after destroying son's $25K porn stash

A federal judge has ruled that Michigan parents must pay their son after destroying his porn collection he valued at $25,000.

8-year-old girl writes letter to Santa for a new home after rental scam splits family up

A Detroit girl is asking Santa for a new home this year for Christmas so her family can be together again after falling victim to a rental scam over the summer. 

Rochester Community Schools basketball coach charged with brutal beating of fiance

"I have seen pictures of her in the emergency room and she is not recognizable," Undersheriff Michael McCabe said. "The neighbor knows her and didn't recognize her when she rang the doorbell from all the blood and her face being so misshapen."

COVID-19 vaccine shipments begin in historic US effort

​Initially, about 3 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine were expected to be sent out, and the priority is health care workers and nursing home residents as infections, hospitalizations and deaths soar in the U.S.

Texas sues 4 states claiming unconstitutional voting changes

Ken Paxton has sued battleground states Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin to challenge their 2020 presidential election results.

GOP leaders in Pa., 3 other states quash dubious Trump bid on electors

Republican leaders in four critical states won by President-elect Joe Biden say they won’t participate in a legally dubious scheme to flip their state’s electors to vote for President Donald Trump.

2020 election breathes new life into false 'dead voter' claims

As baseless allegations of voter fraud continue to circulate online, social media users are falsely claiming that people cast extra votes using the identities of dead people in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Michigan. There’s no evidence that this happened.

Trump campaign files another lawsuit in Michigan seeking to halt ballot certification

The Trump campaign has filed another lawsuit in Michigan alleging election irregularities and disenfranchisement of Republican poll watchers led to voter fraud in Wayne County.

Fact check: Video claims ballot tampering at Michigan post office, but postmarks don't matter for Mich. count

A viral video claims a postal worker in Traverse City, Michigan, was told the day after the election to separate ballots so they could be stamped with the previous day's date. In Michigan, that would not have mattered for the election count.

Trump lambastes Detroit in ballot counting criticism, calling it corrupt

Detroit did not escape Trump's wrath as he attacked the process of ballot counting at the TCF Center. Trump currently trails challenger Joe Biden 264-214 in the race to 270 electoral votes although the former VP's projected win of Arizona has been debated.