CRIME AND SAFETY

Parents of the victims of the Oxford High School shooting gathered Monday for a news conference to call on the state to open an independent investigation into the events that led to the shooting.

Four people intentionally voted twice in Michigan’s summer primary election, the state attorney general said Friday as she announced felony charges against the suburban Detroit residents as well as part-time employees accused of enabling it to happen.

An Indiana man who threatened to kill then-Rochester Hills Clerk Tina Barton, a Republican, days after the 2020 election has been sentenced to federal prison.

A man pleaded guilty Tuesday in a wild scheme to steal 123 handguns by kidnapping the manager of a Michigan sporting goods store and threatening him at gunpoint to reveal how to turn off the alarm.

A bill that would bar the “gay panic” and “trans panic” defenses from being used in court was passed Thursday by the state Senate.

During the first quarter of 2024, there’s also been a 13% drop in aggravated assault, according to the FBI. Murder and rape both decreased by about 26%. Robbery decreased by 18% and property crime declined 15%.

A state investigator said he considers ex-President Donald Trump to be an uncharged co-conspirators in a scheme to overturn the presidential election in Michigan.

State prosecutors charged former Michigan House Speaker Lee Chatfield (and his wife) with several financial crimes on Tuesday.

A newly formed state office from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration is set to help make for safer neighborhoods across Michigan.

Bills that passed the state Senate would change the laws surrounding hate crimes, expanding the definition from “ethnic intimidation” to “a hate crime.”