Mondrae Murphy

FORCE Detroit is launching a new monthly outreach effort called the “Caravan of Love” that will bring violence-prevention resources and other services directly into neighborhoods on Detroit’s west side.

Families and community members gathered outside the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility, demanding answers after four women died at the prison over the past two months.

Another major stretch of Rochester Road is headed for construction, this time in Rochester Hills, as state transportation officials plan a two-year reconstruction project on nearly five miles of the busy corridor.

Fast action by Detroit police stopped a shooting outside a funeral on the city’s west side Friday evening.

Detroit’s push to add mid-block streetlights is now underway in the Regent Park neighborhood, where Mayor Mary Sheffield unveiled the first of more than 3,000 new fixtures planned citywide.

A 32-year-old Ypsilanti man was taken into custody after allegedly barricading himself inside a Romulus home with a woman during a domestic violence incident and threatening to kill responding officers.

A homeless shelter run by the Friend of the Father Foundation on 9 Mile Road in Warren has closed after about a year and a half, according to the nonprofit’s CEO, who says the organization couldn’t secure sufficient funding to continue operating.

Some Downriver neighborhoods were still dealing with partial or recurring outages Tuesday evening, days after severe storms last week knocked out power for hundreds of thousands across Metro Detroit.

Videos posted to social media show teens pushing each other in shopping carts and firing off fireworks, some of which are thrown at people in the parking lot of Hamtramck Town Center during Fourth of July festivities.

Taylor police are investigating the fatal stabbing of a 25-year-old man outside an apartment complex early Thursday, and a 26-year-old Detroit woman is in custody.

The Detroit City Council narrowly approved a nine-month extension of the city’s ShotSpotter contract Tuesday, following emotional public comment and a debate over whether the gunshot-detection technology improves public safety or drains resources that could be used elsewhere.

Former residents of Vista Maria gathered Tuesday evening in Allen Park for what organizers described as the largest survivor meet-up since a lawsuit was filed accusing the Dearborn Heights nonprofit of years of abuse and systemic failures.