Robert Joseph Bucko, 70, of Novi, was arraigned on Oct. 31 in the Oakland County 52-1 District Court for allegedly forging letters from his insurance clients to embezzle funds.

A Detroit police officer appeared not to be wearing pants during a court hearing on Monday.

A Canton Township man accused of stabbing three family members was arraigned Thursday and given a $3 million cash bond.

Macomb County Prosecutor Peter J. Lucido announced that 54-year-old Jerome Younger, of Roseville, was arraigned on two criminal sexual conduct charges related to an alleged assault upon a minor.

A preliminary exam date has been scheduled for Mario Green, who is accused of killing his ex-wife at Henry Ford Hospital, and Anthony Barnett, Green’s alleged accomplice.

Police said the resident brought the grenade to police for disposal.

Susan O’Hara, 56, of New Boston, was arraigned in the 33rd District Court in Woodhaven on eight felony charges for allegedly embezzling more than $2 million from her employer, General RV Center.

A Clinton Township mother remains in legal limbo after being found incompetent to stand trial for the death of her one-month-old daughter.

Macomb County Prosecutor Peter J. Lucido’s office announces that a 52-year-old Sterling Heights man was charged with a bank robbery.

Two people who were charged for vandalizing Detroit’s Guardian Building are now also facing charges for damaging the 36th District Court building.

Animal control officers rescued 27 dogs, including a litter of four puppies and their mother, from a Dearborn Heights home. After the dogs were removed, the house was condemned, according to city officials.

Thomas Michael Contratto, 27, was arraigned in the 17th District Court on an 18-count felony warrant.

An Idaho judge says he won’t postpone the quadruple murder trial of a man accused in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students.

Zanious Terell Murphy has been arrested for his involvement in the shooting that critically injured a 9-year-old in Troy.

Attorneys for a man accused of killing four University of Idaho students have asked that his trial be delayed.

A judge says Bryan Kohberger’s immediate family members may attend his upcoming quadruple-murder trial in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students, even if they might be called to testify.

Damon Bentley, 27, of Detroit, was arraigned in the 36th District Court on charges related to the fatal shooting of a 28-year-old Westland man.

A Hong Kong social worker has been sentenced to three years and nine months in prison for rioting after she tried to mediate between protesters and police at the 2019 anti-government protests.

A New Mexico court has cleared the way for the release of investigative records from the deaths of Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, as long as depictions of the deceased couple are blocked from view.

An Idaho judge is warning attorneys to quit filing so many sealed documents in the murder case of a man accused in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students.

Three alleged members of a criminal organization responsible for the thefts of hundreds of vehicles in southeast Michigan were bound over to stand trial in the 3rd Circuit Court in Wayne County in the 19th District Court in Dearborn.

Idaho prosecutors say a man charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students shouldn’t be allowed to offer an alibi defense unless he takes the stand himself during the murder trial later this year.

A 36th District Court employee was taken to a hospital for treatment after being shot twice. They are expected to survive.

A Montana man who had been living with a teenager who disappeared from her home in Arizona years earlier was sentenced to decades in a prison for possession of child sex abuse material.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says Shelley Letzer, 67, of West Bloomfield, was arraigned in the 52-3 District Court in Rochester Hills on four felony charges for allegedly financially exploiting a vulnerable adult.

The Bloomfield Township Police Department arrested Nathaniel Christian Jones for embezzlement of more than $20,000 from Tropical Smoothie Café.

A 59-year-old Michigan man has been charged, again, for hunting-related violations in Otsego County.

A judge has ruled that the death penalty will remain a possibility for a man charged with murder in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students.

Kwame Lewis Jones, 29, of Dearborn, was arrested during a mid-day home invasion.

Ronald Kevin Hill, 36, of Macomb County, has been charged in two cases in connection with selling drugs, resulting in death and possession of child sexually abusive material.

Detroit police officer Louis Allen Wilson, 47, was charged in connection with a domestic violence in Harrison Township.

Alex Ambrose, 27, of Southfield, was charged in 37th District Court in Warren for allegedly embezzling over $7,000 from eight vulnerable adults between September 2023 and January 2024.

The man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students has been booked into jail in Boise after a court moved his trial.

The trial of a man charged in the fatal stabbings of four University of Idaho students will be held in Boise, roughly 300 miles (482.80 kilometers) from where the crimes occurred.

A 43-year-old Clinton Township man has been charged in connection with the death of his neighbor’s dog.

Timothy Allen Daugherty, a 61-year-old resident of White Lake, has been charged with six counts of second-degree criminal sexual conduct by Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald.

The Wayne County Criminal Justice Center in Detroit has officially opened after 13 years and a cost of over half a billion dollars.

Joel Anthony Martinez, 48 of Roseville was charged in connection with a bar fight that severely injured a man in Center Line.

Jeremy Michael Heath, 48, of Clarkston, was arraigned in the 53rd District Court in Howell on three counts in connection with a tattoo shop shooting.

Jason Edward Barnes, 47, from Clinton Township, has been charged with impersonating fire personnel at two different crime scenes.

A driver has been charged in a crash that killed a 32-year-old woman in Canton Township.

Westland resident Jose Eugenio Medina-Hernandez, 33, was charged in connection with a traffic incident that killed two women.

A judge says defense attorneys for a man charged in the deaths of four University of Idaho students can resume phone surveys of potential jurors in the case.

A doctor will stand trial in Oakland County on charges stemming from an alleged fraudulent disability insurance claim.

A doctor will stand trial in Oakland County on charges stemming from an alleged fraudulent disability insurance claim.

Elijah Lawrence, 22, has been charged with inappropriately touching an 11-year-old girl while inside the bathroom of a Home Depot in Warren.

A 37-year-old man was charged with allegedly stabbing a woman during an armed robbery in Mount Clemens.

Jurors in a trial over the fatal movie-set shooting of a cinematographer by Alec Baldwin have heard in courtroom testimony that a manager increased oversight of firearm safety but was only partially aware of misfires in the days leading up to it.

A demonstrator has been charged with assaulting a police officer while demonstrating against President Joe Biden at a political rally held in Warren.

The Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office has charged a 17-year-old in connection with an alleged drunk driving incident that caused a man’s death.

A 30-year-old Shelby Township man was charged in connection with stabbing his mother.

Judge Kenneth King from the 36th District Court shared his terrifying story Wednesday of becoming the target of road rage.

Prosecutor Kym Worthy charged De-L Alekshay-Makalo Wesley, 49, of Eastpointe, in connection with a car crash that killed Dylan Bradford, 27, of Detroit, and injured a 35-year-old Inkster man.

Ann Arbor Municipal Center offices will close and trash collections will be delayed by the winter holidays.

A 28-year-old man from Detroit has been charged with fleeing police after an attempted traffic stop.

Three women have been charged with running a prostitution ring across multiple cities in Metro Detroit.

Michigan Department of Natural Resources officer Ryan Cox, 22, has been charged in the 77th District Court in Mecosta County on one charge each of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder (10-year felony) and felony firearm.

Jessica Lenore Kellar, 30, from Waterford, has been charged with operating while intoxicated, causing death, and operating while intoxicated with an occupant less than 16 years old.

Shawn Wilmoth, 36, of Warren, was arraigned in the 37th District Court in Macomb County on three charges of filing a false tax return.

Abortion providers faced off against attorneys for Utah and Kansas in state courts Tuesday, part of the ongoing fight after last year's Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

An Idaho judge has denied a request from roughly two dozen news organizations to lift a gag order in the criminal case of a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death.

A judge has entered not guilty pleas for a man charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students.

A grand jury has indicted a man who was already charged in the stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students, allowing prosecutors to skip a planned week-long preliminary hearing that was set for late June.

Newly released body camera video shows the man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students being pulled over for allegedly running a red light about a month before the killings.

Detroit police are investigating a bomb threat at the 36th District Court building.

Earlier on Tuesday, bailiffs made their way past protestors inside the home of a Tiny Home tenant, trying to remove them forcibly.

Patrick Selepak, 45, is already serving multiple life sentences from a 2006 case where he pled guilty to various first-degree premeditated homicides.

Defense attorneys for a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death have asked the Idaho Supreme Court to keep a gag order in place.

All nonemergency government buildings have closed due to the severe weather, city officials said.

The chief justice of Israel’s Supreme Court has sharply attacked the sweeping changes to the country’s justice system planned by the new conservative government, lending her voice to a growing outcry against the proposed overhaul.

A judge is set to consider whether authorities should be punished after the media obtained documents showing detailed allegations about the suspect in the Colorado gay nightclub shooting previously plotting to be “the next mass killer” in an old case that was sealed at the time.

A jury began deliberations Wednesday in the murder case against a former Texas police officer charged with fatally shooting a Black woman through a rear window of her home in 2019.

The suspect accused of entering a Colorado Springs gay nightclub and killing five people and wounding 17 others was formally charged with 305 criminal counts including hate crimes and murder.

The Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission has issued a public complaint to 36th District Court Judge Demetria Brue for professional misconduct.

Honorable Judge Jamie L. Wittenberg of the 44th District Court in Royal Oak passed away on Sunday at the age of 48.

Two right-wing operatives have pleaded guilty in Cleveland to single felony counts of telecommunications fraud for having placed thousands of hoax robocalls in Ohio during the runup to the 2020 general election.

Former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has invoked his right against self-incrimination during a civil trial related to the Flint water scandal.

The Michigan Supreme Court has thrown out charges against former Gov. Rick Snyder and others in the Flint water scandal.

The Supreme Court has made it easier for certain prison inmates to seek shorter sentences under a bipartisan 2018 federal law aimed at reducing racial disparities in prison terms for cocaine crimes.

Police say a Detroit man is charged in the fatal shooting of Hutch’s Jewelry Owner Dan Hutchinson. Roy Donta Larry, 44, was arraigned Friday (June 3) at the 45th District Court for first-degree murder and felony firearm.

The Memorial Day holiday will impact several city services.

A New Zealand man on Thursday was sentenced to one year in prison for threatening to kill Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

Here are tonight's top stories.

A judge has denied a request to lower a $500,000 bail set for two parents who with their son are charged in a fatal Michigan school shooting.

North Carolina’s highest court has delayed the state’s planned March 8 primary until May so state courts can review lawsuits claiming illegal gerrymandering.

Two conservative hoaxers face a record $5.1 million fine for allegedly making illegal robocalls to wireless phones without the owners' consent in the 2020 election.

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The current ban on evictions will last until October 3.Now two landlords are suing saying it is equivalent to the court taking private property. Legal challenges were expected here.

Unlike conventional diversion programs, eligible defendants will be able to enter the program before entering a guilty plea.

The 38th District Court in Eastpointe will be closed Wednesday, April 7 and possibly Thursday, April 8 due to a COVID-19 outbreak, according to court administrator, Karen Haydett.

Israel’s president has handed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu the difficult task of trying to form a new government.

The suspect was expected to be arraigned in the 34th District Court after 11 a.m. on Saturday. DETROIT – A Detroit mother has been charged in connection with the non-fatal shooting of her 13-year-old son who was shot by his 10-year-old cousin. Brianna Williams, 30, is charged with second degree child abuse. Allegedly, the 10-year-old found an unsecured handgun that belonged to a relative of the suspect and shot his cousin in the head. AdNew Today: Detroit parents charged in non-fatal shooting of 3-year-old sonRelated: Detroit police giving free gun locks to residents to prevent accidental shootings involving children“This case came to our office on the same day as another child shooting case, as a result of unsafe storage of a weapon,“ said Wayne County Prosecutor, Kim Worthy.

In this photo taken from a footage provided by the Babuskinsky District Court Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2021, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny gestures during a hearing on his charges for defamation in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia. (Babuskinsky District Court Press Service via AP)MOSCOW – Prosecutors on Tuesday asked a Moscow court to fine jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on charges of defaming a World War II veteran, maintaining pressure on the top Kremlin foe. Earlier this month, a Moscow court sentenced Navalny to two years and eight months in prison for violating terms of his probation while recuperating in Germany. The sentence stems from a 2014 embezzlement conviction that Navalny has rejected as fabricated and the European Court of Human Rights has ruled to be unlawful. AdDuring Tuesday's hearings at Moscow's Babushkinsky District Court, prosecutors asked the judge to order Navalny to pay a fine of 950,000 rubles (about $13,000) for slandering the 94-year-old veteran.

DETROIT – A Metro Detroit woman has been indicted after she was accused of misappropriating government money designated to aid medical providers in treatment of patients suffering from COVID-19 and instead using it for personal use. While the company was not operational during the pandemic, it did receive $37,656 for medical treatment and care for COVID-19 patients. Officials said Abbas misappropriated that money, issuing checks to her family members for personal use. The case was investigated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General and the FBI. The federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act, enacted in March 2020, manages the Provider Relief Fund, which assigns money for medical providers’ COVID response.

The case was watched as a test case for the future of independent Holocaust research in Poland. The case has been closely watched because it was expected to set a precedent in the field of Holocaust research. AdAt stake in the case was Polish national pride, according to the plaintiffs, and according to the defendants, the future independent research into an extremely sensitive issue. Grabowski, a Polish-Canadian history professor at the University of Ottawa, and Engelking, founder and director of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research in Warsaw, are among Poland's most prominent Holocaust researchers. AdThe libel case has raised concerns internationally because it comes amid a broader state-backed historical offensive that critics say largely whitewashes wrongdoing by Poles.

Attorneys for Snyder are telling prosecutors that the Flint water case should be dismissed because he was charged in the wrong county. (67th District Court in Flint via AP)LANSING, Mich. – Attorneys for former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder are striking back, telling prosecutors Tuesday that the Flint water case should be dismissed because he was charged in the wrong county. Snyder,” Lennon told the judge. Snyder was one of nine people charged in a new investigation of the Flint water crisis, including former state health department director Nick Lyon.

A federal judge in Michigan has denied a lawsuit seeking to decertify the state’s Nov. 3, 2020 General Election results based on claims of widespread fraud in the distribution, collection, and counting of ballots. The election results were certified in Michigan on Nov. 23. Read the full opinion here:Michigan’s Board of State Canvassers voted Nov. 23 certify the Nov. 3, 2020 General Election results. The vote to certify Michigan’s election results officially awards the state’s 16 electoral votes to Joe Biden in the presidential election. Board member Norman D. Shinkle (R) abstained from voting after questioning the balance of votes in certain precincts, specifically in Detroit.

WARREN, Mich. – A rise in COVID-19 cases among city hall employees has led to the temporary closure of Warren City Hall. According to city officials Sunday, a department administrator is currently on a ventilator and sedated until his oxygen levels go up. City officials said Warren Police Department and District Court also have experienced significant spikes. All city employees will be tested and the court, city hall and police department will be disinfected. It is currently unknown when Warren City Hall will reopen.

DETROIT – Timothy Eugene Moore, a 34-year-old man from Toledo, was arraigned Sunday afternoon on one count of homicide at the 34th District Court in Romulus. WATCH Local 4 News at 11Metro Detroit weather: Nice and sunny fall day with highs in the low 70sMostly clear Sunday night, with milder lows near 50 degrees (10 degrees Celsius). Mostly sunny and warm once again on Monday, with highs in the low 70s (22 degrees Celsius). We likely won’t break Monday’s record high of 75 degrees (24 degrees Celsius), set in 1999. 4 Fast FactsSaturday, Nov. 7, 2020 -- Monday, Nov. 9, 2020

ROMULUS, Mich. – At least one of the two people Michigan State Police have in custody in connection with the death of Egypt Covington was arraigned Sunday. According to authorities, Timothy Eugene Moore, a 34-year-old man from Toledo, was arraigned Sunday afternoon on one count of homicide at the 34th District Court in Romulus. Covington, 27, was shot and killed inside her Van Buren Township home on June 23, 2017. When her body was found, her hands were bound with Christmas lights and she had been shot in the head. UPDATE: Timothy Eugene Moore, 34 years old from Toledo, Ohio was arraigned this afternoon on one count of Homicide in the 34th District Court for the murder of Egypt Covington.