Michigan police officers hit dogs with their patrol vehicle and fatally shot one of them after they were allegedly acting aggressively near a school playground.

The Michigan DNR has opened its annual land auction event for bids.

The Michigan DNR is almost ready to open its annual land auction event for bids.

“I feel like my baby was in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Jones explained. “I don’t think the bullets were meant for her.”

Firefighters and equipment from Oakland, Macomb, and Livingston Counties are being deployed to a Northern Michigan paper mill fire that has been burning for four days.

MENOMINEE, Mich. – A former sheriff’s deputy accused in the sexual assault of a teenage boy in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge. Brian W. Helfert of Menominee pleaded guilty in court Friday to attempted accosting for immoral purposes, which carries a penalty of up to two years. “I wish to plead guilty, your honor,” Helfert said in court, according to The EagleHerald in Marinette, Wisconsin. He also acknowledged “inappropriate” statements made to the teenage victim who he knew through his assignment as a Menominee County juvenile crime investigator and school resource officer. Helfert was fired from the Menominee County Sheriff’s Department in December 2019.