A civil lawsuit on behalf of dozens of families whose young children were sexually assaulted by a substitute teacher in Highland Township was filed Monday morning against Huron Valley Schools and multiple others.

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A Waterford man has been arrested in connection with an alleged sextortion case that ended in a sexual and physical assault.

“It’s the definition of a predator.”

Lawmakers are pushing for school system reform after a disturbing child neglect case in Pontiac.

A fourth man has been charged in connection to the murder of an Oakland County marijuana grow business owner, officials said.

Three men were charged in the killing of an Oakland County business owner.

Bouchard said he plans to go to Lansing to speak to lawmakers to discuss when and how violent offenders are given parole and how that could impact public safety.

Timothy Allen Daugherty, a contract substitute teacher at Spring Mills Elementary in Oakland County’s Huron Valley School District, is facing charges of criminal sexual conduct involving students, with allegations dating back to April.

One suspect has been arrested for allegedly posing as a fake DTE worker to enter a Rochester Hills home and killing the homeowner. The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office said the suspect was arrested Saturday in Shreveport, Louisiana.

Dr. Oumair Aejaz, an Oakland County doctor, faces 17 new felony charges for the alleged sexual abuse of a 6-year-old child, bringing his total number of charges to at least 27.

The Oakland County First Responders have rescued a missing teen with autism.

“The victimization is so broad and the perversion so great that we’re still trying to wrap our arms around it,” Bouchard said. “We have some very sick people in the world.”

“It is an everyday thing in our communities across the country. There needs to be more focus on mental health for the community, more mental health resources in a wider continuum of care, both inpatient and outpatient. It’s not there."

A Michigan sheriff says two of the nine people wounded in a weekend shooting at a splash pad remain hospitalized in critical condition.

Michigan authorities are investigating a mass shooting at a splash pad in suburban Detroit.

What authorities are urging Metro Detroit homeowners to do as crews of thieves continue to target high-end houses.

What authorities are urging Metro Detroit homeowners to do as crews of thieves continue to target high-end houses.

Neighbors packed Christ Church Cranbrook Monday night to find out the latest on non-American gangs targeting high-end homes in Metro Detroit.

A traveling band of thieves that was in the spotlight months ago appears to be back at work targeting high-end homes when the owners go out of town.

“Highly skilled thieves” are targeting expensive homes in Oakland County communities, according to police.

Highly skilled thieves from outside the country, preying on high net-worth homes across the region, are coming in waves.

Residents are being asked to stay alert after a number of “high-end burglaries” were reported in multiple Oakland County communities, the sheriff announced Tuesday night.

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When Dr. Calandra Green didn't arrive at work on Thursday, her Dubois County Health Department colleagues contacted family members.

When Dr. Calandra Green didn't arrive at work on Thursday, her Dubois County Health Department colleagues contacted family members.

The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office is warning residents about a phone scam threatening arrest for failing to appear for jury duty.

The video had more than 18 million views at the time this story was published.

The Detroit Enforcement Administration’s Detroit office seized 20 kilograms of fentanyl—enough to kill everyone in Michigan.

Monica Cannady had not been herself lately as the 35-year-old mother of three had become increasingly paranoid, believing everyone was out to get her.

The mother who froze to death with her two sons in Pontiac on Sunday reportedly suffered a mental health crisis that may be related to her husband’s 2021 murder.

Tate Myre's family started the 42 Strong Foundation to provide peer-to-peer mentoring. The foundation pairs older students with those getting ready to transition into high school.

Accused Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley is expected to plead guilty at a hearing on Monday which would mean that a trial is highly unlikely.

There’s new information on a case involving an Oakland County Deputy. Local 4 has learned that the deputy has now been fired for trying to solicit sex from an underage girl online.

A sheriff says a 48-year-old man has been charged with open murder in connection with a fatal assault at the General Motors assembly plant in Orion Township.

A man was hit and killed while riding his bike and a woman was killed after rear-ending another car in Oakland County on Wednesday, incidents that happened within 30 minutes of each other.

The decisions made by police in Uvalde, Texas are drastically different from how officers reacted during the Oxford High School shooting.

The Oakland County Board of Commissioners approved more than $3.2 million in resources in response to the shooting at Oxford High School last November.

It’s great news that a 14-year-old student shot in the neck and chest was released from the hospital. However, the memorial continues to grow for the students who lost their lives.

A judge has imposed a combined $1 million bond for the parents of the Michigan teen charged with killing four students at Oxford High School, hours after police said they were caught hiding in a commercial building.

A Michigan school leader says a third party will investigate events at Oxford High School leading up to a school shooting that left four students dead and six other students and a teacher wounded.

The parents of a teen accused of killing four students at a Michigan high school have been charged with involuntary manslaughter.

Four students were killed and eight other people were injured in a shooting at Oxford High School on Tuesday, officials said.

Law enforcement officials are holding a news conference Thursday afternoon to address what they are calling "a tidal wave of copycat threats" to Metro Detroit school districts in the wake of the horrific shooting at Oxford High School.

The superintendent of a Michigan school district says no discipline was necessary for a teen who was summoned to the office a few hours before four students were fatally shot.

Michigan prosecutors are charging a teen with terrorism in a deadly mass shooting at his high school, a novel approach made possible by a law enacted after the 9/11 attacks nearly 20 years ago.

A 15-year-old boy has been charged with murder and terrorism for a shooting that killed four fellow students and injured others at a Michigan high school.

A group of citizens and sheriff’s deputies in Oakland County were honored by Sheriff Mike Bouchard for going above and beyond.

Deputies said the home was occupied by four adults at the time. No one was injured.

Two people have been charged with arson after a woman’s paystub was found at the scene of a home under construction in Oakland Township.

Authorities said the Pontiac man was traveling eastbound in the westbound lane of Michigan Avenue just after midnight when he ran a red light and crashed into the patrol vehicle, which driving northbound on Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard.

A man is hospitalized with serious injuries after reportedly disregarding a red light and crashing into a deputy’s vehicle in Pontiac early Friday morning.

A woman trapped under her car was rescued by Oakland County Sheriff’s deputies after a hit-and-run incident in Pontiac.

A woman trapped under her car was rescued by Oakland County Sheriff’s deputies after a hit-and-run incident in Pontiac.

A man from Holly is accused of intentionally striking his ex-girlfriend’s brother with his truck

The incident happened on March 12 at the home in Oxford Township. The family was having their home inspected by Kevin Wayne VanLuven before its sale, police said.

A series of 911 calls leads authorities to a discovery in Orion township where a 4-month-old baby boy was found lying face down in a ravine Wednesday morning.

A 4-month-old baby is expected to be OK after he was found lying face down in a wooded area on the banks of an Orion Township creek on Wednesday, police said.

CLAWSON, Mich. – A barricaded situation in Clawson came to an end Sunday after the suspect was found dead inside the home. Officers found the teenaged girl, who allegedly had been shot by her stepfather. AdUpdate: Clawson police: 15-year-old girl dies after being shot by stepfather at home“It was a young lady involved. “My understanding is that she was shot in the back.”Police said the suspect had fled from a neighbor’s house and barricaded himself inside his own house. Police also said a neighbor, who was trying to help the teen girl, was shot in the leg and taken to a hospital.

CLAWSON, Mich. – Police are dealing with a barricaded situation in Clawson. UPDATE: Clawson police: 15-year-old girl dies after being shot by stepfather at homeAccording to authorities, a teenager had been shot and the suspected shooter has been barricaded inside a home on 14 Mile Road, near Main Street and Washington Avenue. Police have surrounded the home and have been trying to talk the suspected shooter out. Clawson police were joined by officers with the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department, Royal Oak Police Department, Troy Police Department and others. We have negotiators here and a psychologist,” said Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard.

OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. – Registered nurse Jessica Phillips was working a shift Saturday in the labor and delivery unit at Royal Oak Beaumont Hospital when she was notified of an incoming trauma downstairs. But it was not an expectant mother and instead her 9-year-old son George. He had been in a sledding incident and was later airlifted to Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit with a brain injury and broken thigh bone. RELATED: Boy, 9, in critical condition after sled crashes into car in Rochester HillsAt about 1 p.m., George was in a Rochester Hills neighborhood, where authorities said his father was pulling the child in his plastic sled behind a Jeep Wrangler. It has too many challenging implications for safety,” said Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard.

Emergency crews are investigating after a plane crashed into a Lyon Township home on January, 2, 2021. Officials are investigating after a small plane crashed into a Lyon Township home on Saturday, killing three people. Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard said the three people who died in the crash are believed to be the pilot and occupants of the plane. WATCH Local 4 News at 11Metro Detroit weather: Freezing Saturday evening gives way to snowfall SundaySaturday evening will be cloudy and colder. Sunday will be cloudy with light snow, especially in the morning and midday.

LYON TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Three people have died after a small plane crashed into a home in Lyon Township on Saturday, according to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office. Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard said the three people are believed to be the pilot and occupants of the plane. UPDATE: Businessman, wife, son killed in Lyon Township plane crashA family of five inside the home were able to make it out safely. Plane Crash**We have confirmed there are three fatalities at the scene believed to be the occupants and pilot of the plane. — Mike Bouchard (@MikeJBouchard) January 2, 2021The Lyon Township Fire Department and other emergency crews responded to the crash on Saturday on Dakota Drive near Grand River and Pontiac Trail.

Between a global pandemic, social unrest, a major U.S. election -- and everything else happening in the world -- the news did not stop in 2020. We’re taking a look at the most-read local stories on ClickOnDetroit this year, minus COVID-19 related coverage (because pretty much every most-read story was COVID related). Art Van closes all storesFrom March: The Warren-based furniture chain Art Van Furniture announced it would close all stores. Art Van was founded by Art Van Elslander in 1959. Flight to Michigan makes emergency landing after bloody fightFrom May: A Macomb County woman said she was in shock when a fight broke out as she was flying back home.

LIVONIA, Mich. – A deputy with the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office was shot at on Interstate 96 in the Livonia area Saturday night, Sheriff Mike Bouchard said in a tweet Sunday afternoon. “Last night, one of our deputies was traveling at approximately 2000 hours, between Merriman and Farmington Road exit. A blue Mercury Milan slowed down and pulled up along-side his vehicle," read the tweet. pic.twitter.com/nbWOo67zAr — Mike Bouchard (@MikeJBouchard) November 1, 2020Bourchard said a man, described as Black and in his mid-20s to early 30s, fired a shot at the deputy, hitting his vehicle. Anyone with information is asked to contact Livonia police at 734-466-2470 or Crime Stoppers at 800-Speak-Up.

(Todd McInturf/Detroit News via AP)A white couple was arrested after at least one handgun was pulled on a Black woman and her daughters during a videotaped confrontation in a restaurant parking lot in Michigan, authorities said Thursday. Cellphone video captured the confrontation Wednesday outside a Chipotle in Orion Township, about 40 miles (64 kilometers) northwest of Detroit. Takelia Hill, who is Black, told the newspaper that it happened after the white woman bumped into Hill's teenage daughter as they were entering the fast food restaurant. The video footage starts after that, in the parking lot. A woman shouts, She's got a gun on me! and urges someone in the parking lot to call the police.

OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. – In preparing our story on three local sheriffs who have gone on the record as not enforcing Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s Executive Orders, Local 4 reporter Paula Tutman asked for all three sheriffs to join her for an interview to clarify their positions. READ: Several Michigan sheriffs say they won’t enforce Governor Whitmer’s Executive OrdersOakland County Sheriff Michael “Mike” Bouchard clarified his position in a later interview. READ: Shiawassee County Sheriff releases statement regarding Gov. Whitmer’s Executive OrdersWatch a portion of the interview above.

WATERFORD, Mich. – Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard had just gotten out of a meeting and was in a suit and tie driving down M-59 near Telegraph Road when he saw what looked like a police SUV. “He looks at me and says, ‘Who are you?’ And I said, ‘I’m the sheriff. Bouchard said there was a fake radar mounted on the dashboard and what was supposed to look like a computer aided dispatch computer. The driver is currently in custody at the Oakland County Jail and charges are pending. “We want to know if anybody had been stopped by this vehicle,” Bouchard said.

‘I’m the sheriff. Who are you?’: Oakland County Sheriff pulls over man posing as a copPublished: February 6, 2020, 11:12 pmOakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard had just gotten out of a meeting and was in a suit and tie driving down M-59 near Telegraph Road when he saw what looked like a police SUV.

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. – A Bloomfield Hills man who used to be president of the Oakland Hills Caddie Scholarship Fund has been arrested for embezzling nearly $700,000 from the trust for his own personal use, according to officials. Oakland Hills officials requested a forensic audit, which revealed $697,000 had been embezzled and converted for Maass’ personal use, police said. They have to serve search warrants on banks and serve document warrants,” Bouchard said. Bouchard said Maass went to court assuming he’d get released in time for the Super Bowl. Maass didn’t make it to the Super Bowl.

OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. – The Local 4 Defenders took an exclusive look at a military training facility in Northern Michigan where Oakland County deputies practice emergency situations. “Over here, this is a mocked up police station,” Oakland County Capt. “There are so many different scenarios we might face,” Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard said. In one situation deputies entered a building as if it was a hostage situation. The hostage situation was moved to other locations and deputies practiced again.

"Lots of times, these videos are so blurry but, this one, it's very clear, " Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard said. Previous coverage:The peeping incidents are suspected to have begun in March in the Troy and Rochester Hills area. They escalated in July when police said the man in the video went into a Troy home and touched a woman. Police said he's connected to that incident and four other peeping incidents, and likely several more. Officials are asking anyone with information to contact either the Oakland County Sheriff's Department at 248-858-4950 or the Troy Police Department at 248-524-3477.

A fourth Michigan resident has died from Eastern Equine Encephalitis, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday. Brandon Roux:Showers will linger through the lunch hour and the winds shift from the east to the west by late morning W 5-15 mph gusting 20-25 mph. More local headlinesFor more Local News head to ClickOnDetroit.com/news/local. Submit a news tipTell us what's happening in your community -- submit a news tip to Local 4 and ClickOnDetroit right here. Tweets by Local4NewsCopyright 2019 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.

PONTIAC, Mich. - We're seeing more fallout from the unprecedented 147 line-item vetoes Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer used on the budgets presented to her by the Republican-led Legislature. She used her line-item veto power and cut nearly $1 billion out of the budget. Her line-item vetoes included nixing $375 million for roads, which means it's back to the drawing board for Whitmer and the Legislature. The vetoes are part of a strategy to force the Legislature to wheel and deal on a roads fix, among other hot button funding issues.

DETROIT - Here's what is coming up on Local 4 News at 11:Fatal fireThe family of two boys killed in a house fire in Eastpointe is speaking out for the first time since the deaths. State budgetOakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard is sharing how he feels about where law enforcement stands in the ongoing budget battle between Gov. Whitmer and the Legislature. Dallas murder sentencingThe brother of a murder victim forgave the former officer convicted in his death just moments after she was sentenced to prison for 10 years. Copyright 2019 by WDIV ClickOnDetroit - All rights reserved.

A seaplane crash-landed in Michigan and caught on fire after the crash. The pilot and a passenger were taken to the hospital but appear to have minor injuries, and no one on the ground was injured. INDEPENDENCE TWP, Mich. - Multiple emergency crews are on scene of a seaplane crash in the yard of a home in Independence Township near Detroit Michigan. According to the Oakland County Sheriff's Office, the sea plane crashed in a neighborhood on Greenview Dr. near Clarkston Rd. Sheriff Mike Bouchard said that the pilot and the passenger were taken to the hospital but appear to have minor injuries, and no one on the ground was injured.

OAKLAND COUNTY, Mich. - We are just days away from one of the biggest events of the summer, the Woodward Dream Cruise. Ahead of Saturday, Oakland County Sheriff Mike Bouchard is sending a message to anyone heading to Woodward Avenue for the festivities. Jeff Martin of Sterling Heights said he looks forward to bringing his Austin Healey to Woodward Avenue. "They need to enjoy the cruise, but just be a little more situationally aware," Bouchard said. The event is one of the safest, family-friendly events in Metro Detroit and Bouchard plans to keep it that way.