A Detroit civil rights attorney has filed two lawsuits against the Detroit Police Department and the Warren Police Department, alleging officers used excessive force in two separate incidents involving his clients.

Detroit resident Debbie Allen was deeply involved in the recent mayoral primary, volunteering for Todd Perkins’ campaign. Now that Perkins is out of the race, Allen’s vote is up for grabs.

Here’s where you’ll find the 2025 Detroit Primary Election results for mayor.

The race for Detroit’s next mayor is set to pit a longtime City Council member against a popular pastor, after council President Mary Sheffield and megachurch leader Solomon Kinloch were the top two vote-getters in Tuesday’s nonpartisan primary.

Detroit voters will take a key step toward choosing a new mayor in the municipal primary on Tuesday, when nine candidates will appear on the ballot in the city’s first open-seat mayoral race in a dozen years.

Police are investigating a case of inappropriate text messages being sent to a young girl from a fellow student in Macomb County.

The backlog in the Wayne County court system is so behind that jury trials are being scheduled into 2024.

Reports of hazing at De La Salle High School led Warren police to investigate and now one of the football players named in the scandal is suing the department.

Residents in Detroit will be asked on the November ballot whether they want to change a specific section of the city charter. The ballot language approved by a Wayne County judge Friday afternoon asks voters a yes or no question.

Videos from several Taylor police officers’ body cameras show them swarming a man in his vehicle after being pulled over on April 1, 2020, in the parking of a gas station.

A mother said her daughter never received a paycheck, only taking home whatever patrons left in the tip jar.

Michigan Southern Christian Leadership President, the Rev. Aaron McCarthy, said the recent circulating petition on reparation isn’t all it’s pushed out to be.

Multiple organizations are making a serious case for reparations in the City of Detroit.

GROSSE POINTE SHORES, Mich. – A local attorney who was recently ticketed for his Black Lives Matter sign now has a new set of problems. While the ticket was thrown out, Todd Perkins is dealing with hate mail being sent to his home. Inside the letter sent to his Grosse Pointe Shores home was a poem full of racial slurs and signage designed to be a jab at his Black Lives Matter sign in the front yard. Why do people think that Black Lives Suck,” said Perkins. There was a return address on the hate mail sent to Perkins.

FERNDALE, Mich. - The Ferndale Police Department has been targeted in a lawsuit after a traffic stop reportedly led to a body cavity search. Police body camera footage is the cornerstone of the case. Police engaged in a traffic stop with a rental car at the Meijer on Eight Mile Road. Police said they had seen Haliburton moving suspiciously and frisked him. Police deny that a cavity search was conducted, but Haliburton and attorney Todd Perkins argue otherwise.