WATERFORD TOWNSHIP

Residents at the Waterford Square Apartments in Oakland County say they have been without working heat for weeks.

A Michigan judge sentenced a sex offender on Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the brutal 2020 murder of a professional poker

An Oakland County family is mourning as a daughter was killed with a wrench in a domestic attack.

Oakland County voters are being asked to vote on a 10-year transit millage which asks 0.95 mills per $1,000 in a home’s taxable value.

A 37-year-old man was shot in a road rage incident in Waterford Township.

A man is facing seven felony charges in connection with a string of thefts and break-ins across Oakland County.

WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, MI – A 33-year-old former sheriff’s deputy is facing charges after he allegedly solicited sex from a teen in the anonymous Whisper app, officials said. Jared Frederick Salisbury, 33, of Waterford Township, was also fired from the Oakland County Sheriff’s Office following an internal investigation, WDIV Local 4 reports. Salisbury allegedly had a sexual conversation, including photos and pricing for sex acts, with who he thought was a 15-year-old girl, MLive previously reported. However, the person he was speaking to was a man who posed as a teen girl with the intent of catching sexual predators. He then reported the conversation to the sheriff’s office, which linked the conversation to Salisbury.

An Oakland County deputy was fired for trying to meet up with a 15-year-old girl for sex, according to officials.

A Pontiac man has been charged with murder in connection with the stabbing of a Waterford Township resident.

A 36-year-old was stabbed to death after an argument between two men in Oakland County, officials said.

Officials are still searching a landfill in Macomb County for the remains of Zion Foster as her family waits for answers on her disappearance.

WATERFORD, MI — Two Oakland County companies have been fined $10 million for selling aftermarket parts designed to bypass automobile emissions controls. According to court filings, the EPA began directing Piccolo in 2018 to halt the manufacture, sales and installation of components which disable or bypass emission controls. Diesel Ops of Waterford Township and Orion Diesel of Bingham Farms sold “delete kits” and other hardware and software for Ford Powerstroke and Dodge Cummins engines. In August, repair shops in Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska were fined for installing diesel cheat equipment. North Carolina “diesel tuner” Matthew Sidney Geouge was fined $2 million and sentenced to a year in jail in June for selling defeat devices through his company Spartan Diesel Technologies.

The new video game and electronics store is set to open on Friday with a customized mural, store swag, a raffle for a free PlayStation 5 and other giveaways.

Officials found the body of a man in his 20s floating in an Oakland County lake.

Despite a whole lot of orange barrels and road-closed signs in the area, one Oakland County community wants everybody to know, yes, they are open for business as Keego Harbor finds itself surrounded by roadwork.

A 70-year-old man was fatally struck by a car crossing Woodward Avenue in Pontiac.

Here’s where to find Michigan election results for the Waterford Township primary election on Aug. 2, 2022.

A woman was killed and a man was injured Wednesday when one truck crossed the center line and struck another truck head-on in Novi, police said.

Officials need help to identify two women involved with using stolen credit cards to make purchases around Metro Detroit.

Firefighters from seven different cities and townships around Oakland County helped battle a fire that destroyed several apartments in Auburn Hills.

Many believe the death and burial of a circus elephant named Little Jennie in Oakland County to be a myth. Others actually recall the event vividly.

An Eastpointe mother who spent weeks searching for her missing teenage daughter only to find out her cousin had thrown the girl’s body in a dumpster delivered a powerful victim impact statement Wednesday in court.

An Eastpointe mother who spent weeks searching for her missing teenage daughter only to find out her cousin had thrown the girl’s body in a dumpster delivered a powerful victim impact statement Wednesday in court.

The cousin of a missing Eastpointe teenager was sentenced Wednesday for lying to police before he ultimately admitted that he had thrown her body in a dumpster weeks earlier because she stopped breathing while they were smoking marijuana.

There have been increased power outages around Cass Lake in Oakland County lately. It doesn’t appear to be faulty wires or old transformers but swans flying into the lines. And when it happens, it’s not pretty.

A self-described “sick monster” from Waterford Township has been sentenced to decades in prison after he sexually exploited at least 10 children through means such as blackmail, child pornography and assault.

Tuesday is an election day in Michigan -- that is, if you’re a voter in one of four Michigan House districts with a special election race.

Two men who were arrested in Bloomfield Township after they robbed a store at gunpoint and zip-tied the employees working there have been charged, police said.

Two people were arrested in Bloomfield Township after they robbed a store at gunpoint and zip-tied the employees working there, police said.

Residents at Waterford Square Apartments in Waterford Township say they’ve been without hot water since the beginning of the year.

A Waterford Township man is expected to plead guilty in the alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

A special delivery from across the country arrived at a food bank in Oakland County. The key delivery was made to a Lighthouse food warehouse in Waterford Township on Thursday (Jan. 27). It comes from a church in Utah. The church realized that the food program at Lighthouse was in trouble, not only did the church send funds -- but also two dozen pallets of food.

Michigan officials put $17 billion into education in the 2022 budget, but the need is much larger than that.

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Officials have provided updates on 11 students from Detroit, Wyandotte, Harper Woods and Waterford Township who were either charged or taken into custody for school threats.

An Mason Middle School student was arrested after posting a threatening message to social media, according to Waterford Township police.

A 13-year-old boy has been charged with a 20-year felony after he posted a threat directed at a middle school in Waterford Township, police said.

Two juveniles who are facing serious criminal charges escaped from the Oakland County Children’s Village over the weekend, police said.

A Pontiac man has been charged with trying to kill a man who says he was breaking up a fight outside a bar, police said.

Thieves smashed their way through a glass wall at a Highland Township car dealership while making off with four high-end vehicles, police said.

Noah Kerridge, 20, had been missing since April 19, 2021. Police say foul play is not suspected.

Gardner-White and the American Red Cross are teaming up to host blood drives on Aug. 19 and 20 in Metro Detroit.

Gardner-White and the American Red Cross are teaming up to host blood drives on Aug. 19 and 2 in Metro Detroit.

An argument over spilled beer led to a shooting overnight outside a bar in Pontiac, officials said.

Four men who have been stealing catalytic converters, some in multiple states, were arrested in Michigan, police said.

The B-24 Liberator, the plane that was used in World War II, was built in Metro Detroit.

Two people were shot overnight in the parking lot of Altadona’s Restaurant in Pontiac, police said.

A 28-year-old man drowned in a Pontiac lake while trying to retrieve his kayak, which had floated away from the dock, police said.

Brionna Johnson was an aspiring nurse and died in a fire that broke out in her apartment in Waterford Township.

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Neighbors say the smoke was so intense that firefighters had to put up their ladder so residents could climb out their windows.

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The Oakland County Medical Examiner’s office confirmed a woman died in a Waterford Township apartment complex fire on Saturday.

An adult said the grade school hockey player should hang himself after a bad game, that he’d provide the rope and would help tie the knot.

WATERFORD, MI – At least some of the dead swans recovered from a Michigan lake in April were killed by a parasite, not poison as originally suspected, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Wildlife biologists confirmed that a disease caused by a parasitic flatworm called Verminous Hemorrhagic Ulcerative Enteritis killed three mute swans found dead near Maceday Lake in Waterford Township. Since January, DNR conservation officers have retrieved eight dead mute swans from the lake. The disease of waterfowl is caused by a parasitic flatworm that is passed to birds when they ingest certain freshwater snails. In Michigan, the disease primarily affects mute swans.

COVID-19 safety measures abundant at event Sunday at the Suburban Collection Showplace, including masking, use of hand sanitizers and social distancing.

GENESEE COUNTY, MI -- Three Oakland County lawyers have been charged with multiple felonies after allegedly filing fraudulent documents in Genesee County courts. Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton and county sheriff Chris Swanson announced the charges at a Tuesday, April 6, news conference. Investigators through the Genesee County Sheriff’s Office uncovered hundreds of allegedly fraudulent court filings by Fishman Group law firm. Fraudulent filings uncovered by the department were not only found in Genesee County, Swanson said. Ichim and Marc and Ryan Fishman were arraigned in Genesee County District Court Tuesday, April 6, according to district court documents.

Several Donald Trump supporters during a recent Michigan campaign rally said they would be suspicious of the results if Joe Biden wins the upcoming election. Watch the video here:Vicki Guck of West Bloomfield said she would not accept a Biden win. “I think there’s too much fraud going on, lot of mail-in voting, lot of harvesting," she said. "I don’t trust it.”Guck, along with Eric Cooper of Waterford, expects the election could be decided in the U.S. Supreme Court. "I don’t know if that comes up to the Supreme Court, which is just more reason for the new justice to be confirmed.”Most were confident that Donald Trump had enough support to be reelected.

WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, MI – A 38-year-old southeast Michigan man is accused of murdering his wife while their 13-year-old daughter was home. William Michell Kuchon, of Waterford Township, is charged with premeditated murder in the death of his wife who died after she was stabbed in the chest early Monday morning, Oct. 5, WXYZ Detroit reports. His 39-year-old wife was found with a stab wound to her chest. The couple’s 13-year-old daughter was found inside the home and uninjured, the report said. READ MORE:5 charged with felonies after fight with machete, baseball batPolice identify early morning homicide victim on Saginaw’s East SideArgument at RiverTown Crossings led to driver’s fatal shooting, police sayPolice identify married couple found dead in Ottawa County

click to enlarge Shutterstock.comA Waterford Township cop has been charged with two counts of criminal sexual conduct, but authorities arent saying much about what happened.Officer Kevin Thompson, 29, was placed on unpaid administrative leave in late May after township officials learned he had been charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct, a felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison.Thompson is due back in Genesee Countys 67th District on Monday for a preliminary examination to determine whether the evidence is sufficient to warrant a circuit court trial.The case stems from an alleged incident while Thompson was off-duty in Grand Blanc on Dec. 28, according to court records. But neither police nor the Genesee County Prosecutors Office would elaborate on the allegations.Authorities are typically more forthcoming after someone has been charged.Township officials said they took quick action after learning about the charges. On Thursday, May 30, 2019 the Waterford Police Department became aware that Officer Kevin Thompson had been charged with two counts of criminal sexual conduct, 3rd degree, by the Genesee County Prosecutor, the township said in a news release. A woman told Michigan State Police that the chief was intoxicated and forcefully pushed his groin against her butt after making other unwanted sexual advances on June 8. Other women on the bus said the chief "smacked" their butts.