LANSING (AP) — A missing 2-year-old Michigan girl who disappeared during an attack on her mother was found dead nearly 100 miles away in Detroit, three days after she vanished. Wynter Cole Smith’s body was discovered Wednesday evening by FBI agents in an overgrown alley in a neighborhood ...
ST. CLAIR SHORES, Mich. (AP) — A man accused of kidnaping a Lansing toddler was arrested Monday in suburban Detroit but the girl was not with him, police said. Authorities were searching for 2-year-old Wynter Smith, a Black child with braided hair who was wearing a white shirt with ...
PARK TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A fireworks explosion in western Michigan killed one woman left nine other people with injuries ranging from critical to minor, the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department said. The explosion happened Monday, but a news release from the department did not say ...
JACKSON, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan county has agreed to pay $1.65 million to settle a lawsuit by a sheriff’s officer who said he suffered on the job, especially after secretly recording a sheriff making insulting remarks about women and minorities. Steve Rand, who was Jackson County ...
LANSING — People who are sexually assaulted under the guise of medical treatment in Michigan will be further protected when coming forward, and their abusers will receive stricter punishments under legislation signed Thursday by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The long-sought changes to Michigan’s ...
DETROIT — The Detroit area woke up Wednesday to some of the worst air quality in the United States as smoke from Canada’s wildfires settled over most of the Great Lakes region and unhealthy haze spread southward, as far as Missouri and Kentucky. The Environmental Protection Agency’s ...