U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade said the case against Dr. Farid Fata is the most egregious case of Medicare fraud she’s ever seen.
Former candidate’s lawyer says unusual settlement is “breakthrough” for political candidates who can’t meet “actual malice” threshold.
County crosses $5 million milestone in foreclosure prevention funds. More than $42,600 has helped Bloomfield Township homeowners.
A new USA Today/Suffolk University poll says U.S. Rep. Gary Peters has a 9-point lead over former secretary of state Terry Lynn Land.
After months of wrangling, a $2 billion accord will provide for system upgrades for the next four decades.
Detroit is so broke that firefighters gin up crude alert systems consisting of coin-filled cans and other noisy contraptions.
Gov. Rick Snyder, then President Barack Obama have to sign off before federal aid can come to southeast Michigan.
Rochester Hills is the latest of several municipalities getting moratoriums on gas and oil exploration as state considers rules.
The Michigan Department of Transportation says multiplefactors contributed to massive freeway funding, but state lacks money to fix them
Biden's remarks kick off parade, which will proceed down Michigan Avenue and then Woodward Avenue to Hart Plaza on the Detroit riverfront.
L. Ron Hubbard’s “non-religious moral code” recommended to help Flint get in touch with past traumas, choose joy over violence.
Judge asked to continue moratorium of shutoffs, but get-tough approach has helped some cities turn deficits into surpluses.
State wants judge to wait until 6th Circuit and other court decisions, attorney says different issues at stake.
As courts settle the legality of same-sex marriage in Michigan, couples like Leslie Thompson and Cindy Norlin are caught in legal limbo.
Climate change has made “100 year floods” the new normal, officials say after devastating 2014 Flood.
A treasury and IBM dispute could cost Michigan over $1 billion plus interest after July 14 ruling.
Many observers think the issue is headed for a showdown before the U.S. Supreme Court – and there’s a surprising development in the GOP.
I wrote a blog about the Twp. millages on the August 5, 2014 ballot after reading an opinion piece written by Twp. Supervisor, Leo Savoie...
Republicans are defending an operative who showed up at a private fundraiser for Democrat Mark Schauer with a tiny camera hidden in her eyeglass frames.
Not everyone agrees powerful pyrotechnics are a problem. “Repealing [the law] will not get rid of the summertime fireworks displays by the neighborhood idiots,” one Patch reader commented. “It just erases the tax revenue.”
Residents signing MoveOn.org petition say the Michigan Fireworks Safety Act, designed to increase tax revenue and create jobs, is making their neighborhoods sound like war zones and putting their safety at risk.
The landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed 50 years ago – 22 years before I was born – changing the course of my life and the lives of millions of other Americans of my generation.
Corrections Department spokesman says prison officials don’t think the maggots got into the food, but their presence near the food trays is “a serious and significant sanitary issue.”
"You wouldn't eat your lunch in a bathroom,” the executive director of the Michigan Breastfeeding Network said. “Why should our most precious and sweetest citizens have to eat in a bathroom?"
A civil liberties lawyer calls the move by the 6th Circuit – the first appeals court to hear several cases as once as gay marriage rulings make their way through the courts – "significant" and "very exciting."
A panel of three judges is scheduled to hear arguments on appeal of the landmark case that turned back a 10-year ban on same-sex marriage in Michigan.
Programs that expand access to healthy foods among low-income residents, train nursing students in teaching parents how to prevent infant deaths and curb gun violence are among those honored with National Association of Counties Achievement Awards.
Arthur Payton, the serial bank robber once profiled by Oprah Winfrey for hiring prostitutes to carry out his heists, will get a chance at a shorter sentence.
The director of a poll conducted exclusively for two Detroit news organizations says it’s too early to tell if the mood of likely voters has changed.
If the Legislature approves a citizen-initiated petition to let the Natural Resources Commission decide wolf hunts. ballot initiatives by citizens who want to protect the wolves would be moot.
The mortgage crisis of the Great Recession dropped property values, but the the bond rating agency still assigned its top rating to Oakland’s $25 million in tax anticipation notes
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says he supports the right of breastfeeding mothers to nurse their babies in public and wants to “get it right," but worries about unintended consequences.
Gay rights advocates say they’ll put a referendum on the 2016 ballot if courts turn back a lower court ruling declaring Michigan’s voter-backed ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
Attorney General Bill Schuette argues the high court decision upholding voters’ rights to decide legislative issues should be applied in his appeal of a lower court decision declaring voters' ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional.
The former president's advice at the Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner echoes that of Democratic operatives, who say Democrats who voted for the Affordable Care Act need to "sell it and sell it hard."
With the economic benefits of legalized marijuana working for Colorado, is your state the next in line?
" ... If we do not take advantage of this unique opportunity, that opportunity, in all likelihood, will be lost forever,” federal bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes said.
Details of the lawsuit will be announced at a Monday afternoon news conference.
Negotiations between Detroit and the suburbs to create a regional water authority to help restructure Detroit's debt are in the "angry" phase, Wayne County lawyers said.
Birmingham residents will vote on a $21 million bond issue to update Baldwin Library and demolish additions in May. In August, Bloomfield Hills residents will decide whether to extend the contract to use the Birmingham facility.