Michigan

A man identified as Paul allegedly raped a woman who had become sick and fell asleep on a bed at a party last October. However, the woman's friend who saw what was happening pushed the man off of her. Paul then put his clothes back on and left. The victim, hearing what happened from her friend filed charges two weeks later.

A Michigan elementary school teacher was bound, gagged and strangled to death in her apartment in the Dominican Republic, where she had been teaching.

An elderly man said he was waiting at a bus stop near Gratiot and State Fair Avenue when some guys walked up and started tormenting some of the people there. Philip Ramsey stepped up and told them to stop before they attacked, leaving him bloody in the middle of the road.

A Michigan man whose hobbies include ritualized combat with replica weapons from the Middle Ages says he wielded a battle ax he calls "my baby" to fend off an intruder.

A Michigan mother of five reportedly faces up to 93 days in jail for failing to return two overdue library books for two years.

Steve Curto's wife was expecting their son seven years ago when she suffered a devastating brain injury that resulted in complete memory loss.

A man who is a regular customer at an Oakland County gas station was arrested last week after he plowed his pickup truck through the front of a gas station while trying to spin donuts around the gas pumps.

Former U.S. Rep. John Conyers, one of the longest-serving members of Congress whose resolutely liberal stance on civil rights made him a political institution in Washington and back home in Detroit despite several scandals, has died. He was 90.

Panic, joy, shock: Dan Piepenbring felt them all when Prince plucked him to collaborate on his first memoir, followed by more shock and profound sadness at news of the superstar's death while the book was in its early stages.

A Michigan man who recently won the $80 million Powerball jackpot said he almost walked out of the store without buying tickets, but changed his mind at the last minute.

The Port Huron Police Department is investigating a murder suicide where they say a 35-year-old father shot and killed his young son and then himself.