Detroit and Michigan News

Taylor Lautner is at the center of a hurricane, and loving it. The 17-year-old actor and Grand Rapids native is relentlessly upbeat as he talks about the exciting new turn his life has taken: playing Jacob Black, a Quiliute Indian who shapeshifts into a wolf, in "The Twilight Saga: New Moon."

Wayne County began mobilizing its H1N1 vaccination efforts by creating a makeshift traveling doctor's office to administer shots today to several hundred preschoolers.

Federal officials say DNA evidence shows the aggressive Asian carp may have breached the electronic barrier designed to prevent it from invading the Great Lakes.

The City Council delivered an early holiday present to strippers today, taking no action on proposed rules to require them to wear pasties and keep their distance from patrons.

Detectives and accident experts with the Oakland County Sheriff's department are investigating today the police pursuit of a driver in Oakland County who was Tasered by officers and later died.

Economists at the University of Michigan say that by the time the state's downturn ends, Michigan will have lost nearly 1 million jobs since 2000.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told a crowd of law enforcement and community and Muslim leaders Thursday that the Justice Department "is again open for business."

Detroit --The man accused of paying a handyman $20 to torch a house in a bungled insurance scam that ended in the death of a city firefighter will stand trial for murder, a judge ruled Thursday.

Hanging out inside a burned-out drug house in Detroit one night in August, Fredrick Singletone knew something wasn't right about the "clean and quiet" young man sitting on the couch.

Detroit -- A judge on Thursday sentenced a former director of Cobo Center to 14 months in prison for his role in a City Hall bribery scandal, ignoring pleas from federal prosecutors for greater leniency.