Tecumseh woman arrested after police chase
TECUMSEH — A Tecumseh woman was arrested on a long list of charges the day after leading Tecumseh Police officers on a high speed chase through multiple jurisdictions.Tina Pisamai Dotson, 42, of...
View ArticleState appeals court panel rejects murder appeal
ADRIAN — A Michigan Court of Appeals panel has rejected an Inkster man's appeals of his conviction and sentences in a 2016 murder case.The three judges were not pursuaded by arguments made on behalf of...
View ArticleActive shooter training next week at judicial building
ADRIAN — There may appear to be some commotion Friday, Sept. 13, at the Rex B Martin Judicial Building but passersby need not worry.Starting at 1 p.m., judicial building employees and area law...
View ArticleMichigan Chief Justice McCormack to present Adrian College Constitution Day...
ADRIAN — Chief Justice Bridget Mary McCormack of the Michigan Supreme Court, will be the guest speaker at Adrian College’s 10th annual Philip J. Prygoski Constitution Day address.The event from noon to...
View ArticleAppeal of verdict, award to Adrian doctor rejected
ADRIAN — ProMedica and a nurse manager at Bixby Hospital remain liable for the more than $1.8 million awarded by a Lenawee County Circuit Court jury to an obstetrician who sued over his loss of...
View ArticleJury: Ohio woman guilty of murder in Bedford stabbing
An Ohio woman faces life in prison after a Monroe County jury found her guilty of fatally stabbing her drug dealer in Bedford Township.After about 2½ hours of deliberation over two days, Jessica Lynn...
View ArticleSentencing postponed in animal cruelty case
ADRIAN — Sentencing in the animal cruelty case of Sharon Kay Evans, 54, was postponed Wednesday pending a motion from the defendant.Evans was scheduled to be sentenced in Lenawee County Circuit Court...
View ArticleMan found guilty in overdose deaths
ADRIAN — A Detroit man was convicted on charges related to two overdose deaths from 2018 last week in Lenawee County Circuit Court.Demetrius Fitzgerald Jenkins, 30, was charged with two counts of...
View ArticleEvent offers chance to clear criminal record
ADRIAN — A group of Lenawee County legal agencies are banding together to help citizens expunge criminal records that are stopping them from getting jobs or proper housing.The Lenawee County Bar...
View ArticleMan charged in knife assault
ADRIAN — A Tecumseh man is charged with assault with intent to commit murder and other offenses following an altercation Sunday in Adrian that ended with a man being stabbed.Travis James Berns, 22,...
View ArticleMan arrested in Adrian Mall store robbery
ADRIAN — Police have arrested a man in connection with the robbery of a store at the Adrian Mall in March.Corbin Timothy Butler, 21, of Adrian is expected to be arraigned today in Lenawee County...
View ArticleDeal reached to treat 17-year-old offenders as juveniles
LANSING — A Michigan legislative committee on Thursday backed bipartisan bills that would raise the age at which criminal defendants would be automatically treated as adults, following a compromise to...
View ArticleMan sent to prison for child sex abuse
ADRIAN — An Adrian man was sent to prison for as much as 50 years Friday after he pleaded no contest to a criminal sexual conduct charge.Lenawee County Circuit Judge Michael R. Olsaver sentenced...
View ArticleMan convicted in stabbing death
Raymond Blanchong is second person convicted in death of man's body found in December along Lipp Highway
View ArticleMan pleads no contest in fatal Ogden Township crash
ADRIAN — A Perrysburg, Ohio, man pleaded no contest Wednesday in Lenawee County Circuit Court to reckless driving causing death in an April fatal crash.Matthew Sion Wallace, 35, was southbound on...
View ArticleStudy: Few Michigan residents try to get convictions erased
LANSING — Few Michigan residents are taking advantage of a legal option that allows people to erase their criminal convictions, even though an expungement can open doors to housing, student loans and...
View ArticleMan sentenced in Tecumseh road-rage incident
ADRIAN — A Tecumseh man was sentenced Monday in Lenawee County District Court in a case in which he was accused of pointing a loaded handgun at a man and his daughter in a road-rage incident.Tyler...
View ArticleMan sentenced in drug overdose deaths
ADRIAN — A Detroit man who was found guilty of supplying heroin to two individuals who later died as a result was sentenced to more than 18 years in prison Thursday in Lenawee County Circuit...
View ArticleEvans sentenced to six months in jail in animal cruelty case
ADRIAN — Sharon Kay Evans, who pleaded no contest to abusing more than 10 animals that the Lenawee County Sheriff’s Office confiscated from her property nearly two years ago, was sentenced Wednesday to...
View ArticleWoman to spend life in prison for fatal stabbing
MONROE — An Ohio woman will spend the rest of her life in prison after she and her fiance fatally stabbed their drug dealer in Bedford Township and dumped his body near the Michigan-Ohio border.Jessica...
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