A Washtenaw County magistrate charged the man police say is responsible for at least 4 sexual assaults in recent weeks. Daniel Bernard Jackson was arraigned for sexual assault related crimes in Washtenaw County Court Saturday.  Investigators tell 7 Action News three of the attacks happened on May 9. That is when he is accused of groping three girls ages 10 to 17

Ypsilanti police responded to a call yesterday afternoon about a resident being chased by someone with a gun. A 24-year-old man pulled a gun on a 17-year-old during an argument, according to police based on the results of the investigation. It occurred at about 11:50 a.m. Tuesday in the 400 block of South Adams Street.

Tory Verdi (pronounced VER-dee), an assistant women's basketball coach at the University of Kansas for the past two years, has been named the new head women's basketball coach at Eastern Michigan University, Director of Athletics Dr. Derrick Gragg announced today, April 26. The 39-year old Verdi has strong ties throughout the Midwest and has worked at every

Ypsilanti City Clerk Frances McMullen withdrew Friday as a candidate for the city manager position, Mayor Paul Schreiber said. The move wasn't expected by city officials, they said.
“I was surprised,” Schreiber said. “My understanding is when she was contacted to set up the interview time, she said she was withdrawing.

The Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office says they have a man in custody in connection with the sexual assaults of three girls in the West Willow area of Ypsilanti Township. The arrest comes just hours after police released pictures of a man wanted for questioning in connection with the case. The suspect is being questioned now. All three girls were walking to the school bus stop in Ypsilanti Township's West Willow neighborhood.

A pastor who told police about a teenager's confession to a sexual assault cannot testify against him, the Michigan appeals court said Wednesday, ruling that such admissions between clergy and a church member are confidential. Samuel Bragg, accompanied by his mother, spoke to the pastor of Metro Baptist Church in Belleville about the assault of a 9-year-old girl,

Heat forward LeBron James is the NBA's MVP for a third time, putting him alongside some of the game's all-time greats. A person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press that James will be announced Saturday as this year's winner of the league's top individual honor, and that he'll be formally presented with the trophy by Commissioner David Stern on Sunday afternoon

A Chicago jury convicted Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson's former brother-in-law on Friday of murdering her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in what prosecutors described as an act of vengeance by a jilted husband. Hudson, who expressed her undisguised disdain for William Balfour when she took the witness stand and endured weeks of excruciating testimony about the 2008 killings,

The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, U.S. officials said Monday. The plot involved an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas 2009.

"The Avengers" has exceeded all expectations and shattered box office records, but not everyone is pleased with the film. Some Bollywood actors and other Indians claim the Marvel release parrots the tired trope of a Westerner coming and saving beleaguered Easterners. In the film, Mark Ruffalo's character Bruce Banner (also known as the Incredible Hulk) finds refuge in Kolkata's slums, where he serves the local population by treating lepers.