criminal justice

The East Lansing Police Department is investigating a bomb threat made to the Congregation Shaarey Zedek synagogue.

Ingham County Prosecutor John Dewane has increased enforcement of felony firearm violations, with charges up more than four times compared to this time last year.

A pair of House and Senate committees held their first joint hearing Tuesday at the state Capitol on a sweeping package of bills to overhaul Michigan’s juvenile justice system.

Two Nigerian men have been extradited to the U.S. after they were indicted for allegedly sexually extorting teenage boys and young men in Michigan and across the country, a prosecutor said Sunday.

A law that takes effect Saturday expands services and financial assistance available to help crime victims under Michigan’s Crime Victim Compensation program.

A judge in Michigan must decide whether a teenager who killed four students at Oxford High School should spend his life in prison.

Attorney General Dana Nessel has announced the man accused of kidnapping and murdering Lansing toddler Wynter Cole-Smith will face 20 total state charges.

A judge Tuesday denied a request by 17-year-old school shooter Ethan Crumbley to dismiss a prosecutors' motion to seek a sentence of life without parole for killing four fellow students.

Mourners gathered at the state capitol Saturday evening to grieve the death of two-year-old Wynter-Cole Smith.

Lansing Police say they have recovered the body of toddler, Wynter Cole-Smith, who went missing earlier this week.