homicides

Detroit Police say crime in the city dropped last year, with the fewest homicides the city has seen since the 1960s. But that number doesn’t account for population.

African-Americans in Michigan are murdered at one of the highest rates in the nation. That's according to a study from the Violence Policy Center.The…

Though the national homicide rate has declined over the past decades, many Michigan cities are struggling to follow the trend.Dayne Walling, Mayor of…

DETROIT (AP) - Several of Michigan's largest cities already have eclipsed last year's homicide totals.Murders in Detroit, Saginaw and Grand Rapids are up…

The Flint Journal reports this morning about three killings over the weekend, bring the total number of homicides to 50:In 2010, the city set a record for…

Flint Emergency Manager Mike Brown says the city plans to work more with the state police, as well as local and federal prosecutors, to fight the city’s…

The number of people who died on the job in Michigan increased in 2010. Michigan State University researchers track workplace deaths. Researcher Ken…

The Center for Homicide Research published a report on homicides in Flint. It concluded that Flint passed its previous record of 61 homicides (set in…

Just a day after tying a record set in 1986, Flint recorded its 62nd homicide of the year. The body of a man was found slumped over in a car parked on a…

Update 11:30 a.m.:Just hours after city officials in Flint called a news conference about tying the homicide record, The Flint Journal is reporting that…