From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In the wake of a fifth federal discrimination lawsuit being filed against Eastpointe Community Schools and Superintendent Christina Gibson last month, the ECS school board has issued a statement ...

Like everyone else, the entertainment attorneys honored on this year’s Legal Impact list — who’ll be gathering at the Variety ...

The Sterling Heights Police Department has become one of the first agencies in the area to implement a special needs registry, providing emergency crews with critical information.

Budget includes funds from city's new Pathway to Play and Preservation millage. Money marked for new police training facility ...

Arlington Heights Elementary District 25, a former school nurse and other district officials face a lawsuit filed Thursday by ...

Sterling Heights City Council has approved the adoption of the city’s first-ever Comprehensive Transportation Safety Action Plan, a unique initiative supporting the city’s ongoing effort to ...

A Black elementary school teacher is clapping back at disgustingly racist behavior that was allegedly displayed by the school district’s superintendent. The claims are worse than some petty ...

A Sterling Heights man convicted of sexually assaulting ... In January, a former Fraser High School contract employee who had sex with a 15-year-old girl in 2023 was sentenced to 8-50 years ...

Ella Teesdale recorded a single and drove in three runs while stealing two bases to lead Sterling to a 6-5 win over Haddon Heights in Somerdale. Haddon Heights (0-2) jumped out to a 4-0 lead by ...

Creator Quinta Brunson is decorated with plenty of Hollywood accolades for populating her “Abbott Elementary” with ... was met with criticism from Black women because she was not perfectly ...

A Sterling Heights man was ordered last week to serve 25 to 75 years in prison for sexually assaulting a girl under age 13 multiple times. Larry Devere Middleton, 33, received the sentence ...