Authorities have identified a man who died after being Tasered by police as 61-year-old Jesus Gillard of Detroit.  Full story »

Doug Mertz of suburban Detroit is charged with offering to sell R-22 refrigerant on the popular Web site. The Environmental Protection Agency says it's illegal to sell the refrigerant to people who aren't certified to handle it. Full story »

Police say a Pontiac man repeatedly assaulted a 19-year-old woman with a mental disability. Full story »

Brothers Carl and Sander Levin -- one a Senator, the other a Representative from Royal Oak -- appear willing to compromise on the public option opt out provision. But it seems not all Democrats are ready to play nice. Full story »

The Pontiac Silverdome -- built by the city in 1975 for $55.7 million and sold this week at auction for $583,000 -- could have been a dump. A high-tech dump. Bloomfield Hills-based Greendome Development LLC bid $22 million for the Silverdome with plans to use the property for recycling, alternative energy and bioconversion disposal. Full story »

Police say a man they believe was on drugs led them on a high-speed chase and died Thursday night after officers used a Taser to subdue him. Full story »

A pair of 17-year-olds accused of taking a man from a fast food restaurant parking lot and killing him hours later will go to trial on murder charges in suburban Detroit. Full story »

Troy Mayor Louise E. Schilling has won a personal protection order against a vocal critic she alleges is "unstable," swore during a council meeting and made threats to city staffers. Full story »

The Pontiac Silverdome may have sold for a very small number, but view counts on videos designed to promote the sale were dramatically smaller. Full story »

A 21-year-old man testified in the first-degree murder trial of a 16-year-old that they and another man botched several earlier robbery attempts before an employee of a Lathrup Village restaurant was fatally shot. Full story »

Pontiac Emergency Financial Manager Fred Leeb last night braved the rough waters of public opinion to discuss the fate of the Silverdome, which sold at auction Monday to an anonymous Canadian group for $583,000. Full story »

Two months after an extended strike delayed the start of the semester, Oakland University professors are calling for a vote of no confidence in President Gary Russi. Full story »

A sentencing hearing for a Michigan teen who police say shot and killed a 14-year-old from Alabama outside a church has been pushed back to next week. Eighteen-year-old James Cecil Willis III of Pontiac was scheduled to appear Wednesday before Oakland County Circuit Judge Wendy Potts. But the hearing was reset for Nov. 25. Willis pleaded no contest last month... Full story »

Police say Willis was a member of the Goon Squad gang and fired a gun into a crowd outside a Pontiac church in 2008. Dawan Allan-France Roberson of Akron, Ala., was killed. Full story »

Bloomfield Hills attorney H. Wallace Parker tried to buy the Pontiac Silverdome two years ago for $20 million dollars, and now he's trying to block an anonymous Canadian group from buying it for $583,000. Full story »