He hasn't looked at the evidence and isn't commenting on the strength or weaknesses of anybody's case, but former House Speaker and attorney Tom Leonard knows one thing about this week's criminal charges against Lee and Stephanie Chatfield: defending against the charges is going to be expensive.

The number of hate crimes nationally tend to be higher during presidential cycles, with the vast majority of the hate crime being perpetrated by white supremacist and white nationalist groups, based on information shared at a Department of Civil Rights discussion Thursday.

The city of Detroit ended 2023 with 252 murders, the fewest recorded since 1966 and 18.4% fewer than the 309 recorded in 2022, according to numbers released by the city Wednesday.

The self-professed executive officer of the Genesee County Volunteer Militia was sentenced to more than four years in prison Friday for clobbering Capitol police with a baton he stole from one of them during chaos on Jan. 6, 2021.

One convicted conspirator in the failed Gov. Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot was sentenced to prison Thursday and a second was given probation as the last two of the eight accused conspirators were adjudicated.