A 29-year-old woman from Tennessee was arrested in Birmingham on Friday, March 20, after allegedly stealing over $700 worth of merchandise from a clothing store in the 100 block of S. Old Woodward.  Birmingham police reported that the woman also had a fake out-of-state driver’s license, a fake social security card, and a debit card belonging to someone else on her person. They later found out that she had extradition warrants from multiple other states.  Police reported that

An investigation is ongoing into the alleged theft of $166 worth of merchandise from a Birmingham grocery store located in the 600 block of E. Maple Road.  The store manager reported that he saw a man walking through the store the night of Thursday, March 19, hiding items. The man claimed that he had already paid for the items when the manager confronted him, but produced a receipt from a different store for different merchandise.  Reportedly, the man abandoned the cart, taki

A retail fraud suspect was arrested by Bloomfield Township police on Thursday, March 26, at TJ Maxx, 2139 S. Telegraph Road. Township police were called to the store around 5 p.m. after store loss prevention personnel had detained the suspect. The suspect, identified as JeremyBarber, a 34-year-old Black male from Detroit, had been stopped by loss prevention officers as he attempted to leave the store without paying for two JBL headphones totaling approximately $50. Barber had

The Community House Association in Birmingham filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in federal court this week after a purchase agreement with the United Jewish Foundation of Detroit was terminated and the association was facing a June due date for paying off several million dollars of debt. In early November of last year The Community House announced plans to evolve into the Birmingham Area Community Foundation to carry on the original mission of the iconic communit

After almost a year with little movement, discussions opened up again at the Bloomfield Township Board of Trustees meeting on Monday, March 23, on police department space needs and to revisit the past space needs assessment. 

Following a second round of draft revisions, a planned community survey was sent back for additional changes by the Birmingham City Commission during the Monday, March 23, meeting, and the survey working group and the city’s survey consultant will come back with a revised draft after implementing the commission’s changes.

A new pizzeria is set to take the spot of the former Café Succo location at 600 N. Old Woodward in downtown Birmingham after city commissioners approved the plans for the new restaurant during the Monday, March 23, meeting.

The Bloomfield Township budget for the fiscal year that ends on March 31, 2027 was approved by the board of trustees at their meeting on Monday, March 23.

The Oakland Schools Board of Education voted 3-1 on Tuesday, March 24, to approve a resolution to place a regional enhancement millage on the August 4 primary ballot which, if passed, would mean a special 1.5 mills would be added to tax bills for six years. Under Michigan statute, an intermediate school district may levy a regional enhancement property tax at a rate of up to three mills. This millage allows public school districts within a county to generate additional fundin

Bloomfield Township police on February 17 were able to track down an indecent exposure suspect on February 17 who was reported by a teenage girl. Police were dispatched at 11:45 a.m. to the Bloomfield Plaza at the southwest corner of Maple Road and Telegraph Road for a male subject in a blue Ford F150 who exposed himself to the 14-year-old female. The male subject left the area heading southbound on Telegraph Road prior to the officers’ arrival. According to the 14-year-old