Author Archives: Ed White

DETROIT (AP) — A judge dismissed charges Tuesday and closed a murder case against a young Detroit man who went to prison as a teen for four slayings that were eventually linked to a hit man. Davontae Sanford stands with his mother, Taminko Sanford and addresses the media during a news conference, Thursday, June 9, […]

In this May 18, 2010 file photo, Dominika Stanley and Charles Jones hold a photo of their 7-year-old daughter Aiyana Jones in an attorney’s office in Southfield, Mich. Aiyana was killed while she slept on a couch by a Detroit police officer accused of handling his gun recklessly during a frantic search for a murder […]

Theodore Wafer is led out of the courtroom by Wayne County Sheriff, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014, 2014, in Detroit, after he was sentenced to 17 years in prison for killing an unarmed woman on his porch. (AP Photo/Detroit News, Clarence Tabb Jr.) DETROIT (AP) — A judge has sentenced a suburban Detroit man to 17 […]

A few of the items belonging to civil rights icon Rosa Parks that were sold at auction to Warren Buffet. Shown are a pair of eyeglasses and and a typing textbook, a copy of the New Testament, left, and an address book, a rosary, and the Rosa Parks’ Presidential Medal of Freedom, left, and her […]

Theodore Wafer stares straight ahead after being convicted of second-degree murder and manslaughter as his attorney Cheryl Carpenter comforts him. DETROIT (AP) — A jury convicted a suburban Detroit homeowner of second-degree murder and mansl aughter Thursday in the killing of an unarmed woman on his porch last year, rejecting his claim that he was […]

James Davis stands with attorney Jason Malkowicz in court. DETROIT (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty in a mob attack on a Detroit-area motorist has been sentenced to a year in jail. James Davis received his sentence Thursday in Wayne County court. Latrez Cummings also is expected to learn his punishment. Davis and Cummings […]

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) — Loud cheers and sobs broke the calm of the courtroom Friday as a Detroit-area man was convicted of killing four women in his basement and stuffing their bodies in car trunks after he met them through online escort ads. Police said James Brown killed the women in pairs, just days […]

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. (AP) — A Detroit-area man who met four women through an online escort site killed them in his basement and then stuffed their bodies like “garbage” into car trunks, a prosecutor told jurors Thursday as she urged them to return a guilty verdict at the end of a three-week trial. James Brown, […]

DEARBORN HEIGHTS, Mich.— A Detroit-area man who fatally shot a drunk, unarmed woman on his porch will stand trial for second-degree murder, a judge said Dec. 19, rejecting a self-defense argument for the killer’s “bad choice.” There is no dispute that Theodore Wafer shot Renisha McBride, 19, through the screen of his front door in […]

DETROIT (AP) — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced Thursday to 28 years in prison for corruption, the apparent last step after a series of scandals destroyed his political career and help steer a crisis-laden city even deeper into trouble. Kilpatrick, who served as mayor from 2002 until fall 2008, fattened his bank account […]