WARREN/CENTERLINE — Although many communities are embracing the preprocessing of absentee ballots for the general election, Warren City Clerk Sonja Buffa and Center Line Deputy City Manager and Clerk Janice Pockrandt have opted not to use it.

WARREN — Current District 12 Macomb County Commissioner Michelle Nard and former District 5 Warren City Councilman Eddie Kabacinski are running as write-in candidates for the seat Nard currently holds.

WARREN/DETROIT — Hundreds gathered at Second Ebenezer Church in Detroit Oct. 18 to celebrate the lives of Cedric Antwan Hayden Jr. and DeJuan Kyle Pettis, who were killed when a speeding Warren police SUV crashed into Pettis’ new Dodge Durango.

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CENTER LINE — Brendan Tyrell Wilson, 24, of Highland Park, appeared in the 37th District Court Oct. 15 where he was arraigned on nine charges in connection with an alleged home invasion that evolved into a shoot-out with public safety officers.

WARREN — The Hundred Club of Detroit recently awarded six Warren Police Department officers with the 2024 Valor Award for heroic action at their annual awards banquet at the Detroit Athletic Club.

WARREN — The Warren City Council has overruled Mayor Lori Stone’s veto of its resolution calling for the Warren Police Department to again begin hiring officers in-house.

WARREN — After nearly a year in office, Warren Mayor Lori Stone gave her first State of the City address to an audience of a few hundred people gathered in the Warren Community Center auditorium on the evening of Oct. 10.

WARREN — The family of Cedric Hayden Jr. filed a $100 million lawsuit on Oct. 4 against the city of Warren and the two police officers involved in the fatal car crash that killed Hayden and his best friend, DeJuan Pettis, last month.

WARREN — A Southfield man was arraigned in 37th District Court Sept. 25 for allegedly embezzling more than $7,000 from eight adults in the Mission Point Nursing & Rehabilitation Center of Warren.

WARREN — A man who allegedly set fire to his girlfriend’s home, killing her two cats and destroying the house, was arraigned in Warren’s 37th District Court by Judge Michael Chupa Sept. 24.

WARREN — The Warren Police Department was reaccredited by the Michigan Law Enforcement Accreditation Commission in September and continues to be the largest police department in the state to receive the designation from that organization.

WARREN — An investigation into an early morning crash involving a Warren police SUV and a Dodge Durango that left two men dead and two Warren officers hospitalized remained ongoing Oct. 4.

WARREN — Two people are dead and two Warren police officers are in serious condition after a traffic crash on Schoenherr Road at Prospect Avenue early Monday. Lieutenant John Gajewski of the Warren Police Department told reporters at the scene that at approximately 5:00 a.m. on Sept.