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Share February 10, 2021, 6:38 AM Oakland County officials have filed felony charges against two individuals in the breakup of a human trafficking operation in Madison Heights. Oakland Prosecutor Karen McDonald (Courtesy photo) The arrests came after a months-long investigation by Madison Heights police at several motels, working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and assisted by Detroit police, officials said. They also come just days after the end of January, which was dubbed Human Trafficking Awareness Month by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other public officials ...

Oakland County officials on Tuesday announced seven felony charges against one Macomb County resident and one Wayne County resident accused of operating a human trafficking ring in Oakland County.  The arrests came after a months-long investigation by Madison Heights police at several motels, working with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and assisted by Detroit police, officials said. They also come just days after the end of January, which was dubbed Human Trafficking Awareness Month by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and other public officials nationwide. The charges include human trafficki...

Madison Heights — A representative for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday it had completed its emergency response to groundwater contamination at the former Electro-Plating Services, having spent $3.1 million, and will pass oversight on to state officials. "Our goal was to stabilize the site ... and return the site to EGLE for long-term remediation," said Tricia Edwards of the EPA during an online update, referring to the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy. She discussed over a year's work at a "very complicated site."  Edwards said weekly...

Meet Robbie Wright, who’s cleaning up an Amherst County business corridor one day at a time. On Wednesday morning, his route started at the McDonald’s off U.S. 29 Business in Amherst County, embedded in the congestion of big-box stores, fast food drive-thrus and auto shops. The heavily trafficked business corridor of Madison Heights is a crisscross of telephone wire and fast traffic, with billboards and boxy signs fragmenting the skyline, a sprawl of concrete and asphalt landscape. And then there’s the trash. Like most major highways, it’s plagued by debris — the kind...