A years-long, federalinvestigation that led to prison time for several top aides of former Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano came to a close Monday, Feb. 9, 2015. Five others went to prison for ...

Embattled Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano and one of his administrators concocted a plan to keep lucrative severance deals for top appointees hidden from the public, according to a whistleblowers ...

A controversial buyout program targeting certain Wayne County political appointees has been discontinued, according to stories being posted on The Detroit News and Free Press websites. The program, ...

DETROIT (WWJ) - Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano wants four more years. He officially announced his re-election bid Monday, and would be serving a fourth term if re-elected. Another well-known ...

Kym Worthy and Robert Ficano never had the most congenial relationship; Worthy, the Wayne County prosecutor, always thought Ficano, the county’s former chief executive, could’ve paid more attention to ...

If you can't make a little fun of a fellow politician, what's the sense of being in office for decades? Republican Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson, never one to mince his words, gave his ...

WAYNE COUNTY (WWJ) - The Wayne County Commission begins combing through County Executive Robert Ficano's $2 billion budget Tuesday. The county has submitted a two-year budget for the first time ever.

Carol Cain wasted no time in breaching the issue of what she later called the "900-pound elephant" on a stage with four elected officials representing metro Detroit's population centers. "Some of you ...