Multimedia Journalist

Mike McConnell

Mike McConnell is a multimedia journalist for the Daily Tribune in Royal Oak.

Ferndale officials are seeing financial savings in the city’s first budget efficiency report, which was recommended by a resident-led Finance Review Committee.

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Ferndale targets budget savings before millage proposal goes before voters

June 30, 2024 at 7:52 a.m.

Ferndale officials are seeing financial savings in the city’s first budget efficiency report, which was recommended by a resident-led Finance Review Committee.

Local Royal Oak volunteers along with the nonprofit Cleanup Club and CN Railways collected hundreds of pounds of litter and debris in the downtown area over the weekend.

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Volunteer cleanup in downtown Royal Oak yields over 600 pounds of debris

June 29, 2024 at 8:49 a.m.

Local Royal Oak volunteers along with the nonprofit Cleanup Club and CN Railways collected hundreds of pounds of litter and debris in the downtown area over the weekend.

A Detroit man is charged with aggravated indecent exposure after several witnesses say he exposed himself near a Royal Oak apartment pool before lying down in a nearby grassy area and masturbating.

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Royal Oak crime: Detroit man charged with aggravated indecent exposure gets $50K bond; Intoxicated driver charged in hit-and-run

June 29, 2024 at 6:33 a.m.

A Detroit man is charged with aggravated indecent exposure after several witnesses say he exposed himself near a Royal Oak apartment pool before lying down in a nearby grassy area...

The troubled relationship between Royal Oak and the private company it hired three years ago to operate the city’s parking meter system has landed in court and may end there.

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Royal Oak files lawsuit against its parking meter contractor

June 28, 2024 at 6:09 p.m.

The troubled relationship between Royal Oak and the private company it hired three years ago to operate the city’s parking meter system has landed in court and may end there.

Organizers of the Soaring Eagle Arts, Beats and Eats festival in Royal Oak highlighted some of the features of this year’s four-day festival over Labor Day weekend, including the return of the House of Dank cannabis sales and consumption area.

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180 bands, cannabis sales, consumption set for Arts, Beats and Eats

June 17, 2024 at 9:36 a.m.

Organizers of the Soaring Eagle Arts, Beats and Eats festival in Royal Oak highlighted some of the features of this year’s four-day festival over Labor Day weekend, including the return...

A Detroit man is charged with human trafficking, sexual assault, torture, and prostituting at least two women in Madison Heights.

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Man charged in human trafficking, prostitution case in Madison Heights

June 17, 2024 at 9:45 a.m.

A Detroit man is charged with human trafficking, sexual assault, torture, and prostituting at least two women in Madison Heights.

Royal Oak will celebrate its fourth annual Juneteenth Celebration on Wednesday with activities, speakers, educators and a Freedom Strive walk as part of the event marking the end of slavery in the U.S. in 1865.

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Juneteenth event in Royal Oak includes mobile Black history museum, freedom walk

June 17, 2024 at 9:46 a.m.

Royal Oak will celebrate its fourth annual Juneteenth Celebration on Wednesday with activities, speakers, educators and a Freedom Strive walk as part of the event marking the end of slavery...

A Clawson man, 18, is due to appear in Troy 52-4 District Court later this month for a hearing on a charge that he stabbed another Clawson man, 21, as he sat on his porch. He is free on $125,000 bond, which requires him to remain at the house where he lives and wear a GPS tether.

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Clawson teen charged in stabbing free on $125K bond

June 17, 2024 at 9:46 a.m.

A Clawson man, 18, is due to appear in Troy 52-4 District Court later this month for a hearing on a charge that he stabbed another Clawson man, 21, as...

A Royal Oak man during his misdemeanor arraignment for a second-time domestic violence charge destroyed the police department iPad he used to appear remotely before a judge and is now charged with a felony.

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Royal Oak police: Royal Oak man faces felony for destroying police iPad during court hearing; 3rd-time drunk driver arrested with illegal Rx drugs

June 17, 2024 at 9:46 a.m.

A Royal Oak man during his misdemeanor arraignment for a second-time domestic violence charge destroyed the police department iPad he used to appear remotely before a judge and is now...

Royal Oak city commissioners this week officially amended the city’s composting ordinance as part of an effort to increase composting and reduce food waste in landfills.

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Royal Oak moves to make composting easier for residents

June 15, 2024 at 11:36 a.m.

Royal Oak city commissioners this week officially amended the city’s composting ordinance as part of an effort to increase composting and reduce food waste in landfills.

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