Corey Williams, Author at Valley News

Deangelo Martin is displayed on a monitor during his video arraignment at 36th District Court, Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, in Detroit. Martin is charged with four counts of first-degree murder and four counts of felony murder in the killings of four women whose bodies were found in abandoned houses in the city as far back as February 2018. Martin, who was arrested in June, was already charged in the stabbing and sexual assault of 26-year-old woman in May and the kidnapping and assault of a 51-year-old woman in June. (Clarence Tabb, Jr./Detroit News via AP)

Man charged in Detroit killings

by Corey Williams Associated PressSeptember 18, 2019

DETROIT (AP) — A prosecutor announced murder charges Wednesday against a 34-year-old man in the slayings of four women in Detroit whose deaths authorities have characterized as the work of a serial killer.Deangelo Martin is charged with four counts of…

Mya Jones, left, 12, and her cousin Alexis Carlen, 13, keep cool on a tubes floating around the Endless River at Raging Rivers Waterpark in Grafton on Wednesday, July 17, 2019. An excessive heat warning has been issued for St. Louis through 8 p.m. on Saturday. Raging Rivers opened for the waterpark's 30th season on July 3 after floodwater from the Mississippi River delayed the park's typical opening on Memorial Day weekend. The waterpark is opens everyday at 10 a.m. and closes at 6 p.m. on weekdays and 7pm on weekends.
Photo by David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com

U.S. heat wave just warming up for long and scorching weekend

by Corey Williams Associated Press, and Seth Borenstein Associated PressJuly 17, 2019

In this Nov. 2, 2018, photo Darlene Hardison speaks during an interview in Detroit. Hardison would have loved to have a funeral for her father and uncle and bury them in marked graves at a Michigan cemetery. But she and her family could come up with only enough money to have them cremated, then left the remains to a Detroit funeral home to bury. Instead, authorities later discovered their cremated remains among nearly 300 others in bags, boxes and other containers inside Cantrell Funeral Home. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Paying for Funerals Impossible for Many

by Corey Williams Associated PressJanuary 20, 2019

Demolition equipment sits outside a vacant house on Detroit's east side, Wednesday, July 18, 2018. The city has torn down more than 14,000 structures over the past four years. Concern over contaminated dust from lead-based paint in older houses has resulted in the city pushing back some demolitions in parts of the city where elevated blood lead levels have been found in children. (AP Photo/Corey R. Williams)

Home Demolitions May Create New Problem: Lead-Tainted Dust

by Corey Williams Associated Press, and Mike Householder Associated PressJuly 19, 2018

An excavator moves to a rural wooded area in Macomb Township, Mich., Tuesday, May 8, 2018. Authorities excavating woods in southeastern Michigan, about 30 miles from downtown Detroit, for the remains of a 12-year-old girl last seen in 1979, also could be looking for the bodies of up to half a dozen others who have been reported missing over the years. The search started Monday, May 7, for the remains of Kimberly King, but Warren Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer said there could be others buried in the area. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Police Look for Victims of Suspected Serial Killer

by Corey Williams Associated PressMay 9, 2018

FILE- In a file photo from Nov. 14, 2014, Detroit Tigers owner Mike Ilitch listens during a news conference in Detroit. Ilitch, the owner of the Detroit Red Wings and Tigers, who founded the Little Caesars Pizza empire, has died. He was 87. Family spokesman Doug Kuiper says Ilitch died Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, at a hospital in Detroit. Ilitch and his wife opened their first Little Caesars restaurant in suburban Detroit in 1959, and the business eventually grew into the world's largest carry-out pizza chain. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Mike Ilitch, Tigers and Wings Owner, Dies

by Corey Williams Associated PressFebruary 11, 2017

Britt Waligorski, 31, and Mary Whitfield, 18, attend an Affordable Health Act rally on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2016, in Warren, Mich. Thousands of people showed up in freezing temperatures on Sunday in Michigan where Sen. Bernie Sanders called on Americans to resist Republican efforts to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, one of a number of rallies Democrats staged across the country to highlight opposition. (AP Photo/Corey Williams)

Thousands Rally to Resist GOP Repeal

by Corey Williams Associated PressJanuary 15, 2017

Detroit Federation of Teachers President Ivy Bailey addresses teachers outside the school district's headquarters, Tuesday, May 3, 2016 in Detroit. Nearly all of Detroit's public schools were closed for a second consecutive day Tuesday after hundreds of teachers called out sick over concerns that many may not get paid if the financially struggling district runs out of money. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Detroit Teachers to Return to School After Sick-Out

by Corey Williams Associated Press, and David Eggert Associated PressMay 3, 2016