State's Foster Care System


  1. State taking your kids, too much power?

    State taking your kids, too much power?

    All parents make mistakes. But in Michigan, one mistake could cost you your child…and critics say it’s happening all too often because we have one of the worst laws in the country when it comes to how and when the state can take your children.

  2. Stranded in the foster care system

    Stranded in the foster care system

    We do stories on kids abused in the foster care system. Action News has uncovered cases of foster kids who are loved and cared for by family members, but are still taken away. It’s a heart-wrenching saga of children stranded in the system.

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  1. Judge rejects Mother's Day murder appeal

    Judge rejects Mother's Day murder appeal

    There has been another setback for a man serving life in prison for a Mother’s Day murder he says he did not commit. A judge has denied Justly Johnson’s fourth appeal, despite a new witness uncovered by the 7 Action News investigators.

  2. Commission votes to censure Ficano

    Commission votes to censure Ficano

    Wayne County Commissioners have voted to censure Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano. 

  3. Dreams of home ownership dashed

    Dreams of home ownership dashed

    Imagine handing over your life’s savings to pay cash for a home – only to find out you don't own the home--and the tens of thousands of dollars you spent disappeared. Charles Brian Lovejoy’s clients say he has a track record of taking lots of their cash and vanishing.

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