Dave Spencer
I am a weekend anchor and weekday reporter at FOX 2 who is back working in my hometown.
It took 13 years of learning the ropes, but now I'm home doing what I love! As a reporter I arrived back in Detroit just in time to see a city in the middle of rebuilding itself.
After growing up in Troy and attending MSU (Go Green!) I got my start in TV in Lansing. I then ventured out to horse country, spending sometime in Lexington, Ky. I realized that I was pure Michigan when I took a job that got me closer to home, working in Grand Rapids.
Close was just not good enough for me so here I am back in the D.
If I'm not on air, chances are I'm sampling some of the best music Detroit has to offer having attended hundreds of live concerts over a lifetime.
I love that my job takes me in different directions everyday and allows me to give people a voice they may not otherwise have.
If it's important to you... It's news to me.
The latest from Dave Spencer
Three children found alone outside Warren apartment complex, mother arrested
Two children were found wandering outside a Warren apartment complex on Monday and witnesses say they appeared neglected and covered in filth. Now the children's mother is in custody.
2 young children found alone outside Warren apartment complex
According to witnesses, two children possibly 4 years old and a younger sibling were walking around outside Warren Manor Apartments.
Man convicted in Gov. Whitmer kidnapping plot has conviction overturned
A plot to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer during the pandemic has taken another twist. One of the people convicted in that plot has had his conviction overturned by the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Third Huron Valley Women's Prison inmate dies within a month: Former inmate sounds off
The calls for change continue after another death of an inmate from Michigan’s only women’s prison. Ashley Hoath died on Saturday, the third woman from Huron Valley Correctional Facility to die while incarcerated in less than a month.
SUV crash through Detroit apartment: 'Everything is gone'
Witnesses describe a silver SUV driving down Grove. When it got to a red light at Schaefer, the driver kept going and increased their speed.
Bullying episode on Eastpointe school bus sickens mother: 'I don't feel like he is safe there'
A Metro Detroit mother is sickened by a case of bullying against her son and the school district's response after not notifying her of the abuse. Kenidi Washington instead learned of the assault involving two other students on a bus bound for Eastpointe schools from another parent who found a video of the bullying on their child's phone.
Carjacking suspect randomly targeted mother, shot her before stealing car in Orion Township
A woman in her 40s was approached by a man who was waiting outside a restaurant in Oakland County and shot her, before taking her car keys and fleeing in her vehicle.
Contaminated dirt in Detroit at heart of $100M lawsuit
On one side, a demolition company. On the other side, the city of Detroit. And at the heart of a $100 million lawsuit the former has filed against the latter are piles of contaminated dirt.
Oakland County water main break causes business closures
Most people could understand restaurants that require water for cooking and cleaning needed to be closed – but it was harder to understand why retail stores, and a music shop would have to be closed.
Metro Detroit police chief says current state laws encourage drivers to flee from officers
Are current laws actually encouraging criminals to drive away from police rather than obey a traffic stop? One Metro Detroit police chief says yes, but he’s also pointing to steps being taken to change that.