An attorney for the former top aide and lover of ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has filed a motion disputing the date of her release from jail.
Cobo convention center, one of the many aging buildings downtown, is threatening to become the latest tinderbox in resurgent racial hostilities between the mostly black city and its predominantly white suburbs.
More text messages between ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff, Christine Beatty, have been released by a judge.
Cedric Jackson tallied 16 points including 7-of-8 shooting from the foul line as Cleveland State recorded a 56-43 home win against Detroit on Tuesday night.
Ex-NBA star Dave Bing scored big on his initial foray into politics, beating a field of 15 candidates in the first leg of an election to complete the term of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, who was brought down by a text-messaging sex scandal.
Barack Obama has been marketing gold for companies selling stamps, commemorative coins, T-shirts, pajamas and nearly everything else bearing his likeness.
Jeremiah Crutcher scored all 16 of his points in the second half and Tennessee State defeated Detroit 78-75 on Saturday night.
The head of a computer software company defended the hiring of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick as an account executive Friday, saying the convicted felon is "uniquely qualified" to sell high-tech services in the health care field.
Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has a new job, but it appears he's going to miss the first day of training.
Gordon Hayward scored 22 points and No. 11 Butler shook off its first Horizon League loss of the season by beating Detroit 66-61 on Thursday night.
Kwame Kilpatrick regained his freedom early Tuesday morning, emerging from jail after a 99-day sentence and stepping back onto the streets of the city he once ruled as mayor.
Thomas Kennedy and Woody Payne each scored four points in the final 55 seconds of overtime to give Detroit a 68-64 victory over Youngstown State and the team's first conference win of the season on Saturday night.
Police in Detroit say gunshots fired during a fight outside a party have killed one teen and wounded six other people.
The city's former mayor is serving a four-month jail sentence. Its deficit could top $200 million. Hundreds of layoffs are planned. And Detroit's municipal bonds are now at junk status.
For a show that’s normally all about ritzy parties and celebrity appearances, there’s an unusual sense of practicality at this year’s Detroit auto show, and it extends right down to the showroom floor — literally.
Matt Howard scored 11 of his 15 points in the second half, including two free throws with 0.8 seconds left, to help No. 21 Butler stave off Detroit's upset bid with a 54-50 victory Saturday.
The Detroit auto show is rarely a frugal affair. Costumed dancers, spectacular pyrotechnics and the hottest celebrities all have been used in years past by automakers hoping to make a splash launching their newest vehicles. The no-expense-spared spectacles on the many stages of the city's cavernous Cobo Center often have had the grandeur of full-scale Broadway productions.
The former top aide and ex-lover of disgraced ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick followed her old boss to jail Tuesday, the last step in a criminal case that shook up Detroit politics for a year after romantic text messages between the pair made headlines.
The new spiritual leader of the Detroit area's 1.4 million Roman Catholics is a Michigan native who is invoking a city slogan about hope as he takes charge of a region tangled in economic woes.
The mayor of Detroit has ordered all departments to reduce their budgets by 10 percent as the city deficit approaches $300 million.
The Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix has been canceled because of economic problems in Michigan and the country, the latest setback in the sport rocked by sponsorship woes and a series of cutbacks and layoffs.
Authorities will review more than five years of files to search for cases where gun evidence may have been misjudged by the Detroit police lab, a prosecutor said Friday.
Mayor Ken Cockrel Jr. was cleared Thursday of criminal wrongdoing in a state investigation of his petitions to run for office.
Fighting to stay in business, Detroit's two daily newspapers will radically change their relationship with readers by slashing home delivery to three days a week, printing small editions on other days and encouraging people to get information online.
- With Congress on the brink of lending $15 billion in taxpayer money to Ford, Chrysler and General Motors, some legislators are worried that those funds will end up overseas.