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.
Welcome to Landlord Nation, where foreclosure notices are plentiful and for-sale signs offer at least 1,800 homes for under $10,000 that once were worth at least 10 times more.
A Columbia County man was taken into custody by the FBI when they learned he was trying to hire a hitman from across the country to kill his wife.
GENEVA – Sure, there are electric cars here at the auto show, but many are the same ones we saw earlier in Detroit (Chrysler 200C) and Paris (Heuliez Friendly).
It may be tough to get financing for a new car these days, but in Detroit you can buy a house with a credit card. The median price of a home sold in Detroit in December was $7,500, according to Realcomp, a listing service.
But, "Detroit's biggest problem isn't that it's producing the wrong type of vehicles but rather, that it's producing too many vehicles -- far too many," said CIBC World Markets Chief Economist Jeff Rubin.
Somehow, in just a year's time, billions of dollars in surplus soon converted to a staggering deficit. People are wondering why this was allowed to happen.
The Detroit City Council rejects the Cobo Hall expansion plan, and seemingly makes the issue about race, rather than about what is good for the City of Detroit, our workers, and our struggling auto industry.
These small businesses are closing in part due to the economy, but this trend began years ago when employer groups started forcing patients to fill their medications through out-of-state mail-order pharmacies.
And labor bosses are finally admitting that carmakers can't "sustain this level of losses and stay in business," as UAW President Ron Gettelfinger told Ford workers while urging them to ratify new concessions.
Pierce's daughter, Anita Pierce Huntington, took over, and now grandson Bill Huntington and his wife, Mary Jo, are retiring, wrapping up 109 years of retail history entwined with the wardrobes of generations of Grosse Pointe families and the history of Detroit.
A paczki is pronounced poonch-key. On Tuesday people across the country will celebrate "Paczki Day". It is a polish sweet good that is similar to a Bismark. Paczki is traditionally eaten on Fat Tuesday or Madi Gras.
For decades, Las Vegas, ripe with new construction and economic development, burgeoned into a shimmering urban carnival. Detroit, once the fulcrum of American industry, sagged and rusted under its own weight. These days, it's the worst of times for both.
Detroit's former first lady is seeking refuge for her family after suffering her darkest days: the public humiliation when Detroit and the nation learned that her husband, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, cheated on her and lied about it under oath.
GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Michigan – A man looking for relief has landed his friend in court. Prosecutors charged a 26-year-old man with breaking and entering after some urine samples went missing from a medical facility in Grand Blanc Township, about 45 miles northwest of Detroit.
Are sales down for G.M. and Chrysler, yes. Are they going to come back again and again and again? Sure why not. Free money they can do little to nothing and keep the fear factor high enough about lay offs bankruptcy and the likes and we jump.
There seems to be apparent strong support in DC for these "bailout" loans to the automakers and big banks, etc.
The Power of Nightmares is a controversial documentary that critiques the United States government and attempts to show how neo-conservatives shaped the war on terror against Islamists in the post-9/11 world. We watched it in my SRA 471 class with Dr. Horgan.
A Toledo man accused of kidnapping, handcuffing and holding captive in an adult diaper a 22-year-old woman he picked up off the streets in Detroit may have been trying to save her, authorities say.
The emergency loans last December to GM and Chrysler enabled the companies to stagger into the Obama era, but just barely. Their factories are closed, consumers on hold and balance sheets in a shambles.
Dream: Getting rid of high-living UAW workers will help Detroit compete. Reality: Unions have already made significant concessions. At this point, there may not be much more to squeeze out.
Dream: Trimming underperforming brands and their dealer networks will streamline operations. Reality: It might help GM, but it's not easy or quick ................................................