Prison & probation: Starkly different sentences for Utash attackers
“All I can say is the people who beat me tried to kill me,” Steve Utash wrote in a letter.
Popular WXYZ-TV meteorologist loses eye in fireworks accident
WXYZ-TV Chief Meteorologist Dave Rexroth is scheduled to undergo surgery Wednesday after he was seriously injured in a fireworks accident.
Up close: More than 100 fires break out over weekend, rivaling Devil’s Night
The fires posed a significant challenge to a city dangerously short on firefighters and equipment.
Hazardous fire in Detroit burns at least 80 minutes before residents warned
Heavy yellow and orange smoke spewed from a burning Family Dollar on Detroit’s east side late Saturday afternoon.
Wayward firework strikes Detroit man in chest, kills him on July 4
A Detroit man was killed Friday evening when a wayward firework struck him in the chest and exploded.
Detroit combats graffiti, dumping & scrapping with tip line, new enforcement
Deciding to convert resources to graffiti, scrapping and dumping isn’t easy for a police department already struggling to respond timely to violent crimes.
Sobering report: 20% of Detroiters could lose homes to tax foreclosure this year
As more properties fall into foreclosure, the cycle of abandonment, arson and blight will continue.
Man suspected of setting hundreds of fires in Detroit charged with arson
A Detroit man accused of lighting hundreds of fires because of a long-held grudge with firefighters was charged Wednesday with arson and resisting arrest.
Historic Detroit fire headquarters to be converted into upscale hotel
The mighty downtown headquarters was built at a time when Detroit had one of the largest populations in the U.S.
3 Grosse Pointe teens busted for spray painting downtown Detroit building
Three teens captured on surveillance spray painting a downtown Detroit building owned by billionaire Dan Gilbert have been identified and could turn themselves in as early as today.