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.
4 days of flames: Detroit firefighters overwhelmed by 80+ fires in houses, buildings
Detroit firefighters battled more than 80 fires – most suspicious – in houses, businesses, garages, apartment buildings, a school and a church.
Who would burn down historic church adjacent to Detroit’s new Red Wings arena?
Suspicion fell almost immediately on the church’s owner, Salim Kemenko, a property speculator who has wanted to demolish the building but was prohibited from doing so.
Investor who wanted Packard Plant scraps buildings, late on taxes
When one of our photographers approached the scrappers to inquire about the illegal operation, they tried to run him over with a truck.
9 ways scrappers are destroying Detroit area
Scavengers are wreaking havoc for a small treasure of scrap metal.
Store near Wayne State University campus sells crack pipes disguised as pens
For less than $3, I walked out of a store surrounded by Wayne State University campus with a glass crack pipe.
Investigation: What the Heidelberg Project doesn’t want you to know
“They are saying a lot to the public, but they haven’t been very cooperative,” a high-level fire official said.
Mysterious gas leak frightens residents of historic Detroit neighborhood
Neither the fire department nor DTE said they can find the source of what both acknowledge may be a major leak coming from a natural gas line or the underground sewage system.
Exclusive: Ex-Treasurer Dillon lands job with firm he helped get a lucrative contract in Detroit
Dillon was an integral part of getting Conway MacKenzie one of its most lucrative jobs ever, but he never divulged he and the CEO were longtime friends.
Biohazards, medical records languish in abandoned Detroit nursing home
A Grosse Pointe Park company closed the building and left behind bloody syringes, prescription pills, medical supplies and thousands of confidential medical records stacked from the floor to the ceiling.