Railroad crossing on Gratiot malfunctions, stranding people (video)
Some cars zipped through the crossing, while riders walked off DDOT buses or waited.
Crews amputate derelict Globe Building ahead of renovation
At first glance, the hulking Globe Building on Detroit’s east riverfront looks like any industrial eyesore – a collapsing roof, faded exterior and rusted steel beams.
More than 145 people shot in Detroit in May, some for most absurd reasons
On May 15, the day Mayor Bing introduced new Police Chief James Craig, 13 people were shot.
Musician Jack White keeps Detroit Masonic Temple alive with $142,000 donation
Local rocker Jack White donated $142,000 to the Detroit Masonic Temple to prevent it from going into foreclosure, the temple revealed today. In return, the world’s largest masonic temple renamed its Cathedral Theater to the “Jack White Theater,” where the local musician has played and where his mother used to be an usher. The Jack White […]
Humans not behind slaughter of chickens, goats at Detroit school for pregnant teens
Goats and chickens found slaughtered at a school for pregnant teenagers in Detroit last week were not killed by humans, the Michigan Human Society said this morning.
Traffic lights in downtown malfunctioned all night as Detroit boosters tried to impress ESPN
ESPN officials must decide whether Detroit’s financial crisis and crumbling infrastructure would make the city the best host of the Summer X Games in 2014, 2015 and 2016. Maybe it will help?
Photos: Thousands gather downtown in bid to host X Games
What Detroit lacks in luster, it makes up for in sweat.
Abandoned Packard Plant up for auction in September. New life for lawless wasteland?
Packard owner Dominic Cristini was shocked to hear the news when we contacted him this afternoon.
Kid Rock mural among dozens of recent targets of fire extinguisher graffiti – or ‘pissing’
In under a minute, someone armed with a paint-filled fire extinguisher can spray 20-foot-tall streaks of paint on buildings and never been seen.
Detroit’s population continues to nosedive, about to fall below 700,000 people
The flight of middle-class African Americans to the suburbs continues to fuel an exodus that left the city with just above 700,000 people last year, according to Census data released today.