Vacant ice-cream store with iconic cow head up for sale in Detroit – for a lot
This Detroit landmark was quite the attraction a half-century ago. In Eminem’s 8 Mile, he blasted the cow with a pink paintball.
Photos: Protesters block freeways, roads, barge into WSU buildings in Detroit
Dozens of demonstrators resorted to civil disobedience to show support for the unarmed black teen killed by police in Ferguson.
2-hour drive reveals 53 intersections without working stoplights
“Someone’s gonna die; it’s only a matter of time,” Eric Williams, 57, said near an intersection without working stoplights.
Deadly firebombing caps wild 3-day Angels’ Night
Perhaps most eye-opening wasn’t the number of fires but the fallouts from budget cuts.
Hantz Farms: Is nation’s largest urban farm experiment a land grab or solution to city renewal?
It’s the first real test of Mayor Dave Bing’s plan to repopulate stable neighborhoods and transform vacant areas into lakes, farms, forests and greenways.