Police assault, bind clerk candidate for 3.5 hours in Detroit
Scott Boman said he was isolated in handcuffs without water to keep him from attending a candidate forum.
Analysis: How Council President Pugh fell from grace
A man of two sides, Pugh can be charming, temperamental, progressive, juvenile.
Tensions flare as cops haul off teens before fireworks curfew
Authorities rounded up so many teens that they’ve run out of buses and are causing confusion about where the juveniles are being taken.
Public, media forced out of EM meeting
Although Orr and his advisers were warned that as many as 1,000 Detroiters may show up, they held the event in a cramped, 250-seat venue at Wayne State University.
Detroiter chooses death over arrest, pledging ‘Not going back to jail’
The suspect “indicated he wasn’t going back to jail” and chose the quick way out, police said.
Detroiters attack, shoot mentally ill homeless man asking for cigarette
The suspects, who casually walked away after the attack, are on the loose.
After Mayor Bing cuts police patrols amid spiking violence, he seeks to raise own security detail to 30 officers
On any given night, officers arrive to work with a backlog of cases that would be a priority in most cities. But police are overwhelmed with murders, rapes, aggravated assaults and armed robberies.
Decayed body of young woman found on east-side block decimated by abandonment, crime
Few streets are as decimated by abandonment as Louisiana, a short, crumbling road on Detroit east-side.
Former DMC CEO Arthur Porter charged with corruption, fraud against Canadian government
Quebec corruption officials confirmed to us that the government issued arrest warrants today against Porter, who headed DMC between 1999 and 2003 and now lives in the Bahamas.
FBI: Four Highland Park police charged in public corruption scandal
Four Highland Park cops are facing time in federal prison on charges of public corruption.