steve – Motor City Muckraker

Final hours of 2013: Baby found eating rat poison & other police calls

Police responded to 21 assaults, a kidnapping, the discovery of a body, three breaking-and-enterings and 15 reports of gunshots.

Photographers exploring the abandoned Packard Plant in Detroit made a disturbing discovery on Christmas eve – a dead body.

When we launched Motor City Muckraker in the summer of 2012, we wanted to explore Detroit in ways that the local media hadn’t.

Mike Duggan’s first move was nominating an interim fire commissioner with a strong background.

The project, “Station Walls,” features some of the most eye-catching graffiti in Detroit.

An internal report raises serious questions about the new Detroit office and the people sent to work there.

“The defendant’s first thought was to bring a shotgun to the door, not call for help,” the judge said.

A reasonable person would have feared for his life and therefore been justified in pulling the trigger, attorney says.

The Brewsters are the nation’s first publicly funded housing project for black people.

Hoodies have served as symbols of racial profiling in the wake of the Trayvon Martin killing.