Gov. Snyder declares financial emergency in Hamtramck
A five-member review team reported that the city has run four consecutive budget deficits and began ignoring its long-term obligations, such as pension payments.
Fans reclaim Tiger Stadium, open imaginations with 1860s baseball, peanuts & Faygo
Despite city efforts to keep people off the field, persistent fans have revived the ballpark. Now families visit the park; people bring their dogs; and other come to play baseball.
Nation of Islam Leader Saturday: Kwame Kilpatrick victim of FBI plot to remove blacks
Farrakhan reiterated his belief that Jews operate the entertainment industry and churn out negative portrayals of black people in an evil plot to control the world.
Can Detroit protect DIA artwork from sale to satisfy creditors? Maybe not, but state steps in
A leading Republican in the Michigan legislature introduced a bill Wednesday aimed at protecting the Detroit Institute of the Arts’ world-class collection from a sale to shrink the cit’s enormous $15 billion in long-term debt.
Tense scene unfolds outside charred liquor store as ATF investigates, scrappers lurk
Some residents also hurled insults at the owners of Ideal Market at Chene and Ferry, accusing them of burning down the store for insurance money.
Owner: Liquor store closed for “break” when it erupted on fire, injuring 2 firefighters in Detroit
“We don’t know what happened,” the owner said in broken English. “We were on our way back and saw the fire in the front. It could have been anything.”
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.
Former DMC CEO Arthur Porter arrested in Panama on charges tied to $22.5M in kickbacks
Porter’s meteoric rise from the war-torn country of Sierra Leone to the center of Canada’s business and political establishment is nothing short of spectacular and tragic.