Police searched Monday for a female suspect after seven people were injured in a shooting at the Detroit riverfront.
Two airplanes came too close to one another while attempting to land at a Detroit airport, a federal official said early Saturday, days after another close incident involving three jets at a Washington, D.C. airport.
A bomb threat shut a major tunnel between Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit on Thursday, triggering traffic backups as drivers on both sides of the border were rerouted.
We conquered Greektown last weekend like so many Detroit bachelorette parties before -- cheap champagne, slot machines, grown-woman giggles. We stuck to the city's party-friendly district, home of a casino, restaurants that specialize in flaming cheese and Astoria Pastry Shop, where we spent a long, crave-denying half-hour forcing ourselves not to order one of everything.
A Michigan man was arraigned Saturday as part of an investigation into the deaths of women linked to a website that hosts ads for escort services.
CNN education contributor Steve Perry on Detroit students walking out of a school called one of the worst in the U.S.
The Detroit City Council passed a financial consent agreement Wednesday evening with a 5-4 vote, which grants the city the power to void contracts and slash costs but not provide state funding or loans to bail the city out of its financial problems.
A look at the best and worst commercials from Super Bowl XLVI.
Detroit automakers are back on their feet, showing their best profits in years. But the city of Detroit's finances are worse than ever.
Detroit's big auto show that opened on Monday is being called a big success. Exhibits at the show went through a model change and are all-new; more new cars and concepts are being unveiled for the first time; and statuesque female presenters, deemed to be in poor taste during the recession years, have returned in numbers to display stands to attract male buyers.
Every auto show, these days, is "all about plug-in cars and hybrids," they say. Everyone's gawking at the cherry on top while few notice how different the ice cream underneath is.
Detroit automakers got shut out of honors at their hometown's auto show Monday as the Hyundai Elantra and the Range Rover Evoque won North American car and truck of the year awards.
All three U.S. automakers are on track to be profitable in 2011 when they report results in the coming weeks. That's something that hasn't happened since 2004.
Authorities have identified three of the four women found dead this month in two incidents in Detroit, an investigator with the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office said Friday.
The deaths within a week of four women -- three of whom had advertised in an adult personals section of a website -- are being treated as the work of one person or group of people, Detroit's police chief said Tuesday.
Detroit police are investigating the death of two women whose bodies, burned beyond recognition, were found in the trunk of a car on fire early Christmas Day.
Police on Tuesday scoured the area in Detroit where Bianca Jones was last reported seen, searching for any signs of the missing 2-year-old girl.
Windsor, Ontario, known for its low homicide rate., reported its first homicide in 26 months.
In his 60 years, Arnold Blaine has known only two people who've owned a gun: one a hunter, the other a nightclub owner.
Facing a $45 million cash shortfall, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing announced Friday the city would eliminate 1,000 positions by the end of February.
It's a race against the clock in Detroit.
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing on his plan for pay cuts and tax hikes to save the city from the brink of bankruptcy.
When the 2011 model year came to a close at the end of September, the Detroit Three had much to congratulate itself for.
At the quarter pole of the 2011 season, the NFL has seen an interesting twist surface on the familiar length-of-game issue. If you've been paying attention through the first four weeks of the schedule, by now you know that games are never over, even when they seem over. You could say that the art of the comeback is making a comeback in the NFL, except for the fact we've never seen historic comebacks like this before. To wit:
The advance buzz around Drive, the movie about a Hollywood stunt driver played by Ryan Gosling, got me to thinking: We have lots of movies featuring cars, from Bullitt to The Fast and Furious, but where are the movies about car companies?
A few decades ago, in the very early stages of one of the most volatile presidential campaigns in American history, Mitt Romney's father was seen as the man to beat for the Republican nomination.
A young girl was fatally strangled before being burned "beyond recognition" in a Detroit building, a medical examiner's report released Monday found.
Metro economies struggling the most to recover from the Great Recession typically lost government jobs, a new Brookings Institution report found.
A group of religious leaders from Detroit is blaming JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America for contributing to blight in the city.
Federal agents arrested 10 current or former Delta employees Thursday for their alleged involvement in drug trafficking at airports in Detroit and Houston, authorities said.
A police bomb squad detonated a suspicious device Friday afternoon in an alleyway in southwest Detroit, according to police spokesman Phillip Cook.
The Detroit Public Schools district is sending layoff notices to all its 5,714 teachers, saying it must determine its staffing needs amid a drop in enrollment.
The retreat by the Detroit Three in the face of smaller, smarter, fitter cars by Toyota, Honda, and company is a 50-year phenomenon. In that time, Japanese automakers have bucked trade restrictions, an overvalued currency, and "Buy America" sentiments to capture more than one-third of the U.S. car market.
Today, I was reminded of how difficult it is to be a Ford in Detroit. You are always in the spotlight and one misstep can cause a lifetime of embarrassment and shame.
Depending on who you asked, Charlie Sheen either "brought his A-game" or "sucked" during the second stop of his My Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not an Option live-show tour in Chicago on Sunday.
A man was arrested for allegedly placing a suspected improvised explosive device outside a federal building in downtown Detroit, according to a district court complaint filed in Michigan.
A package containing "explosive components" was left unattended for weeks in a Detroit federal building, resulting in the suspension of a building security guard, according to an official with knowledge of the case.
Detroit could probably use another Eminem boost following Tuesday's news that it lost 25% of its residents from 2000 to 2010.
Census results show Detroit has lost a large amount of its population in the last decade. WDIV has more.
A joint terrorism task force is investigating the origins of a suspicious package that contained "explosive components" found inside a Federal building in Detroit.
The city of Detroit is closing a number of its schools in order to balance the budget. CNNMoney's Poppy Harlow reports.
In an effort to close a yawning budget deficit, Michigan has approved a proposal to drastically shrink Detroit's troubled school system over the next few years.
Mayor Dave Bing offers Detroit police homes inside the city limits for $1000 and renovation money. WDIV reports.
Detroit's mayor is proposing a new approach to increasing public safety: offering police officers and firefighters foreclosed homes for as little as $1,000.
Detroit police released a graphic surveillance video Friday that shows a gunman indiscriminately firing inside a police precinct and lunging across a counter to continue a shootout in which he was killed and four officers were wounded.
Detroit police have arrested a man suspected to be the rapist who "terrorized" women on the city's Northeast side, the police chief said Monday.
The man who shot officers inside a Detroit police station had a relative who is scheduled to be sentenced for double homicide Monday, said the city's police chief, who would not confirm that as the motive behind the attack.
A gunman walked into a Detroit police precinct and opened fire, injuring four police officers.
Detroit police confirmed Wednesday they have a person in custody in the city's serial rapist case.
While saying he believes just one man is responsible, Detroit Police Chief Ralph Godbee said Monday that authorities have detained nine men as part of their hunt for a serial rapist.
Kwame Kilpatrick, the imprisoned former mayor of Detroit, pleaded not guilty to new charges of racketeering, extortion, bribery and filing false tax returns Monday, court officials said.
What a difference a year or two makes.
In May, a judge sentenced former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to up to five years in prison for violating probation.
A federal grand jury has indicted the imprisoned former mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, on new charges including racketeering, extortion, bribery and filing false tax returns, authorities said.
A group of friends got lucky when they bought a winning Powerball ticket at a Detroit-area porn shop.
Richard and Pamela Mack are making a big bet on the future of Detroit: They've just purchased a huge house in a city that's been hollowed out by the Great Recession and the near death of the American auto industry.
Barbara Stachowski, who worked on land development projects for an engineering firm, was making photocopies at work one day in 2006 when her supervisor asked, "Hey, you got a second?" By the time they got to the conference room, Stachowski knew what was coming: With business having slowed down, she was being laid off.
Trained as an engineer, Mark Munteanu moved to the Detroit area from his native Romania in 1996, exactly as his brother, Gabriel, also an engineer, had done a year earlier. The U.S. was Mark's "dreamland."
Johnny Knoxville and VBS explore a side of Detroit that busts negative stereotypes of the city. Go to VBS.TV for more.
In August 2009, Vice published a story called "Something, something, something, Detroit: Lazy journalists love pictures of abandoned stuff," about the roving gangs of photojournalists prowling the empty city and feasting on its highly photogenic carcass. Since then, some of the worst offenders have abashedly changed their approach to covering Michigan's largest city. But most outlets are still fixated on the all-you-can-click pageview buffet that is "misery porn" of the decaying Motor City.
The chill of fall is in the air, pour some beer in your glass. Germany's Oktoberfest isn't the only outlet for beer lovers this season. Check out these five beer festivals across the United States.
The downtown business district of Detroit, Michigan contains precious few beacons of economic optimism these days amid the empty office buildings, vacant lots and unsold condos.
Eddie Franklin, 52, was reportedly in emergency surgery after being attacked by three assailants
CNN's Rick Sanchez talks to WXYZ reporter Tom Wait about the rash of fires that broke out in Detroit on Tuesday.
Hundreds of firefighters battled multiple fires in Detroit after high winds brought down power lines.
Six firefighters were hospitalized in Detroit, Michigan on Friday, a hospital spokesman said.
Fortune: Detroit's class actupdated: Thu Aug 05 2010 08:27:00
Can a cause seem so lost that not even many philanthropists feel charitable toward it? Detroit's schools have been that kind of hard case. In recent years public schools in such cities as New York, Chicago, and New Orleans have enjoyed major infusions of cash from charities like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. But that never happened in Detroit, whose school system is so far gone that barely 3% of its fourth-graders meet national math standards. "Between the destruction of the auto and manufacturing industries, massive blight, and political problems, the philanthropic view is that there's been no basement to build on in Detroit," says Rick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, the conservative think tank.
The news that General Motors is paying $3.5 billion for AmeriCredit, an auto finance company, is another signal that change is coming to Detroit -- and quickly.
This is a story of two Detroit factories, one a symbol of despair and the other of promise. On the one hand is the old Packard car plant on East Grand -- 3.5 million square feet on 38 desolate acres. Broken windows, crumbling bricks, creeping vines, and a FOR SALE sign that's been hanging there for years. "Most of the interest," realtor David Wax told us, "is to tear it down for the steel in the building."
At least one person is dead after a severe storm struck a campground in suburban Detroit.
One person died and four others were injured at a campground outside Detroit, Michigan, Sunday after severe weather moved through the area, according to the St. Clair County sheriff's department.
Several downtrodden cities are on the verge of defaulting on their debt, putting financially encumbered states and taxpayers on the hook to pick up the tab. The National League of Cities says municipal governments will probably come up $56 billion to $83 billion short between now and 2012. That's the tab for decades of binge spending; municipal defaults could be our collective hangover.
A 7-year-old girl was shot and killed by police during a raid in Detroit, Michigan. WDIV reports.
CNN's Stephanie Elam and Ryan Mack discuss the Detroit National Teach-In and how you can pursue your passion at work.
Mound Correctional Facility sits atop a flat stretch of land about 15 minutes from downtown Detroit.
It is not the kind of view you expect these days in downtrodden Michigan. From this rooftop plaza on the 17th floor of Bridgewater Place, evidence of urban renewal spreads in every direction. Directly to the south is the modern campus of Grand Valley State University, home to 11,000 students. Across the Grand River lies the sprawl of the redeveloped entertainment district, with its new arena and convention center, steps away from downtown business and government office buildings. Atop a hill to the east is the city's crown jewel: a $1 billion (and growing) medical complex that includes a cancer research center, specialized treatment facilities, and a medical school.
Like baseball, figuring out the auto industry has become easier with the use of statistics.
In a city filled with foreclosures and abandoned buildings, East Warren Avenue on Detroit's east side could be called the epicenter. Banks own 1,331 buildings in the surrounding 48224 zip code. More than 7 percent of homes in the area were in foreclosure last year -- the highest rate in the city.
General Motors' announcement Wednesday that it's investing $120 million in a Detroit auto plant is an encouraging sign for many in this hard hit city.
Federal authorities plan to unseal charges Monday against several people arrested in a series of weekend raids in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, prosecutors in Detroit said Sunday.
Detroit Public Schools financial manager Robert Bobb announces the closure of 44 schools.
The honeymoon is officially over.
Many air travelers know: Getting through the airport can make flying look easy.
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta says he's been flooded with questions about the health risks of airport scanners.
Crammed into a small Detroit office filled with pipe fittings, hydraulic tubing, and a device that looks like a gas pump combined with a supercomputer, Dave Shaw sums up how his life has changed.
The annual auto show that kicks off here Monday is very much like the auto industry itself: Greatly relieved to not be on death's door.
Two people were killed and four injured in a three-alarm fire Thursday night at the Huntington Hotel in downtown Detroit, Michigan, according the Detroit Fire Department.
New measures result in longer airport lines and flight delays. CNN's Allan Chernoff reports from Detroit.
Airline stocks opened lower Monday after a botched terror attack aboard a Northwest Airlines flight approaching Detroit on Christmas Day shook the industry.
Increased airline security -- fallout from the attempted destruction of a flight bound for Detroit. Jeanne Meserve
A security alert aboard a Northwest Airlines jet ended Sunday after investigators determined the incident -- the second in two days involving a Detroit, Michigan-bound flight -- was "nonserious," federal authorities said.
A Northwest Airlines jet is met by police in Detroit after its flight crew reported a 'verbally disruptive' passenger.
Golf has always had the ability to inspire players and fans alike, but now the sport's motivational qualities are being used to attract and help those on the fringes of the game.
Nancy McCauley Branstetter, a former communications executive at Ford Motor Co., is passionate about a cause that feels especially urgent lately: helping disadvantaged children and families who live in the economically stricken Detroit area.
Sports Illustrated will announce its choice for Sportsman of the Year on Nov. 30. Here's one of the nominations for that honor by an SI writer. Most coaches would have been studying yet another scouting report. Most players would have been listening to yet another rap song. But on the bus ride to Ford Field, Michigan State coach Tom Izzo put down his game plan for a moment to look out the window at a row of abandoned buildings. The Spartans basketball team turned off their iPods to follow his gaze. "Win one for Detroit," Izzo pleaded, and his charges nodded along. In the end the Spartans fell short of the 2009 national championship, but for everything else they accomplished during an unforgettable Final Four weekend in Detroit, they are my Sportsmen of the Year.
Six people. Buried. In Detroit.
While Detroit booster Dan Gilbert has a passion for the city, where he wants to move 1,700 jobs, it's a romance that's getting complicated.
It is noon in downtown Detroit, a glorious autumn day in the nexus of the city's business district. A large crowd of people stride up the street toward a sleek, glass-walled tower in the Campus Martius complex.
Detroit needs jobs. The city's unemployment rate hovers around 28%, the worst in the nation, and the city's budget deficit is near $300 million. Both Detroit's residents and its government need new employers to recharge the local economy.
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