The United Auto Workers’ strike against General Motors has stretched into its third week with no end in sight, as some workers who applied for a union-sponsored supplemental weekly payment of $250 received their first check Tuesday.
Read moreA diver and maritime history buff has found two schooners that collided and sank into the cold depths of northern Lake Michigan more than 140 years ago.
Read moreThe Detroit Board of Police Commissioners voted to approve the Detroit Police Department’s use of controversial facial recognition technology to help catch criminals.
Read moreThe United Auto Workers announced they will go on strike Sunday night against General Motors in a move that could halt all its vehicle production in the U.S.
Read moreA federal judge refused to dismiss claims that former state prosecutor Robert J. Healy fabricated evidence against Ledura Watkins, whose life sentence on a first-degree murder conviction was vacated in 2017 after he served 41 years.
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Democratic candidates for president converge in downtown Detroit this week for two nights of debate on CNN. Nine of them already appeared in the area last week at the NAACP’s national convention.
Read moreNine Democratic presidential hopefuls gathered Wednesday at the 110th NAACP National Convention in Detroit for an open forum that touched on economic inequality, criminal justice reform, voter suppression and white nationalism.
Read moreA conservative Detroit priest renowned for his orchestral Masses and traditional Latin services has been removed from public ministry after the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit reviewed what it described as a “credible allegation” that he abused a child decades ago.
Read moreCalling the content restriction reasonable because the ad held a group of people up to scorn, a federal judge dismissed with prejudice a complaint over the rejection an ad from an anti-Muslim website for Detroit’s Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation.
Read moreA federal judge dismissed Detroit from a civil rights lawsuit brought by a man who spent eight years in prison for four murders he didn’t commit, finding the city is immune from his claims of police misconduct because of its 2013 bankruptcy.
Read moreThousands of Detroit public schools students were told Tuesday to drink from district-supplied water coolers or bottled water on the first day of classes, after the drinking fountains were shut off because of contaminants in some water fixtures.
Read moreA Michigan man jailed for two years for attempted murder and later exonerated because of a Facebook-backed alibi prevailed Wednesday in a civil case against Detroit police officers who had asked a judge not to find them liable for falsely arresting him.
Read moreDetroit officials said Wednesday the city will shut off drinking water in all of its schools after testing revealed elevated lead and copper levels in more than half of the 24 buildings.
Read moreDetroit Mayor Mike Duggan and eight Detroit-area residents alleged in federal court Thursday that the unreasonably high premiums of Michigan’s mandatory no-fault insurance coverage violates due process and is therefore unconstitutional.
Read moreA Sixth Circuit panel ruled Thursday that Michigan law does not allow voters to void or amend a $56 million tax increment financing related to the relocation of the Detroit Pistons basketball franchise.
Read morePolice say two more suspects have been arrested in the deaths of two males whose bodies were found under a door floating in the Flint River in eastern Michigan.
Read moreA photographer and a police officer filed a federal lawsuit against Trey Songz, claiming the rapper assaulted them after becoming irate at a concert in Detroit.
Read moreDetroit reached a key step in fiscal redemption on Monday by reclaiming control of its own finances roughly three years after exiting the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
Read moreA pair of squatters whose three dogs were shot and killed by Detroit police during the execution of a search warrant argued Wednesday in the Sixth Circuit over a federal judge’s decision to dismiss their case against the city and several of its officers.
Read moreThe use of $56 million of voter-approved school tax funds for the relocation of the Detroit Pistons basketball team was challenged in the Sixth Circuit on Thursday.
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