Detroit

2020 Campaign 03/11/20, 03:40

The Democratic Party's lead contender for presidency was caught on camera arguing about the sale and use of firearms with an automobile factory employee in Michigan. A video has emerged of Joe Biden appearing to be in a heated exchange about ...

U.S. 10/27/19, 17:11

Former U.S. Rep. John Conyers, one of the longest-serving members of Congress whose resolutely liberal stance on civil rights made him a political institution in Washington and back home in Detroit despite several scandals, has died. He was 90. Conyers, among ...

U.S. 10/02/19, 17:19

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) on Monday urged the Detroit Police Department’s Real Time Crime Center, during a tour of the facility, to employ only black individuals to work as facial recognition analysts. Tlaib told Detroit’s chief of police Chief James Craig, ...

U.S. 09/23/19, 14:59

A 49-year-old woman has been identified as a person of interest and taken into custody in connection with the fire early Monday morning, Sept. 16, at the Heidelberg Project in Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Police Department spokeswoman Latrice Crawford said, according ...

Business 09/15/19, 23:20

More than 49,000 members of the United Auto Workers walked off General Motors factory floors or set up picket lines early Monday as contract talks with the company deteriorated into a strike. Workers shut down 33 manufacturing plants in nine states ...

Politics 08/04/19, 19:20

Detroit, the motor city, played host to the second round of Democratic debates on July 30 and 31, and there was an important reason they chose Detroit. In the 2016 election, Hilary Clinton all but ignored the city, with disastrous ...

2020 Campaign 07/31/19, 21:39

The Latest on Wednesday's Democratic presidential debate (all times local): __ 10:15 p.m. Former Vice President Joe Biden is distancing himself from a trade deal that was a centerpiece of the Obama administration. Biden said on the debate stage in Detroit on Wednesday that ...

U.S. 07/27/19, 16:05

Twenty hopefuls for the 2020 Democratic nomination have been busy preparing for next week’s second round of televised debates in Detroit. The evening debates, on July 30 and 31, will be hosted and televised by CNN, beginning at 7:30 p.m. The ...

U.S. 07/02/19, 21:49

Lee Iacocca, the auto executive and master pitchman who put the Mustang in Ford's lineup in the 1960s and became a corporate folk hero when he resurrected Chrysler 20 years later, has died in Bel Air, California. He was 94. Two ...

U.S. 06/13/19, 13:27

Prosecutors stunningly dropped all criminal charges Thursday against eight people in the Flint water scandal and pledged to start the investigation from scratch.The defendants include Michigan's former health director, Nick Lyon, who was charged with involuntary manslaughter. He was accused ...

U.S. 06/10/19, 12:35

The Latest on a possible serial killer in Detroit (all times local):1:32 p.m.Detroit Police Chief James Craig says he believes a man being held in connection with the deaths of three women and charged in the sexual assault of another ...

U.S. 06/10/19, 11:16

Prosecutors have charged a Detroit man who police call a "person of interest" in the deaths of three women with sexually assaulting a separate woman.Wayne County prosecutors said Monday that 34-year-old Deangelo Martin was charged with criminal sexual conduct and ...

U.S. 06/07/19, 15:51

Police concerned that a possible serial killer is on the loose in Detroit began inspecting hundreds of vacant homes Friday for more victims, two days after the decomposed body of a third woman was discovered.Mayor Mike Duggan predicted it would ...

U.S. 06/05/19, 12:51

Investigators believe a "serial murderer and rapist" is at large in Detroit after the decomposed body of a third woman was found Wednesday in a vacant house, the police chief said.Chief James Craig said the homicides, which began in March, ...

Health 05/30/19, 11:55

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday signed a "historic" overhaul of Michigan's car insurance system that, beginning in 13 months, will let drivers choose their medical coverage instead of them being required to buy unlimited benefits.Her signature, delivered at the Detroit ...

Enviroment 05/29/19, 15:40

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel said Wednesday she will move in June to shut a Great Lakes oil pipeline if the governor cannot reach a resolution with operator Enbridge, saying the state is in "great peril" the longer the oil ...

Sports 05/27/19, 21:31

Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert remains hospitalized and is "resting comfortably" after suffering a stroke.The 57-year-old was taken to a Detroit-area hospital Sunday by a friend after not feeling well, and he had the stroke while getting medical care, Quicken Loans ...

Basketball 05/27/19, 20:47

The University of Wisconsin said Monday assistant men's basketball coach Howard Moore was up and walking at a hospital after a weekend automobile wreck in Michigan that killed his wife and daughter.The school also said Moore's son, Jerell, had been ...

Basketball 05/26/19, 17:33

The University of Wisconsin said Sunday the wife and daughter of men's basketball assistant coach Howard Moore were killed in a Michigan automobile accident.Moore's wife, Jennifer, and daughter Jaidyn were killed early Saturday in the crash on the M-14 highway ...

Hockey 05/24/19, 16:05

Martin Brodeur has been back with the New Jersey Devils for eight months and only walked by his statue once. It's harder to avoid his banner hanging from the arena rafters.Brodeur returning to the place he spent the majority of ...