Detroit News

Recently invited to sit on a radio roundtable discussion, on the popular Mildred Gaddis Show , concerning recent headlines of politics, bankruptcy, the rash of home invasions, poverty and the like, I found myself a little out of position.

Just days before her son's second birthday, the aunt who was supposed to make his birthday cake fell ill.

Just two years after the U.S. Census marked Detroit's first-ever population decline, a young writer began her first teaching position at what was then called the University of Detroit.

Aerial view of the skyline of Downtown Detroit on the morning of Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012.

Neither a stolen rental car nor a record-breaking snowstorm could stop Michael Owen from spreading his LOVE painting across a four-story building in Detroit.

A Detroit-area doctor who would see more than 100 patients a day at his Hamtramck clinic has been convicted of 34 crimes.

Authorities say a 24-year-old Detroit man ran over another man twice in a car and left him for dead after a fight at a gas station in broad daylight.

A 35-year-old Detroit firefighter will stand trial in the slaying of a disc jockey during a shootout outside a west side bar.

Formal education for Nogaye Walker, left, ended in Senegal in the fourth grade. She now is tutored by Christine Simon in Detroit.

The exchange continued outside the home and a getaway driver was shot. He crashed the car into a nearby home and died.

A Delta Airlines jet takes off from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in this February 21, 2013 file photo.

Detroit -- Charles Jones, the father of Aiyana Stanley-Jones, a 7-year-old who was shot to death by Detroit police, is being sentenced Friday in the 2010 shooting death of a Detroit teen.

Detroit emergency manager spokesman Bill Nowling said he was grateful to walk away from a wreck Thursday morning about a mile from his home near Brighton.

Metro Detroiters are marking Good Friday, one of the most holy and solemn days in the Christian faith, by aiding the needy and joining church services commemorating Christ's crucifixion.

What began as a hate crime investigation two years ago has led to the murder conviction of an Iraqi immigrant, whose wife was found badly beaten with a threatening note labeling her a terrorist.

Detroit, the wait is over. Olympia Entertainment has announced the return of Jimmy Buffett and The Coral Reefer Band to Comerica Park for one night only on Saturday, July 26 at 7 p.m., as part of Jimmy Buffett's "This One's For You Tour 2014" with special guest John Fogerty.

Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano appears at the 2014 North American International Auto Show in Detroit on Jan. 16, 2014.

A 34-year-old Detroit man has been charged with aggravated assault in connection with a reported attack on the principal of his child's school.

Detroit indie duo Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. will be at the Majestic Theatre on Saturday.

The body of Candest Mills, 22, was found on Jan. 10, 2013 with multiple gunshot wounds in front of a home in the 1600 block of Collingwood in Detroit.