Detroit News

Executive producer Denis Leary , the 'Burn' filmmaking team and firefighters visit the Tribeca Film Festival 2012 portrait studio at the Cadillac Tribeca Press Lounge in April 2012 in New York City.

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been ordered to pay nearly 4.6-million dollars in restitution to the city as part of his conviction in the city hall corruption case.

A 22-year-old man who was found guilty of the rape of a woman who who was with her husband in a car on New Year's Eve in Detroit will be sentenced Thursday.

Four children are among the injured. Two of them suffered severe burns. The two others are being treated for smoke inhalation.

Stumbling on a Craigslist ad and having good instincts led Detroit rock group Dead in 5 to land a soundtrack deal for the movie 'Pro-Wrestlers vs. Zombies.'

Caution tape is posted on East Canfield in Detroit outside St. Josaphat Catholic Church on Nov. 19, 2013, after wind damage appeared to have shifted the main steeple following the high winds that swept through Detroit.

One of Gov. Jennifer Granholm's final acts is being examined in an unusual place: the Michigan Supreme Court.

Detroit's enormous amount of blight has inspired "creatives" from around the world, from music videos to movies.

Bing's plans to talk Wednesday about challenges he's faced and accomplishments during his four years at City Hall.

Transformation is taking place on Detroit's Belle Isle. By Feb. 10 the 90-day transition to state management by the Department of Natural Resources under a 30-year lease will be complete.

Waters from a leaking pipe flows down steps at the Caroline Crosman School in Detroit Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013.

A pilot for a new Syfy show based on the '12 Monkeys' film has been approved for an incentive of $1,546,063 on $5,356,936 of projected in-state expenditures, the Michigan Film Office announced Tuesday.

Shiawassee County authorities say they have arrested three people who they suspect may be part of a car theft ring operating in southern Michigan.

Dearborn -- A Detroit man has turned himself in to authorities in connection with a shooting at a Benihana restaurant last month in which an Ann Arbor man was wounded, police said.

Two Obama administration officials will visit southeastern Michigan on Thursday to discuss the need for community college training programs and help start a campaign encouraging economic development in Detroit.

State Superintendent Mike Flanagan today announced that more schools will be placed into the state's reform district in 2014, possibly as early as January.

ANOTHER BUILDING OF THE HEIDELBERG PROJECT BURNS. Carmen: A MOTHER NEW TO THE AREA MURDERED INSIDE HER WARREN HOME.

Detroit -- A father has been arraigned in connection with the deaths of two of his young sons who were alone during a blaze at their home.

'Anytime somebody says it can't happen, I whip those pictures out and say, 'Oh, don't you bet against it,'' Orr said the other day, not long after a federal judge allowed Detroit to become the nation's largest city ever to enter bankruptcy.

When Nelson Mandela visited Detroit in the summer of 1990, soon after his release from 27 years of captivity in South Africa, federal appeals court Judge Damon J. Keith was asked to welcome him on behalf of the city.