Detroit News

The nation's largest municipal bankruptcy case shifts to Ohio on Wednesday where Detroit's legal team and a holdout creditor are fighting over the city's best revenue stream - $15 million a month in casino taxes.

The city of Detroit and the union that represents firefighters have reached a tentative agreement to overhaul the fire department's 128-year-old promotional system that mayors have tried to overturn for nearly half a century.

Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy accused Cheatham of sexually assaulting 5-year-old Mariha Smith, killing her and setting her body on fire inside an abandoned house on Waverly in 2011.

Detroit police say a sleeping 8-year-old boy was fatally shot overnight in what might be a case of domestic violence.

Chef Craig Lieckfelt, who has held a series of acclaimed pop-up dinners in Detroit, plans to open his own restaurant, Guns & Butter, this summer.

Detroit -- A sleeping 8-year-old boy was killed early Tuesday morning when bullets tore through his home on the city's near east side.

Detroit's inspector general on Tuesday launched an investigation into a pair of construction contracts worth a combined $30 million that the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department awarded earlier this year.

I'm not going to lie to you - this isn't easy. This week, the final City Slang local music column will be published in the Metro Times , and I have just submitted a cover feature on the women of Detroit hip-hop, to be published next week .

The four-door Mini Cooper Countryman was the only one of 12 cars to earn a top rating of 'good' in... Sara Ordaz is one of three kindergartner teachers at Brenda Scott Academy who teaches over 90 students in the one class together.

Investigators canvassed the area where 19-year-old Renisha McBride was fatally shot, knocking on 80-100 doors trying to gain additional information, but found just one witness.

Authorities expect to decide within the next few days whether the owners of two dogs that fatally mauled a 46-year-old jogger on a rural Michigan road will face criminal charges.

Kaylah Hunter, 6, and Kristian Justice, 9 months old, went missing on May 25. They were last seen at their home at 18491 Ardmore Street.

A mistrial has been declared in the case of a 22-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting, killing and then setting fire to a 5-year-old girl in Detroit.

Amid international attention to Detroit's policy of cracking down on water customers with overdue bills, the city's emergency manager this morning granted fuller authority to Mayor Mike Duggan to manage the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department.

Inspired by Howard Zinn's populist "People's History of the United States," Detroit filmmaker and artist Nicole Macdonald created a series of enormous paintings of Detroit heroes past and present -- telling the city's history, in her words, "from the ground up."

Jayru Campbell's lawyer Jeff Edison tells the Detroit Free Press his client turned himself in Monday.

There was once a time when Detroit was the center of not only the automotive world, but the aviation world, too.

Atwater Brewing founder Mark Reith has come a long way in a short time, but says fewer regulations would help craft brewers like himself.

A proposal has been delayed to transfer 301 Detroit-owned properties to the Michigan Land Bank in exchange for $1.4 million from the Canadian government as part of plans for a $2 billion international commuter bridge.

Wade McCree Jr. lost his job, but he won't lose his shirt. The disgraced judge -- who once texted a shirtless photo of himself to a female court bailiff -- had an affair with a woman while overseeing her child custody case, had sex with her in his chambers and sexted her from the bench.