Detroit News

New York-based investment bank Miller Buckfire is expected to collect a fee of $28 million if the city of Detroit is able to restructure its debt in bankruptcy, according to an internal city document obtained by the Free Press.

Organizers of Netroots Nation, America's largest annual gathering of progressive activists, took the wraps off of a major and welcome surprise this afternoon with the announcement that Vice President Joe Biden would be coming to Detroit to speak to the convention during a special Thursday afternoon general session.

A woman is arrested during a protest at East Grand Boulevard entrance to Homrich Wrecking Inc. in Detroit over city water shutoffs on Thursday, July 10, 2014.

Twice a day, every day, Charlie Bothuell V told authorities, he had to complete workouts: 100 pushups, 200 sit-ups, 100 jumping jacks, 25 curls on each arm with a 25-pound weight and thousands of revolutions on an elliptical machine.

Twice a day, every day, Charlie Bothuell V told authorities, he had to complete workouts: 100 pushups, 200 sit-ups, 100 jumping jacks, 25 curls on each arm with a 25-pound weight and thousands of revolutions on an elliptical machine.

A Detroit high school teacher who said she was fired for breaking up a fight with a broom -- and then offered her job back -- is too traumatized to return to class, according to her attorney.

Two more men who pleaded guilty in a mob attack on a Detroit-area motorist are returning to court for their sentence.

Detroit women are dying from pregnancy-related causes at a rate three times greater than for the nation.

Demeeko Williams, Co-ordinator of the Detroit Water Brigade and volunteer Stephanie Howells sort through jugs of drinking water that will be distributed to those in need in Detroit, Michigan on July 9, 2014.

Boxing great Thomas 'Hitman' Hearns has joined an effort to fight blight in the Detroit neighborhood where he grew up.

Boxing great Thomas "Hitman" Hearns has joined an effort to fight blight in the Detroit neighborhood where he grew up.

A water shut off notice received by a city resident that was sent by the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department.

The starting bid is $1 million for the roughly 40% occupied Michigan Theatre at 220 Bagley Avenue.

A Detroit man who led a conspiracy with other individuals to distribute heroin in Huntington in 2013 and 2014 pleaded guilty to a federal drug charge, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin.

If you've always wanted your dating life paraded on network TV every week, you're in luck: ABC's hit reality shows, " The Bachelor " and " The Bachelorette ," are coming to metro Detroit looking for eligible singles ages 21 and older.

Chester Clemons, a water shut-off technician for Detroit, turns off water to a home in the Palmer Woods neighborhood on Tuesday.

The men charged with robbing and murdering two Westland teens have a hearing today to determine if they will stand trial for the deaths of Jacob Kudla, 18, and Jourdan Bobbish, 17. A passerby found the their decomposing bodies in a field on Detroit's east side near the Coleman A. Young International Airport in July 2012.

Exterior view of the new Detroit Public Safety Headquarters in Detroit on Friday June 28, 2013.

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan is telling the owners of homes that are being used for illegal drug activity to clean up their act - or the city will come after the properties.

People eligible for the Detroit Residential Water Assistance Program must live in single-family dwellings in the city, have received a shutoff notice and be at or below 200% of the federal poverty guidelines or participating in public-assistance programs.