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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.

Kilpatrick has waived his attendance at a court hearing Tuesday that will determine his restitution, two months after he was sentenced to 28 years in prison for corruption at city hall.

In my opinion, the federal government's role in our lives should be drastically reduced, as well as the amount of taxes paid to the federal government.

U.S. Judge Steven Rhodes plans to hear arguments at a hearing Dec. 16 on whether he should allow appeals to his Detroit bankruptcy eligibility ruling to go straight to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Don Graves, a deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Treasury will speak at Link Detroit: A Small Business Matching Summit happening Tuesday.

A veteran Great Lakes shipwreck hunter said he and his crew have found the wreck of a wooden steamer that sank in 1861 in Lake Huron.

A 37-year-old Detroit man is under arrest for child endangerment after leaving his two sons, 1 and 4, alone in a home on Prairie in Detroit Friday, WDIV Channel 4 News reports.

A fire at a world famous art installation in Detroit, Mich., has destroyed the fifth house in the project in the last eight months, fire officials say.

Gary Pogue, of Motor City Trikes is building a trike kit, which transforms traditional motorcycles into three-wheelers, with the help of Roush Industries, that's due out next year.

Brigid Beaubien and her husband were so impressed with Detroit's new upbeat vibe they moved from Dearborn to a Midtown condo.

A structure called the 'Clock House' burned tonight at the Heidelberg Project in Detroit, the latest blaze in a series of fires in recent weeks at the world-renowned art installation.

Named "The D Tree," the mural was completed as part of an effort to improve a part of Detroit with arists from all over the world.