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'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.

Battles are being waged on three fronts after a federal judge gave Detroit's bankruptcy case a shot in the arm last week with a multi-pronged ruling that found the city eligible for a Chapter 9 restructuring.

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes has ruled Detroit, Mich., may seek to protect itself from its creditors under Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy protection, thus making this once proud city the largest municipality in American history to go bust.

"This is Leslie," she says. "Say hello, Leslie." Fifty-three-year-old Crawford is not talking about her daughter or her godchild.

Steve Dolunt is in his office at the Detroit Police Department Central District at 7310 Woodward with a cherished keepsake that reminds him of fallen officers.

A file photo taken on June 14, 2005 shows former South African President Nelson Mandela giving in Johannesburg a press conference voicing his support for President Thabo Mbeki after he fired his corruption-tainted deputy, saying he stood by him during 'these testing times' for the leadership of the ruling party.

A former Detroit university professor is pledging $5 million, hoping it will spark a wildfire of private financial support to protect valuable art from being sold to pay creditors in the city's bankruptcy.

A Detroit man, accused in the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old, was convicted Friday.