Inside a fenced construction site on Detroit's east side, heavy machines are digging, shoving and hauling away tons of dirt in preparations for the latest addition to the city's industrial landscape. Auto parts supplier Flex-N-Gate is expected to bring 750 jobs to Detroit when it ...
Deborah Chenault Green is 62, a writer. But 50 years ago she was a preteen, sleeping on the porch to escape the oppressive heat, awakening to see a sky that glowed unnaturally. Azerine Jones is a retired baker. But in 1967 she was the 12-year-old ...
When his car needed weeks of transmission work and his dealer was out of loaners, Myles Arnett was sent to a nearby Hertz rental car lot. He had his pick of Nissan Altima and Sentra sedans to choose from — and little else. "Over the ...
Chris Cornell, the emblematic grunge rock singer whose sweeping voice masked lifelong struggles with drugs and depression, hanged himself late Wednesday moments after finishing a concert. He was 52. The singer, whose life had appeared to take an upward turn over the past decade as ...
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Monday sought to regain momentum with an economic speech in which he floated new tax breaks and cuts to regulation, as protesters repeatedly interrupted him. Trump said his plan would include imposing a temporary moratorium on new federal regulations, ...
A prosecutor who urged a judge to throw out a young man's guilty pleas to four killings after he spent eight years in prison defended how the case was handled on Thursday, saying her office swiftly sought his release when state police cast doubt ...
Nearly all of Detroit's public schools were closed Monday and more than 45,000 students missed classes after about half the district's teachers called out sick to protest the possibility that some of them won't get paid over the summer if the struggling district runs ...
After a few years of Detroit domination, two foreign automakers have nabbed 2016 North American Car and Truck/Utility of the Year honors. A panel of about 55 independent automotive journalists selected the Honda Civic and Volvo XC90 on Monday. The winners were unveiled at the ...
When it comes to Detroit, much of the attention and investment has gone to downtown, Midtown, Corktown and even Mexicantown. But one area coming back on its own terms and with a little less fanfare belongs to part of "Uptown," specifically, a stretch of ...
Chinese investment is playing a significant part in protecting Detroit from a return to the crumbling urban disaster of recent headlines.
A wall of silence surrounds a shootout at a block party in Detroit that left a 19-year-old gunman dead and 11 other people wounded, police Chief James Craig said Sunday from the site where about 300 people had barbecued and celebrated hours earlier. Standing on ...
A Detroit-area woman turned 116 on Saturday, but she offers no secret for a long life. "There's nothing I can do about it," said Jeralean Talley of Inkster ahead of her birthday weekend. Talley was to celebrate her birthday twice, including at a party on Sunday ...
