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Detroit firefighters made their way into the house at 7418 E. Kirby just after 5 a.m. to beat down what was left of a fire they'd sprayed with 1,000 gallons of water.

Michigan will lose 225,000 jobs - 5 percent of its total payroll - next year if two of the Detroit automakers file for bankruptcy, Comerica Bank's chief economist warned in his latest report on the state's ...

The chairman of the Senate Banking Committee warned that a collapse of Detroit's Big Three automakers could throw the economy into a cataclysmic tailspin.

Three of the top contenders for mayor Tuesday night took aim at the issues and each other in a lively debate that touched on crime, ethics, the city's financial mess and who has the right experience to lead the ...

UAW President Ron Gettlefinger today said the union will suspend the jobs bank and delay the 2010 payment into a retiree health-care trust.

A 63-year-old Detroit-area woman is headed to trial in the death of a woman who was dating her former boyfriend.

A person was found dead in a suspicious fire in an empty warehouse this morning, prompting an arson investigation.

While Detroit's automakers are making a second bid for $25 billion in funding in Washington Tuesday, local leaders have kicked off a campaign to garner national support for the domestic automakers.

A former Detroit woman who died in Florida last year at 95 has left the city half of her $600,000 estate to help maintain Belle Isle, a park in the Detroit River.

United Auto Worker leaders from across the United States will meet in Detroit Tuesday to discuss more contract concessions to reduce costs to strapped automobile companies.

The discussions are just over a year after the UAW and the Big Three Auto Workers negotiated groundbreaking reductions to contracts as a means to support the flagging automobile companies.

Those contracts set lower labor rates for new employees and called for the transition of health care for retirees to a union-operated consortium to reduce Big Three costs.

Last month, when leaders from the UAW and Chrysler, Ford and GM approached congress for approval of a $25 Billion bridge loan to cover expenses, the UAW was criticized for not making enough sacrifice in its contracts.

This occurred after the same Congress approved a $700 Billion bailout with no guarantee of repayment for the banking system with no questions asked.

LANSING -- State lawmakers and Gov. Jennifer Granholm face yet another budget deficit and more potentially clamorous issues as the Legislature begins its lame-duck session this week.

Ex-mayoral aide pleads guilty in Detroit scandal BY ED WHITE : Associated Press Writer Dec 1, 2008 Stoic and publicly silent through months of a sex scandal, the woman whose relationship with former Mayor Kwame ...

An attorney for former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick late today filed a petition with the state Attorney Discipline Board to have the revocation of Kilpatrick's law license downgraded to a suspension.

The Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy group will present a plan to the Detroit City Council today, showing they will be able to raise the at least $12 million needed to save a portion of the stadium from ...

Monday, December 01, 2008 at 8:30 a.m. LANSING A - In her weekly radio address, Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today said that Thanksgiving Day in Michigan means different things to different people and ...

St. Clair County authorities say an 87-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease apparently was strangled by her 91-year-old husband, who then tried to kill himself.

Being an ear, nose and throat specialist in Iraq doesn't feel so dangerous any more for Kareem, one of 27 Iraqi medical doctors who spent the past month learning about health care in the United States.

Thanksgiving travelers returning to Detroit Metro Airport Sunday for the annual trek home after holiday festivities experienced some delays in the air but even bigger delays on the roads as slushy snow created ...

A plea deal for Christine Beatty could be sealed Monday morning according to sources aware of efforts over the past week to resolve the perjury and obstruction of justice case against her without a trial.

Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Craig Strong shot at three men suspected of robbing his home at 7:15 p.m. today on the 1700 block of Seminole in Detroit's Indian Village, police said.