Ferndale News

BY GINA DAMRON, NAOMI R. PATTON, BILL LAITNER and ALEXANDRA BAHOU * FREE PRESS STAFF WRITERS * August 17, 2008 Anything was possible.

Today was another day at the cruise and I was looking for something different. And there it was: a hot rod bearing "313" and "the D," which is all slang for Detroit for my generation.

THE DREAM LIVES ON Gas crises? Global warming? All that will be forgotten on Saturday when an expected 30,000 vehicles spend the day rolling -- slowly -- up and down Woodward Avenue at the 14th Annual Woodward ...

There was plenty of room for Erica Nader's wheelchair at the Woodward Avenue Salon in Ferndale: The doorways met regulation and were 32 inches wide, and there were support rails in the spacious bathroom.

The City Council will step in Monday to decide whether a proposed $4.7 million library expansion with a single-story footprint should go forward over the objection of the city plan commission.

Community leaders around Metro Detroit expressed disgust at the latest development in the ongoing scandal involving Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, with many calling for his resignation.

A party -- especially one that attracts 1.5 million car enthusiasts to your city -- requires cold cash to host.

Don't want to deal with traffic? Tune into the Dream Cruise via radio or television and get all the action from home.

Jamie Wittenberg and Denise Brainard were the top two vote-getters Tuesday in a five-way race for judge of 45-A District Court in Berkley.

Voters throughout Oakland County are getting a glimpse of Southfield Mayor Brenda Lawrence today as part of a multi-community tour designed to promote her bid for county executive.

Three Ferndale teens in a red Pontiac Grand Prix targeted women in two on-street strong-arm robberies in Ferndale and Royal Oak over the weekend, police say.

A man accused of firing several shots at a group of local workers following an argument was later found by Ferndale police hiding in the dryer at his girlfriend's house.

Tucked in the middle of a quaint residential block stands the shell of the first of three new town house-style condo buildings in Grosse Pointe Park.

A man suspected of firing a handgun following a run-in with several employees at a carpet cleaning business on Hilton Road was arrested when police say they found him hiding inside a dryer at a nearby house.

Two people were arrested on Thursday after police responded to a 911 call about shots being fired in a Ferndale neighborhood.

A little over 18 months ago, musician Spencer Bell died, 11 days after walking into the emergency room complaining of stomach pains.

The Woodward Dream Cruise is one of the best automotive events you probably never have attended, unless you live near Detroit or you've decided it was a better place for your DeSoto or Pontiac GTO than the ...

Madonna is on Jennifer Zablocki's iPod. So is "The Madonna." The 12th-grade teacher from Royal Oak works up a sweat to the pop diva's music as well as songs honoring Mary, the mother of Jesus.

It's important for area residents to know that Gizmo has officially had it. He's had it with people falling over themselves for dogs.

Any resemblance to David pummeling Goliath is purely coincidental. Still, this little city of just more than 6,000 residents has effectively triumphed over the troubled behemoth city of Detroit, which sought to ...