Hamtramck News

'Friday Follies' on 'The Craig Fahle Show' tackles whether the DIA could lose its art collection if city goes belly-up and whether Gov.

Detroit's emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, is considering whether the collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts should be counted as a city asset.

The independent, five-member Financial Review Team appointed April 17, 2013 to examine the City of Hamtramck's finances under Public Act 436 of 2012 has concluded that a local government financial emergency currently exists in Hamtramck.

Gerald Brent Gresham, 42, is accused of eavesdropping on the principal of Hamtramck High School, where they both work.

Hamtramck could be the next Michigan city with an emergency manager after a state-appointed financial review team today declared a financial emergency there.

His arrest happened May 22 after police received a call from a passerby who saw a person in the bushes near a house on Ardmore.

A state review team has concluded that a financial emergency exists in Hamtramck, the Michigan Department of Treasury said Thursday.

A man planning to take his deceased wife's ashes to a memorial service for her mother says his car and the ashes inside it were stolen in Detroit.

Six journalists from the eastern European country of Georgia visited the Birmingham and Detroit area recently as part of the Open World Leadership Program sponsored by the U.S. Congress to promote understanding for emerging leaders of participating countries and their U.S. counterparts.

AMBASSADOR BRIDGE LAUREN. DO YOU THINK YOU CAN DO THAT? IN THIS MORNING'S MAKING A DIFFERENCE SEGMENT WE WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOU TO THE REVEREND GLORIA.

The programs offer an opportunity for individuals to settle their old debts with the court while allowing the courts to clear up a backlog of files without substantial additional costs.

Family-owned Hamtramck bar Capo shuttered its doors four years ago, but reopened in January under its old moniker at the corner of Jos.

THERE'S A LINE in Kurt Vonnegut's classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five that reads, "He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next." Members of the Vonneguts can probably relate.

Members of the Paint Lake CCC camp near Gibbs City are shown in this photo from 1933.

The city of Hamtramck is offering people the chance to pay overdue bills and fines without penalty throughout the month of May as part of an amnesty program.

Blowout was held in both Hamtramck and Ferndale for the first time ever, and each city had an entirely different scene.

Up on the rooftops - There's a new venue in downtown Detroit. It's called Sticks & Bones , and it's atop Music Hall, where the rooftop restaurant is joined by 3Fifty Terrace, a new entertainment space.

The 16th annual Metro Times Blowout got underway Thursday, April 25 with an action-packed launch party at the Magic Stick in Detroit.

A 2012 Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle is parked at the solar-powered electric charging station at General Motors Co's assembly plant in Hamtramck, Mich.

Chevrolet's flagship Impala for 2014 comes with handsome new styling, seating for five adults and a choice of three engines.