River Rouge News

The only time I ever met Henry Ford, he looked at me and probably wondered, "Who is this little s.o.b. fresh out of college?" He wasn't real big on college graduates, and I was one of 50 in the Ford training course in September 1946, working in a huge drafting room at the enormous River Rouge plant near Detroit.

After council discussed a draft of amendments to the ordinance this September -- a move that drew some ire from St.

The Old Newsboys' Goodfellow Fund of Detroit said Thursday it had raised 98% of its 2011 goal for the holiday fund-raising season that ended Tuesday.

An unexplained rumbling disturbed hundreds of Windsor, Ont., residents this weekend to the extent that some thought it was an earthquake, prompting calls for Ottawa to step in.

A Downriver firefighter accused of sexually abusing his teenage daughter was bound over to Wayne County Circuit Court on Wednesday.

RIVER ROUGE, Mich. - Students and colleagues are speaking out against the ousting of the River Rouge School District's Superintendent.

The superintendent for River Rouge Schools is without a job as of Saturday night, but he is still getting paid.

The Michigan Citizen's Jan. 8 story on new limits for mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants reported on the serious health impacts on persons consuming mercury-laced fish from the Detroit River and other Great Lakes waters.