Southfield News

The city of Southfield will host the 4th annual Small Business Conference at 8 a.m., Friday, July 17, in the meeting room at the Southfield Public Library, 26300 Evergreen Road.

Detroit -- Mayor Dave Bing is to meet with the U.S. Attorney General's office today to look at ways to curb violence in the city.

A shoot-out near an area school sends several people to the hospital. It's tonight's big story.

Detroit police say seven Detroit Public Schools students were shot shortly after classes at Cody Ninth Grade Academy let out for the day.

After 17 years, Morton's the Steakhouse closed its doors Friday in Southfield's One Towne Square, blaming slow business.

SOUTHFIELD - Though it was tough to cut nearly $10 million out of the district's 2009-10 budget, it's the following year that has Southfield school officials even more worried.

While Southfield's Star Spangled fireworks festival was held on Wednesday, with about 15,000 in attendance, the city still has a big line up of events leading up to the Fourth of July holiday.

Linnie Taylor went to Monday's Southfield City Council meeting just as she had dozens of times over the last four or five years - as an interested resident.

Southfield's Cornerstone Development Authority has presented a check for $10,000 to Aureus Properties L.L.C. as part of a new Tenant Recruitment Incentive Program .

SOUTHFIELD - Mayor Brenda Lawrence is in a three-way race to keep her job, with the first step along the way coming during the Sept.

A new tech toy is on sale and creating a new buzz in Metro Detroit and across the nation.

Sen. Gilda Z. Jacobs will discuss Michigan's tax structure and how it affects state revenues and funding for state and local services at a town hall meeting on July 6. Senator Jacobs' guest at the town hall will be Southfield Treasurer Irv Lowenberg.

Three men were arrested Saturday morning after an armed robbery, chase and gunfight with Southfield police.

A settlement conference is to be held June 24 in Oakland County Circuit Court in a whistle-blower lawsuit filed by the former facility manager of Southfield's Millennium Centre against a city authority claiming she was wrongfully fired after reporting a colleague for billing for work he'd already been paid for.

As expected, Southfield City Councilwoman Sylvia Jordan has filed to contest incumbent Brenda Lawrence in the mayoral race in the Sept.

A late spring rain cleared up Thursday, just in time for the cool sounds of the GEQ band to pour over Southfield residents and employees of area businesses who gathered at noon at the first Eat to the Beat lunch concert.

A possible lightning strike and subsequent fire have destroyed the "House in the Woods," a historical symbol of Lathrup Village.

A historic mansion in Lathrup Village is destroyed after a house fire Friday morning.

This weekend's orange barrel stampede takes aim at the Southfield Freeway and the interchange of I-94 and I-275 in Wayne County.

The Star Spangled Southfield Fireworks display is to be Wednesday. The event is to be held on the front lawn of the Southfield municipal complex, 26000 Evergreen, starting at 7 p.m. with a police dog demonstration.