Detroit News

Infantry, cavalry and artillery demonstrations take place this weekend in Detroit as part of Civil War Days at Historic Fort Wayne.

Detroit Public Schools are hoping to reinvent themselves. Emergency financial manager Robert Bobb has named four educational partners with proven track records of raising student achievement to oversee the transformation of the failing school district.

Detroit -- Wayne County Clerk Cathy Garrett this afternoon determined that the $976,493 in campaign funds used by former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick last year to pay his lawyers was "proper under the campaign finance law." Garrett had asked Secretary of State Terri Lyn Land to determine if legal fees were allowable under state law.

Seven law enforcement agencies in Michigan, including the Livingston County Sheriff's Department received a total of $1.6 million in drug forfeiture funds for their role in busting up a money laundering operation, U.S Attorney Terrence Berg announced today in Detroit.

Seven people from the Detroit area are facing federal charges in two mortgage schemes that investigators say were worth millions.

FERNDALE, Mich. - An 80-year-old suburban Detroit man accused of molesting a young girl over many years while baby-sitting her has pleaded guilty to sex charges.

Detroit -- La-Van Hawkins, who rose from Chicago gang member to multimillionaire fast-food mogul before losing it all and landing in prison, vowed Thursday to rise again from poverty, help drive Detroit's economic rebirth and employ its youth.

Detroit -- After more than two years of planning and construction, the new high-tech Rosa Parks Transit Center in downtown Detroit is on the verge of its grand opening.

An arbitrator says Detroit must rehire a 911 operator convicted of willful neglect of duty for ignoring a boy's call about his unconscious mother, who later died.

A Detroit police officer whose job is to investigate auto thefts now faces charges that he stole more than $26,000 in reward money that was supposed to go to tipsters who help curb auto thefts.

An Amtrak passenger train carrying about 170 people struck a car at a road crossing near Detroit on Thursday, killing all five people in the sedan, authorities said.

The state-appointed overseer of the cash-strapped Detroit Public Schools plans to meet with a retired U.S. bankruptcy judge.

A divided Michigan Supreme Court is letting a gunshot victim sue a Detroit 911 operator for intentional infliction of emotional distress after the skeptical operator asked if she was a "mental patient." The high court voted 4-3 Wednesday to deny the appeal of 911 dispatcher Kimberly Langford, letting Lorraine Hayes' lawsuit go to trial.

Then-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick sits in court during on August 8, 2008. The Michigan Secretary of State's office says the Wayne County clerk should ask ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to provide a letter from the Internal Revenue Service to determine whether he properly used nearly $980,000 in campaign finance funds to pay his lawyers.

Lansing -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed legislation Thursday that seeks to preserve the North American International Auto Show at Cobo Center.

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. - A 73-year-old man has been cleared of charges he was a smooth-talking con artist who stole from elderly women in the Detroit area.

Some members of the Detroit City Council said they're unhappy with billboards throughout the city that boast Colt 45 malt liquor "works every time." The council spent part of Tuesday looking at ways to regulate such advertising after residents complained they were offended by the billboards featuring a cartoon representation of actor Billy Dee ...

A federal judge has dismissed parts of a lawsuit brought by a top City of Detroit attorney who said she was illegally demoted for calling a downtown court a "ghetto court." U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Tarnow ruled Tuesday the 36th District Court and Chief Judge Marylin Atkins, in her official capacity, both have immunity.

Detroit police are searching for a serial rapist who they believe has attacked at least four women on the city's east side.

Class work is being delivered to five students shot while waiting for a Detroit city bus following a day of summer school.