Detroit News

Two days into disaster relief efforts following the Moore, Okla., tornado, Metro Detroiters are increasingly mobilizing with fundraising, supply donations and at least one caravan of volunteers who are planning a cross-country road trip to aid in rebuilding.

That is the unlikely message Detroit Police Officers Association union President Mark Diaz has for Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr, the man who wields the power to strike down union agreements at his whim.

A vacant commercial building fire sent smoke and debris flying over the bridge on I-75 in Southwest Detroit.

A Royal Oak-based film crew is visiting West Michigan this week to get footage for a Grand Rapids-specific Pure Michigan travel marketing commercial that airs June 3. "It's a very fast turnaround," said Michelle Begnoche, spokesperson for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, the state's marketing arm.

It's a three-story pile of black petroleum coke that could cover an entire city block and it's the by-product of oil sands bitumen drilling in Alberta, Canada.

The region's Wayne County Brownfield Redevelopment Authority has received a $600,000 federal grant that will be used to assess more than 30 sites around Detroit that have been impacted by contaminants from commercial industrial uses.

Police are looking for a man who they say abducted, robbed and sexually assaulted a woman who was trying to help another person in the city's east side.

The focus for severe storms will shift eastward into the Ohio Valley on Wednesday, bringing the threat for damaging winds, hail and heavy rainfall.

Some plastic containers burst into flames, sending plumes of black smoke into the air in Windsor near the Detroit River.

When Kevin Saunderson, along with his Belleville, Mich. buddies Derrick May and Juan Atkins all but invented the genre of techno music in the mid-'80s, the idea that he might be one of the most respected electronic musicians in the world - that he'd be one of the main attractions at a Detroit festival attracting people from all over the world and ... (more)

Moby used to play in a hardcore punk band called the Vatican Commandos, and then a post-punk band called AWOL.

A trial is set to start in Mount Clemens for two men charged in what police say was a plot to have a pregnant Detroit woman killed because one of the men didn't want another child.

The former chief administrative and technology officer of the Detroit Public Library has been charged with taking more than $1.4 million in bribes and kickbacks from contracts of the library.

A Wayne County judge opened up Tuesday during his misconduct hearing about his affair with a woman who appeared as a witness in a child-support case in his court.

"If you're a firefighter digging through an elementary school, you probably need to talk to someone about what that did to you." A woman carries a child through a field Monday near the collapsed Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla.

The district dedicates entire schools to specialized instruction on specific career areas including medicine, alternative energy, foreign languages, performing arts and, most uniquely, aerospace.

The city's nine Democratic state House members announced an auto insurance reform package Monday that seeks to drive down the rates Detroiters pay as well as make public information from a $14 billion fund for catastrophic accident claims.

An effort to execute an arrest warrant ended in death early Tuesday morning at a home in the city's Corktown area.

DETROIT, MI - Video surfaced Tuesday of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan addressing a Detroit church last week and it gives his take on the city's challenges and what needs to happen for residents to overcome them.

IT AND UPDATES COMING UP ON LOCAL 4. Karen: CLOSER TO HOME AT THIS HOUR, MISSING 3-YEAR-OLD DROPPED OFF AT A RELATIVE'S HOME THIS MORNING, AT ONE POINT THE SUBJECT OF AN AMBER ALERT.