Detroit MI

The dramatic scene was captured on a police body camera in the area of 18 Mile Road and Van Dyke on Monday.

DETROIT – Another day marked off the calendar means another day without heat for the people living inside the Alden Towers on Detroit’s east side. The city issued a correction order to the apartment last week, but the heat still was not back on Tuesday. The apartment says...

It may be cold out but polar bears don't mind. The Detroit Zoo has the largest polar bear enclosure in the United States and it's open in the winter months.

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. - Two men will spend the rest of their lives in prison for killing an Oakland County man. Carlos Hernandez, age 39, and Joshua Zuazo, age 40, both residents of Dearborn, were sentenced to life without parole Tuesday for the murder of Hussein “Sam” Murray and the unlawful imprisonment of his...

An 18-year-old is recovering after a violent road rage incident left him with deep cuts to his face and body in Royal Oak.

This is the fifth installment in “Exploring Integrity: Reviewing Wrongful Conviction Remedies,” a series examining the impact of conviction integrity units on the American judicial system’s rate of wrongful conviction. Presented by the O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism, the investigation is supported by...

In the chill of a Detroit morning, one father's instinct to protect shines a light on community care and responsibility.

HAMTRAMCK, Mich. – Firefighters have rescued a man from the roof of his home after a house fire in Hamtramck. The incident occurred on Monday (Dec. 8) in the 1900 block of Belmont Street. The fire department said the fire started in the rear of the home, prompting the...

Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has filed a motion asking the federal judge who sentenced him to relieve him of about $831,000 he owes Detroit taxpayers in restitution as a result of his public corruption conviction in 2013. In a motion filed on Monday by Kilpatrick himself, he writes that he...

When voters overwhelmingly approved a reparations ballot initiative in 2021, they tasked the city with confronting deep-seated, long-standing injustices. In 2023, the Detroit Reparations Task Force — a 13-member body composed of Detroit residents and community leaders — began intensive work, gathering public input,...