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A tiny insect with a voracious appetite has found its way to Metro Detroit and soon could pose a big threat to Michigan’s fruit and vegetable crops. Called the brown marmorated stink bug, it devours a variety of plants, which has growers and agriculture experts becoming more concerned since there are no state or federal eradication programs.
Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr may place more safeguards to ensure Detroit’s pension trustees are spending money wisely in the wake of a scheduled trip by some trustees to a conference in Hawaii.
On an extended drive-about from Australia, Brendan Edgerton parked his $150 right-hand drive 1989 Holden Commodore at the entrance to the Henry Ford Museum. He had come to see Tucker automobile #16, one of the world’s 47 existing Tuckers built by automotive dreamer Preston Tucker in 1948.
An anticipated record Powerball jackpot tonight of at least $600 million has lottery players in Metro Detroit and across the nation dreaming.
A Birmingham entrepreneur wants to turn more than 80 acres of vacant land once owned by General Motors Co. in Pontiac into a destination for car enthusiasts that would include more than 300 “car condominiums” to house their valuable, classic and exotic cars.
Lexington — Carol Connell remembers well the gift she gave Sara Ylen, a friend seemingly forced to bear too much misery. Ylen, a Michigan mother of two young boys, said she was battling cancer just a few years after a man was convicted of her rape.
Grosse Pointe Park — Neighbors in the 1300 block of Wayburn Street were shocked to hear of the homicide of a 35-year-old woman as the peace in the usually quiet neighborhood was disrupted by law enforcement officers investigating the crime scene.
Detroit — Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan told members of the Detroit City Council and other supporters not to let the struggling city collapse under the weight of its financial crisis and other challenges.
Grosse Pointe Park — Police have taken a suspect into custody after an attempted firebombing of the home of a prominent local family early Friday morning.
Dearborn — The Arab International Festival will not be returning this summer as planned, organizers said Friday.
Royal Oak — A charming pair of baby warthogs — with their gray, wrinkly skin, elongated snouts and long, tasseled tails — are frolicking around the Detroit Zoo’s African grasslands habitat, the result of a successful breeding effort to sustain threatened and endangered species.
Oh, the Red Wings are outmanned, and it was evident in Wednesday night’s 4-1 loss. But after practicing at Joe Louis Arena on Friday before hopping on the plane back to Chicago, the Red Wings better understood the task, and felt better equipped to handle it.
Lansing — Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration has claimed the once-secret “skunk works” education reform project was not a government-sanctioned work group, but newly obtained administration correspondence suggests otherwise.
So far in the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs, third periods are not the Red Wings’ best phase. The Blackhawks and Ducks have outscored them, 15-5. But how much does it matter, and is there a specific cause?
If age is only a number, then height serves the same meaningless purpose for Michigan’s Trey Burke, the national player of the year. He feels his skill set and ...
Paris — Thieves ripped a safe from the wall of a hotel room near the Cannes Film Festival and made off with around $1 million worth of jewelry, in a brazen ...
General Motors Co.’s stock closed at $33.42 a share Friday, up 3.18 percent and hitting its highest close in more than two years.
Washington — A top House Republican blasted the Internal Revenue Service for “lying” to the American people at the first congressional hearing since the agency ...
Washington — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Friday ordered the military to recertify all 25,000 people involved in programs designed to prevent and ...
Toronto — A video purportedly of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack has caused an uproar in Canada. Ford on Friday called the allegations “ridiculous.”
In April, for the first time in 18 months, monthly new auto registrations in Europe increased.
Recent history suggests they can’t. The salary cap is designed so they won’t. But that won’t stop the Blackhawks from trying to become the kind of team that ...
Daimler AG has unveiled the newest version of its S-Class model from luxury brand Mercedes-Benz, a car that will play a key role in the company’s effort to ...
Not one to sound a premature alarm, Leyland by Friday had long since moved on from the fact that Verlander encountered the single worst inning of his career — ...
While movie critics have been falling over each other trying to find the pithiest adjectives for 'flop,' director Baz Luhrmann's giddy, 3-D film adaptation of ...
Oladipo rose up the draft boards this past season because of his stellar play on both ends of the floor, especially his ability to disrupt offenses by being ...
Washington — The organic food industry is gaining influence on Capitol Hill, prompted by its entry into traditional farm states and by increasing consumer ...
Help is on the way. Maybe. Red Wings forward Drew Miller (broken bone, hand) could be in the lineup for Game 2 of the Western Conference semifinals on Saturday ...
The Michigan softball team’s quest for its second national championship couldn’t have gotten off to a better start. In front of a packed crowd, Driesenga ...
The ugly news out of Hollywood this week was: It continues to be a man's world when it comes to movies. While that might be alarmingly, even increasingly, true, ...
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