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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.
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.
Hickory Corners, Mich. — A new Ford dealership is opening up in southwestern Michigan.
Lansing — Three people who bought Mega Millions tickets in Michigan have won $250,000 prizes in the multistate lottery game.
An 18-year-old Pontiac man was charged Friday with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of his 17-year-old girlfriend earlier this week.
A 5.2 earthquake reported by Earthquakes Canada in Aylmer, Quebec, on Friday morning was felt in Metro Detroit.
Here’s a bitter little fact of life, my fellow Michigan motorists: When seat belt usage drops, the chances of dying behind the wheel goes up.
Lansing — Millions of dollars from a petroleum tax have been diverted to plug holes in the state budget and pay interest on debt, Michigan's auditor ...
Traverse City — The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is stepping up salvaging of trees that are dying from infestations of the emerald ash borer ...
Grand Rapids — Officials are boosting the estimate for spring flooding property damage in Kent County to $10.6 million.
Flint — The sister of an ex-Marine incarcerated in Iran for nearly two years has met with a Swiss ambassador about her brother's case as part of an ...
Michigan’s year-old law allowing the sale and use of airborne fireworks could be changed after it enflamed public complaints last summer because of late-night ...
Sister Carol Juhasz, 63, a pastoral associate at St. Joan of Arc in St. Clair Shores, was stricken with breast cancer and given six months to live in March. ...
The former Detroit mayor took his fight for freedom to a federal appeals court Thursday, arguing he is vulnerable to a prison attack due to a bum knee.
Detroit — A cross-dressing child porn suspect caused a stir in federal court Thursday when he showed up in a tan halter top, stuffed red bra and long red hair.
Detroit — In his first two days back in his hometown, incoming Police Chief James Craig got a taste of what he’ll deal with as Detroit’s top cop.
Detroit — A promising weather forecast, a more favorable spot on the calendar and a revelation by actress Angelina Jolie all are contributing to what ...
Orion Township — The Oakland County Sheriff's Office is seeking a suspect in the theft of electronics at a Lake Orion Community Schools building.
Monroe — Two bodies discovered Thursday on the western part of Lake Erie near the Detroit River lighthouse have been “tentatively” identified as the fishermen ...
Birmingham — Detroit Mayor Dave Bing and Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano shared a stage Thursday at a leadership gathering, and their possible political ...
Some students in the state will have their MEAP math tests regraded after the Michigan Department of Education discovered questions in some versions shouldn’t ...
The Detroit News analyzed 200,000 pages of Detroit data on property taxes and found that nearly half of the owners of Detroit’s 305,000 properties failed to pay their tax bills last year. The findings prompted a two-day series and an interactive map showing percentage of taxes paid by census tract.
Follow the progress and the protests as emergency manager Kevyn Orr tries to guide the city onto firmer financial footing.
Follow our day-by-day, expanded coverage of the public corruption trial of Kilpatrick, his father Bernard and contractor Bobby Ferguson in federal court.
An in-depth look at the city’s crime problem: the human toll, its impact on the region and the struggle for solutions.
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