(Patch) – Last year during a testy exchange between “Real Housewives of Atlanta” stars NeNe Leakes and Kenya Moore, Leakes challenged Moore to give $20,000 to...
ALISHA GREEN, Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Chronic understaffing and police attitudes toward victims contributed to thousands of rape kits going untested for years in...
(Reuters) – A judge on Wednesday entered a not guilty plea for a man charged with drug possession who was dragged from his car, struck...
ED WHITE, Associated Press COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A teenager told authorities that her mother killed two siblings and forced her to put...
(Bloomberg) — Cindy Gresham paid $6,000 cash in 2010 for her Tudor-style house on Detroit’s west side for herself and three children. Now she probably...
(Detroit Free-Press) – The Detroiter who stunned the world with Olympian walks to his suburban factory job — and stunned himself by attracting gifts of...
(CBS News) – For all its apparent conveniences and perks, city living has never been easy or inexpensive. And income inequality is often most obvious...
DETROIT (USA Today) — After years of huffin’ and puffin’, logging 21 miles by foot to get to and from work, James Robertson can breathe...
WASHINGTON (McClatchy) — Former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida went to one of America’s most troubled cities Wednesday to lay out the economic principles for a...
COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Chris Mathews’ crew showed up this month to demolish one of the thousands of vacant homes destined for demolition...
Corey Williams, ASSOCIATED PRESS DETROIT (AP) — Protesters on Wednesday called for criminal charges to be brought against two police officers who appear to be...
WAYNE, Mich. (Politico) — President Barack Obama’s State of the Union sales pitch started early, and so did the intraparty fight over what’s expected to...
(USA Today) – The power failure that plunged Detroit’s schools, fire stations, traffic signals and public buildings into darkness Tuesday reflects a larger problem of...
by Curt Guyette Special to the NNPA from The Michigan Citizen The grins stretched from ear to ear, and the hugs and back-patting were plentiful. Emergency...
Matt Helms, DETROIT FREE PRESS DETROIT (Detroit Free Press)—The oversight board that will monitor Detroit’s finances after the city officially emerges from bankruptcy has established...
PART II by Zenobia Jeffries Special to the NNPA from The Michigan Citizen There is a racial imbalance to opportunity and outcome in Detroit’s revitalization a...
COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — The largest U.S. city to endure bankruptcy has exited insolvency $7 billion lighter in debt, but the effects of...
ED WHITE, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — A judge on Friday approved Detroit’s plan to get out of bankruptcy, ending the largest public filing in U.S....
JEFF KAROUB, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — United Nations human rights experts described Detroit’s mass water shut-offs as “a man-made perfect storm” Monday and called on...
Special to the NNPA from The Michigan Citizen DETROIT — On Oct. 1, Ingham County Judge Joyce Draganchuk ruled against the Detroit Public School Board’s vote to...
by C. Kelly Special to the NNPA from The Michigan Citizen Technology is fundamentally changing the world in which we live. Just as the 1880s...
T. Kelly, Special to the NNPA from The Michigan Citizen DETROIT (The Michigan Citizen)—The Michigan Democratic Party is rolling out an aggressive plan to win the African...
COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Detroit’s chief financial officer acknowledged Thursday that officials may have to make “adjustments” to a plan aimed at reducing...
COREY WILLIAMS, Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Opening arguments in Detroit’s historic bankruptcy trial are expected to begin Tuesday afternoon in federal court, where lawyers for...
(USA Today) DETROIT — As car lovers from across the country and around the world gather for the Woodward Dream Cruise on Saturday, the dream...
