Police report this is 4th child shooting death in 2016 in the city, 35th since 2013

Detroit's hard-pressed school system has found elevated levels of lead and copper in nearly a third of its elementary schools, contamination that one expert says could be found nationwide, wherever school authorities spend the time and money to look.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Office of Field Operations at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport says it has seized $4,650,000 in counterfeit U.S. currency from a Vietnamese couple. The CBP says the couple attempted to import the counterfeit U.S. $100 bills and counterfeit bills in the national currency of Vietnam into the United States. The CBP says the bills were going to be offered as burnt-offerings to the deceased...

Detroit, which joins Montreal, Berlin, Helsinki and others, has its roots in good design solutions.

Nowhere in America bulldozes derelict homes with Detroit’s ferocity, as the city that has become a byword for U.S. urban decay seeks to engineer a recovery by tearing itself down.

Explore the past, present, and future of the city of Detroit through it's landmarks and lesser-known abandoned buildings on Detroiturbex.com.

For Jazley Trouser, a 25-year-old Home Depot worker who has endured her share of hard times, the opportunity to become a homeowner was too good to pass up. With a $1,000 bid on the city’s online auction site, Trouser bought a four-bedroom Tudor plundered by thieves. A $25,000 grant from a community bank covered her renovation costs. Now she owns the 1929 home, restored to its former glory, mortgage free.

Detroit Red Wing Gordie Howe scores his 600th goal in a game against the Montreal Canadiens. He was the first (and the last, until Wayne Gretzky) NHL player to score 600 times in his career. He’d broken the previous record–544 goals, set by the legendary Canadien Maurice “Rocket” Richard–in November 1963.

Detroit’s Big Three automakers are accelerating plans to produce more small cars for the North American market in Mexico as they seek to reduce labor costs, while using higher-paid U.S. workers to build their very profitable trucks, sport utility vehicles and luxury cars.

A video has emerged of a McDonald's worker teasing a homeless man with a burger before throwing a cup of water on him. Filmed by a customer at one of the restaurant chain's Detroit stores, the video has been viewed over 180, 000 times since it was uploaded on Friday.

One family fights to win their house back in the Wayne County [Michigan] foreclosure auction after being scammed by a sub-subprime entrepreneur. By Allie Gross.

In a small factory in the UK — yes, the UK — a Lotus-based electric sports car with an American name has defied the naysayers and become a reality.

The Governor of Michigan says his state should take more refugees in but not everyone agrees. Bisi Onlie-Ere reports.

Dombrowski 'fought off ownership so that it didn't happen much earlier,' according to an unnamed source

"We are very interested in the dynamics and the energy and the movement," says co-founder Ralf Hütter

BOSTON -- The Red Sox demonstrated their strong desire to bring the organization back to prominence by hiring Dave Dombrowski to be their president of baseball operations, effective immediately. General manager Ben Cherington declined the opportunity to continue as GM, but he has agreed to assist Dombrowski during the transition. Former Braves GM Frank Wren is the front-runner for the position, according to a report by USA Today.

Linda Gadsden spent years living next door to an overgrown and weed-filled dumping ground. By next summer, the 63-year-old Detroiter says it will be a lush garden with pumpkins, watermelon, tomatoes, lettuce and greens. It cost Gadsden less than two hours and $100 to snap up the property next to her corner lot home on Indiana Avenue during a Detroit Land Bank Authority side lot sale fair last month.

The word “techno” has certainly taken on its fair share of interpretations in the course of its history. It is undeniably culturally significant not only to devotees of electronic music, but also to understanding the trajectory of the world’s sonic history as we know it. As the new generation of dance music lovers, we owe it to ourselves to understand the places from which we came.

Schoolcraft College’s renowned culinary arts department is headed to the bar. The Livonia-based community college is offering a brewing and distillation certificate, starting this fall. The 24-credit program will train fledgling brewers in various skills with courses like brewing science, brewhouse operations and technology, beer styles and flavors and more.

Avila will assume all responsibilities related to baseball operations and he will report directly to Mike Ilitch.