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U.S. District Judge David Lawson just indicated in court that he will declare a mistrial in the Bobby Ferguson bid-rigging case. The jury has not yet signed verdict forms reaching that conclusion, but Lawson just gave them the opportunity to do so, meaning they will no longer be deliberating in the case.
Snyder was hustled out after about a half-hour of discussion on voting registration legislation that is awaiting Snyder’s signature, the consent agreement, and a second span across the Detroit River that Snyder supports.
He's scheduled to discuss the 90-day campaign at 2 p.m. at the site of home that's to be demolished on Coram, between Hayes and Brock, near Denby High School, according to a release issued by his spokeswoman, Naomi Patton, this morning. More than 350 structures on the new list were identified by students, parents and patrol volunteers of Denby, Osborn and Cody High School, Patton said.
Mulally testified before Senate Banking Committee on Nov. 4, 2008, in support of the rescue for his competitors.
Detroit City Council president Charles Pugh engaged in a back-and-forth on Twitter over the weekend with an intern for Automotive News.
Tracy Sych watched Monday as yet another house in her hardscrabble east-side Detroit neighborhood near Chene and Ferry burned. Sadly, the scene isn't unusual. Sych said there have been seven fires within three blocks of her house in the last 10 days.
Rather than spend her summer chilling out with friends, 17-year-old Detroit high schooler Nina Wilson has a better idea.
Spectators watch the fireworks over the Detroit River from Hart Plaza in Detroit, MI.
Police presence was strong for the 54th annual Target Fireworks in downtown Detroit on Monday night, with more than two dozen mounted police trotting along Jefferson Avenue two-by-two, to officers stopping anyone who looked remotely younger than 17 without an adult.
An event this week in Detroit aims to make thousands of jobs available to veterans.
On Friday, U.S. District Judge David Lawson dismissed a female juror because the woman had prepaid vacation plans and was promised her travel would not be interrupted by the case.
The increased police presence and 6 p.m. curfew for minors resulted in noticeably fewer people downtown -- and no people along the normally packed RiverWalk near the Renaissance Center.
Wayne State University hosted Gov. Rick Snyder today as he signed a bill authorizing more than $300 million in spending on Michigan universities.
Local and federal law enforcement officers arrested 70 people — and recovered 6 teenagers — during a three-day crackdown on child prostitution.
Private First Class Steven Stevens grew up in Detroit and went to Afghanistan on March 21—just days before his son was born March 29, family members said.
The layoffs could be temporary, as the city hopes to secure a federal grant that would restore the jobs of 108 of those firefighters. Still, there is no guarantee the city will be awarded the grant, Commissioner Don Austin said during budget talks this spring.
Only employees and their guests who are at the RenCen "for business reasons" will be allowed to stay after 3 p.m., a spokeswoman said. "If you’re asking me if people can just pack up the station wagon and watch fireworks from the Renaissance Center, the answer is no," she said.
Three years in the making, “Mighty Death Pop” will be released during ICP’s 13th Gathering of the Juggalos fan festival in rural Illinois. It also arrives as J and Shaggy sense a growing mainstream respect that long eluded the group.
Michigan continues to move forward with its top-to-bottom overhaul of its child welfare system four years after it settled a lawsuit that accused the state of running a “depleted and overburdened” system that threatened children’s lives.
Detroit fire crews spent the overnight hours fighting about a dozen blazes on the east side including one that injured a firefighter.
The bright lights and big booms will start out slowly when the first rockets are launched at 10:06 tonight for the 54th annual Target Fireworks above the Detroit River. That's on purpose -- the opening will be choreographed to the music of a famous Broadway song that organizers are keeping secret. But the show will end with a bang.
The 54th annual Target Fireworks show blasted off above the Detroit River tonight. We asked readers to share photos from the show using the hashtag #detroitfireworks on Twitter and Instagram.
Bing explains why he's laying off 164 firefighters -- with hopes of restoring 108 of those positions.
Map: Navigating downtown for the Detroit Fireworks
Fans flocked to social media outlets to show love for festival.
"Is that a cruise ship?" a man who appeared puzzled asked, pausing on the Detroit RiverWalk on Saturday. Indeed, it was. The MV Yorktown -- crisply blue, white and gleaming -- docked at Port Detroit on Saturday, surrounded by River Days festivities.
Blue skies and a nice breeze Saturday ushered in Day 2 of the three-day Detroit River Days Festival, held annually on the scenic waterfront. Friends and families enjoyed rides, games, shows and demonstrations, including professional sand castle making and jet-ski stunts.
Detroit’s riverfront, a series of plazas, pavilions and green space running from the Ambassador Bridge to just east of the MacArthur Bridge to Belle Isle, is home to major city events and connected by the RiverWalk, which now runs about 2.5 to 3 miles long.
A livid Detroit Mayor Dave Bing said he will bring in his own lawyers to handle his office's legal affairs and no longer will use the city's Law Department after his attempt to have the city's top lawyer removed degenerated into what he called a sideshow Friday at a City Council meeting.
Attorney David Griem, who represents the husband of a slain Grosse Pointe Park woman, said his office made a mistake in sending a subpoena seeking employment records for Joseph Gentz, the only person charged in the murder. But after a hearing before Wayne County Circuit Judge Timothy Kenny on Friday, Griem said he was trying to preserve evidence.
Bobby Ferguson's bid-rigging trial is hobbling along with just 11 jurors now, not the usual 12. The latest snafu in the case: one juror's vacation plans.
A federal appeals court on Friday reversed a lower court's ruling that had dismissed a former federal prosecutor's whistle-blower case against the U.S. Department of Justice for allegedly leaking harmful information to a Free Press reporter.
Blue skies and a nice breeze today ushered in day two of the three-day River Days festival, held annually on Detroit’s scenic waterfront.
Several people addressed the City Council on Friday during a special meeting, all of whom voiced support of Corporation Counsel Krystal Crittendon. "This mayor wants to fire one of the only people who has the character to perform her job in exemplary fashion and do so independently. Where are the resignations of the individuals who have run the city into the ground? ...
"It is always unfortunate when we allow a small group of individuals with alternative agendas to present themselves as representative of honest public opinion. I think our council and its leadership must be more responsible and respectful to the office of the mayor and to the citizens of Detroit. They have turned this into a sideshow, and I will not participate.
Key dates in the showdown between Detroit's corporation counsel, Krystal Crittendon, and Mayor Dave Bing.
The federal Transportation Department on Friday officially revealed its $10-million award to improve the bike and pedestrian connections between downtown Detroit and the RiverWalk, Eastern Market, Midtown and Hamtramck.
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing was set to come back before the council later this afternoon; it wasn't clear exactly when.
A convicted killer remains free on bond following a bizarre series of events in federal court Thursday, including his surprise arrest and quick release. The convict, Dwayne Ballinger, had convinced a federal judge to let him remain free on bond but was arrested immediately and placed in handcuffs when he left the courtroom. He was held for only 15 minutes.
Detroit's top attorney probably will keep her job despite Mayor Dave Bing's expected urging of the City Council this afternoon to fire her over her legal challenge to the consent agreement. But the issue of just how much power Detroit's highest city lawyer should have isn't likely to go away because Bing may not get his way.
As some Detroit elected officials look for ways to get the state out of the city's financial business, a new poll shows that not all Detroiters agree with them.
U.S. District Judge David Lawson just announced the Bobby Ferguson jury likely will be sent home today and begin deliberating again Tuesday morning, but with one fewer member.
The party, only accessible by boat on Gull Island, is known for wild drinking and exposed flesh. Officers with 10 law enforcement agencies are on hand to monitor the celebration.
A meeting Bing called to attempt to convince the City Council to fire Crittendon, the city's top attorney, became heated when city residents packed in to speak in support of Crittendon.
Jurors headed home this evening without rendering a verdict in the nearly $12-million bid-rigging case against Bobby Ferguson, a longtime friend to ex-Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
The remains of Wax, who was killed in an early Korean War battle, were not identified until November 2011.
A convicted killer remains free on bond following a bizarre series of events in federal court today, including his surprise arrest and quick release.
After massing in Hart Plaza, After massing in Hart Plaza, skaters embarked on a five-mile ride throughout the city, the route of which was not made public before the event.
Kerfoot Lewis delighted in feeding the masses. And whether the restaurateur was serving up a slab of his famous home-style ribs to paying customers or using his culinary skills to help raise money for a worthy cause, he always made certain that everyone went home full and happy.
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