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Detroit plans to cut 1,000 jobs by early next year to help deal with the city's budget crisis and avoid the possibility of a state-appointed emergency financial manager, Mayor Dave Bing announced Friday.
Kurt Ziebart, inventor of the Ziebart rust-proofing process, has died at age 91.
Michigan Congressman Thaddeus McCotter has officially announced he will seek the Republican Party's nomination for president.
It took Air Force Col. James E. Dennany's family years to finally accept he would not be coming home alive from the Vietnam War, his 49-year-old son says.
Michigan's entire congressional delegation has told Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano it wants assurances the federal government will pay for security at the trial of a man accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound flight.
A Facebook feud between two women who claimed to love the same prison inmate led to a high-speed chase and a crash that critically injured one of the rivals, killed her friend and left the second rival facing murder charges.
Michigan's unemployment rate remained unchanged at 14.1 percent in March, with little movement since summer 2009 and well above the U.S. rate of 9.7 percent, the state announced Wednesday.
Michigan is hot, dry and windy, triggering a "red flag" wildfire alert from the National Weather Service and a halt to outdoor burning permits across much of the state.
Payday loan companies can no longer charge borrowers triple damages plus $250 if their checks bounce, the Michigan Court of Appeals said Friday, overturning a lower court that ruled in favor of a lenders group.
The National Science Foundation has awarded $25 million to Michigan State University to create a center for the joint study of natural and digital evolution, officials said Wednesday.
A New York-based charity that promotes Hebrew language charter schools is suing the estate of the late Detroit Pistons owner Bill Davidson, saying it owes $4.8 million of $5 million Davidson pledged to the charity.
Armed officers on Sunday rushed aboard the same Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight that was attacked on Christmas Day, but the perceived threat wasn't much of a danger — just an ill traveler who spent too much time in the bathroom.
A decade-long decline in teens' use of pot has stalled and some teen attitudes on how harmful marijuana can be may be softening, according to a federal survey on teen drug use released Monday.
A 15-year-old Michigan boy admitted raping a 3-year-old girl, so enraging his father that the man couldn't control himself when witnesses say he forced the teen to strip, marched him to an empty lot and shot him through the head, a defense lawyer said Tuesday.
The owner of the Canadian company that's buying the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan says he wants to bring football, baseball and other sports to the 80,300-seat venue.
The Detroit Public Schools will seek a court order forcing a school board member to testify about his role in a $1.5 billion construction bond issue, the district's emergency financial manager said Thursday.
Ohio voters have given their blessing to the opening of casinos in Toledo and three other cities, and that has Michigan officials and gambling interests paying close attention.
Detroit's $22 million ferry and Great Lakes cruise-ship terminal will help revitalize the area economy and is another fruit of the federal economic stimulus program, U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Monday.
A global team of researchers has mapped the genetic code of the world's most popular vegetable — the potato.
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said Friday it's vital he and new Justice Sonia Sotomayor get along well because they could spend the next quarter century working together in close quarters.
The bloom could be off Michigan's $124 million per year blueberry industry after two destructive viruses infected bushes in three locations.
A 12-year-old Detroit boy accused of shooting a 24-year-old woman to death during a street robbery could face an adult murder sentence of life in prison without parole if he's convicted, authorities said Wednesday.
General Motors Co. chief Fritz Henderson says a new $43 million plant in Michigan will assemble battery packs for the company's upcoming rechargeable electric car, as the automaker continues relying on suppliers for key elements of the batteries.
Audits of Detroit schools are finding widespread waste in the deficit-ridden district.
A cane equipped with the technology that retailers use to tag merchandise could help blind people avoid obstacles.
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