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7-year-old girl killed in Detroit police raid

Police in Detroit, Michigan, on Sunday expressed "profound sorrow" at the fatal shooting of a 7-year-old girl in a police raid. Aiyana Jones was shot and killed by police executing a search warrant as part of a homicide investigation, Assistant Chief Ralph Godbee said in a statement.

Detroit city employees banned from wearing scented products

Detroit city is planning to ban its employees from wearing scented products as part of a settlement in a federal lawsuit filed by a city planner in 2008 and settled last month.

Judge orders ex-Detroit mayor Kilpatrick to pay $319000

M.L. Elrick and Jim Schaefer USA Today 01/21/2010
Protests to Begin in Detroit Over Property Taxes

Detroit residents are protesting the amount of their property taxes for a viable reason. The taxman is charging homeowners exorbitant property taxes on homes that aren't worth the tax percentage being demanded. The same scenario is seen with underwater mortgages right now, people are trying to make money off of property that is no longer valuable.

Judge orders ex-Detroit mayor Kilpatrick to pay $319000

DETROIT — A judge branded former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick a liar Wednesday, ordering him to cough up $319,000 within three months toward the $1 million in restitution.

Deadly blaze destroys Detroit hotel, kills 2

ZLATI MEYER Detroit Free Press 01/01/2010
Detroit Bomb Suspect: No coat, no luggage; Congress plans hearings on how he got through

WASHINGTON — The suspected would-be Christmas Day bomber boarded his flight to frigid Detroit, Michigan, without a coat, perhaps the final warning sign that went unnoticed leading to what could have been a catastrophic terror attack.

Deadly blaze destroys Detroit hotel, kills 2

A three-alarm fire Thursday night in Detroit's Cass Corridor left at least two people dead and three injured, according to the Detroit Fire Department. The fire consumed the Huntington Hotel, a five-story building on Alexandrine, just west of Woodward.

Sick Nigerian Prompts Second Security Alert in Detroit

MICHELINE MAYNARD The New York Times 12/28/2009
Sick Nigerian Prompts Second Security Alert in Detroit

DETROIT — A Nigerian man who became ill on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit — the same flight involved in Friday’s terrorism attempt — triggered a security alert at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after the pilots requested emergency assistance upon landing, the Department of Homeland Security announced on Sunday.

U.S. says al Qaeda-linked man tries to blow up plane

DETROIT/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Nigerian man believed to be linked to al Qaeda militants was in custody on Saturday after he tried to ignite an explosive device on a U.S. passenger plane as it approached Detroit, U.S. officials said.

Detroit house auction flops for urban wasteland

Kevin Krolicki Reuters 10/25/2009
Feds: Leader of radical Islam group killed in raid

DETROIT — A leader of a radical U.S. Sunni Islam group killed in a shootout with federal agents near Detroit repeatedly told followers that the government was the enemy and they must be willing to take on the FBI — even if it meant death, authorities said.

Detroit house auction flops for urban wasteland

DETROIT (Reuters) - In a crowded ballroom next to a bankrupt casino, what remains of the Detroit property market was being picked over by speculators and mostly discarded.


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