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Kwame M. Kilpatrick, who resigned as mayor of Detroit and pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in 2008, was sentenced on Tuesday to as many as five years in prison for violating his probation. The sentence was harsher than expected, and elicited loud gasps in the courtroom.

Hunt for Detroit murder suspect turns to tragedy as officer's gun accidentally goes off, killing 7-year-old girl.

A well-respected veteran Detroit, Michigan, police officer was gunned down early Monday, the first time in about five years a city officer has been killed in the line of duty, the city police chief said.

Students were evacuated from a school in Detroit Wednesday morning after a student detonated a homemade explosive in the building, MyFoxDetroit.com reported. There was no fire at Phoenix Multi-Cultural Academy, but smoke did fill the air ...

President Obama said a "mix of human and systemic human failure" allowed a terror suspect to board an airliner in the botched Christmas Day bombing attempt.

Police are trying to find a motive today behind a shooting on the city's east side Monday night that killed three people and wounded one. According to Detroit Police 2nd Deputy Chief John Roach, the incident occurred at about 9 pm at home in ...

There is no initial evidence that the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a U.S. passenger jet was involved in a larger plot, a senior U.S. official said on Sunday.

Race officials say three men died of what is believed to be cardiac arrest during a marathon in Detroit.

At least one tanker truck crashed Wednesday on Interstate 75 just north of Detroit, Michigan, sending billowing flames and clouds of smoke into the air and causing an overpass to collapse.

Gunmen in a green minivan opened fire on a group of teenagers waiting at a bus stop near a Detroit school on Tuesday, wounding ...