bankruptcy

Detroit filed for Chapter 9 federal bankruptcy protection yesterday.The federal courts have never seen a municipal bankruptcy filing of this size, so…

Detroit's bankruptcy filing has raised a lot of questions, especially for people who live in the city. It's unlikely the day-to-day lives of Detroiters…

What will bankruptcy mean for Detroit?There are certainly a lot of unknowns as the city navigates through the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in U.S.…

Hearing date set for challenge to gay marriage ban"A federal judge has set an October 1 hearing date for a challenge to Michigan’s ban on gay marriage and…

Detroit’s emergency manager has canceled a planned bus tour for city bondholders today.The bus tour was meant to hammer home that Detroit is in dire shape…

During the last year of World War II, as millions died in history’s most sustained orgy of violence, other men quietly and secretly planned what to do…

Federal judge will hear challenge to gay marriage banA federal judge is allowing a legal challenge to Michigan adoption laws and its ban on same-sex…

It's Thursday, which means it’s time for our weekly check-in with Detroit News Business Columnist Daniel Howes.As the story of Detroit's possible---and…

It'll be 50 years ago in August when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his now iconic "I have a Dream Speech." But King gave an earlier version of that speech…

We didn’t have an early spring this year, but it looks like an early summer. I say that because while it is still technically spring, the authorities are…