Detroit to get $22.5 million grant; saves 100 firefighter jobs
theGRIO REPORT - Detroit will receive a $22.5 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security's Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response...
Detroit mayor may lay off 164 firefighters
theGRIO REPORT - Detroit Mayor Dave Bing announced today that the city plans to lay off 164 firefighters by the end of July...
Detroit City Council president bullies intern on Twitter
theGRIO REPORT - Detroit City Council President Charles Pugh has come under fire in recent days for his YouTube video boasting of his weight loss success while the city has been teetering on the verge of insolvency...
Detroit judge: I'll keep Rosa Parks case
DETROIT (AP) - A judge accused of misconduct in a dispute over the estate of Rosa Parks says he won't step aside from the case...
Redistricting may keep blacks from representing Detroit
theGRIO REPORT - Of the many issues presented by Detroit’s plummeting population is that it has not only altered the cultural makeup of the city and affected the tax base; it has also led to a complete redrawing for electoral maps around the area...
Detroit mayor Dave Bing frustrated over delays
DETROIT (AP) - Detroit Mayor Dave Bing lashed out Thursday against 'people with personal agendas' he blames for stalling his efforts to pull the city from the brink of financial collapse...
Detroit may send no black representatives to Congress
Detroit's population loss is beginning to effect it's national representation, for the first time in 57-years the city may not send a black representative to Congress.
Marvin Winans' alleged attackers could go on trial
DETROIT - A judge will decide Tuesday if the case against three men charged with robbing and carjacking the Rev. Marvin Winans will go to trial...
Detroit may go broke by June 15
theGRIO REPORT - The city of Detroit will run out of money by June 15 if a lawsuit challenging the validity of the consent agreement the city signed with the state of Michigan in April is not withdrawn...
Two shot in Detroit over Kool-Aid
Two men in the Brightmoor neighborhood of Detroit got so passionate about their own mixes of Kool-Aid that they began arguing about who could make the drink better...
