Detroit on Monday wrapped up its historic bankruptcy case, which began with contentious opposition from creditors and ended with eleventh-hour deals enabling the city to shed $7 billion of its $18 billion of debt and obligations.
Detroit should be able to access capital markets and borrow at a rate of around 5 percent after it exits bankruptcy, as long as its tax revenue remains stable, a city consultant said on Tuesday.
A Detroit-area teacher says she was fired from her post at a private Catholic all-girls high school after she and her lesbian partner announced they were expecting a child through non-traditional means.
U.S. fast-food workers staged protests in some 150 cities on Thursday in a fight for higher pay, and organizers said more than 450 were arrested from Manhattan's Times Square to Los Angeles.
A tearful judge on Wednesday sent a white Michigan man to prison for at least 17 years for fatally shooting an unarmed black teenager on his front porch in a racially charged case that sparked protests in the Detroit area.
The city of Detroit and its creditors had been given extensions to deadlines needed to file the former's debt-adjustment plan and the latter's subsequent legal motions by presiding US Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes.
The city of Detroit has filed the largest-ever municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history on Thursday, setting the stage for a costly court battle with creditors.
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was convicted on a host of federal corruption charges - guilty of 24 criminal counts, including racketeering, extortion and bribery.
