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Students in Warren Consolidated Schools are generating electricity with a class project.  The wind spire stands in the center of a courtyard at Butcher Educational Center. It has the potential to power two classrooms solely from an average yearly wind of twelve miles-per-hour.  

Imagine having to explain to parents why freshman sports are being canceled at their child's high school. It's a varsity sized headache and heartache for the superintendent of East Detroit Public Schools.

Former General Motors Corp. Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner will retire Aug. 1 with a pension and benefit package the automaker valued at more than $10 million.

The Detroit School Board is considering taking legal action against the district's state appointed emergency financial manager. It's a turf war that is sure to get ugly.

Detroit Police are patrolling the neighborhoods and handing out sketches of a suspected serial rapist. The man accused of sexually assaulting four women and nearly hurting a fifth is still out there.

It was an emotional day for family and friends of the five young people killed in the car-train crash in Canton Township. Two of those young victims were laid to rest on Tuesday.

Autopsy results indicate five-year-old Nevaeh Buchanan may have been buried alive along the banks of the River Raisin.

A woman has died after her car collided with a truck carrying Coca-Cola in the Detroit suburb of Plymouth Township.

State police say a box containing Nitric acid fell off a truck and began leaking, closing one lane of a western Michigan highway while crews cleaned up the spill.

Former U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg wants his old job back.

Detroiters have a new place to catch a ride. The city's brand new Rosa Parks Transportation Center is now open for business.

The Coleman A Young Municipal Center is back open for business Tuesday after a water-main break.

It's another free popcorn Tuesday at the movies.

Two Detroit Police officers are hurt after a driver hit their cruiser early Tuesday morning. Investigators say the suspect ignored a red light at the intersection of Tireman and Livernois on the city's west side.  

The Michigan Attorney Discipline Board has opened the first of many hearings against five attorneys who were involved in a text-message scandal that forced a Detroit mayor out of office.

A metro Detroit woman is dead and her husband is behind bars. Police found the woman's body in the couple's garage in Milan. That's about 50 miles southwest of Detroit. They say her husband has confessed to murdering her.

A woman claims the man who tried to attack her looks just like the sketch of a suspected serial rapist recently released by police. She is the fifth woman to come forward and says the man is getting more aggressive.

Police are searching for a hit and run driver who killed a 13-year-old boy. His family can't believe that anyone could be heartless enough to leave a child dying in the street. Now, surveillance video could lead to that driver.

Plant closings, lay-offs and the state's battered economy have more and more families turning to food banks.