Detroit, a crumbling metropolitan area with America's highest concentration of ruin porn and indignant local journalists, can add another notch to its Bedpost of Horrors: its infant mortality rate is disgraceful.
Police say a Detroit man who accidentally hit a 10-year-old pedestrian was attacked by a crowd of people when he got out of his pickup truck to see if the child was alright. The child is expected to recover from his injuries, but the driver is now in critical condition.
"Imagine Detroit as a new municipality about to build a museum stocked and operated at taxpayer expense." Robert Frank explains rationally why Detroit should sell off its expensive fine art. (There are plenty of local artists they can put in that museum.)
Piles of garbage, city services that don't work, inept local government, horrible financial mismanagement, exploitation by big banks, and now a looming bankruptcy: Naples is the Detroit of Italy. (They both have nice art museums, too!)
Detroit is in trouble. It's bankrupt. It's practically begging people to live there. It almost sold off its fine art. Detroit needs a hero. Or a metallic reproduction of a fictional hero, as big as Michelangelo's David, connected to an upcoming movie reboot. I mean, it can't hurt, right?
Some people thought that Detroit, a city that is bankrupt, might have to sell off the valuable art in its art museum in order to help pay its debts. Detroit will not have to do this after all.
George Cushingberry Jr. is probably flying high today, and not just because of the Bubba Kush he brought home from the strip club. The recently elected Detroit City Council president pro tem got off with just a ticket after taking the cops for a ride with pot and open liquor in his car.
A Detroit-area woman who was allegedly trying to "protect" her dog from a stray cat went about it in the worst possible way — by kicking snow in its face.
Matt Taibbi's new street-level study on the crumbling of America is a shocking, important read. It focuses on Camden, New Jersey, which has all the crime problems of Detroit and none of the fancy expensive art to sell.
Detroit is bankrupt. The once-great city languishes deep in debt, unable to provide basic city services, as it debates cutting pensions and selling off the city's art collection. What's the right move? We, the writers of Gawker, have very strong opinions.
The Detroit Pistons’ Dancing Usher has already made something of a name for himself, showing up "randomly" during Dance Cam montages.
A general assignment reporter for Detroit's Local 4 News was having trouble getting her earpiece (IFB) to work during this morning's newscast, so she attempted to fix the problem by angrily shouting "I can't get this fucking in there" with a live news camera rolling beside her.
According to the autopsy, Renisha McBride, the 19-year-old killed while seeking help after a car crash in suburban Detroit, did in fact die of a gunshot wound to her face. The shooter still claims he "accidentally" discharged his shotgun because he thought someone was breaking into his home.
Less than two months after Charlotte police shot and killed an unarmed man who was trying to find help after having a car accident, a woman is dead in Michigan under similar circumstances, shot in the head while reportedly searching for assistance late Friday night.
Former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been sentenced to 28 years (!) in prison for racketeering and conspiracy committed during his term as mayor. Yowza.
"Detroit," the name of an area of ruins that was a vast manufacturing center in ancient times, is having a tough run. It's lost a million residents. It's gone bankrupt. But one thing Detroit can still be proud of: its roaming packs of wild dogs.
An EMS technician performing CPR on a man suffering from a heart attack refused to let a tiny thing like having a heart attack of his own stop him from saving his patient's life.
Local TV news has produced many of the classics in the "out of touch news reports about the internet" genre. (Remember Pedobear Panic?) Fox 2 Detroit's hysterical exposé of internet troll "Ebayisajoke" is another amazing specimen:
Detroit police are looking for a killer who left a woman dead and on fire in her home last weekend on the city's west side. The woman, who was dead when police found her, is the third victim to be found beaten and burned in Detroit since July 26. Authorities are now trying to figure out if they've got a serial…
A couple weeks after a state-appointed emergency manager filed a bankruptcy claim on behalf of Detroit, the world-famous Christie's auction house has been called in to begin appraising some of the Detroit Institute of Arts' permanent collection. But lest you should assume this is the sign of vultures coming in to pick…
