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Detroit City Council President Charles Pugh hosted the meeting with WDET-FM (101.9) radio talk-show host Craig Fahle, who has held a series of "Call for Action" shows on how people in the region can help to transform Detroit.

Finally, it looks like winter is going to look like winter.

Republican candidates for president had a spirited debate tonight over the government rescue of General Motors and Chrysler, with all four opposing it.

Privately hired defense investigators have swung their focus away from Joseph Gentz and on to a new suspect in last month's strangulation murder of Jane Bashara, her husband's lawyer David Griem said today.

An 17-year-old escapee who investigators said was part of a gang involved in 63 home invasions was recaptured Wednesday in northwest Detroit.

Her plea came despite earlier concerns raised by her attorney about the interrogation that led to her confession of killing DeAngelo Tobia in a bathtub in January 2010 in Clinton Township.

The 60-second radio spot says Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, has "stood up time and again for the rights of women and unborn children" and notes that he signed the group's pro-life pledge.

An ex-Detroit City Council aide caught on video taking a wad of cash from a contractor got a break on his punishment.

It was a call out of all criminals who prey on children and the elderly, and a call to action for Detroit men: Do your part to make the city safer.

Two Wayne County commissioners have called for County Executive Robert Ficano to resign. Should the rest of them do the same?

With his right thumb, the Rev. Steven Kelly smudged ashes in the shape of a cross on the foreheads of worshipers knelt before a wooden table in St. John's Episcopal Church in Detroit.

An inmate who fled from a Wayne County Sheriff's Office transport van last week was caught this afternoon, the Wayne County Sheriff's Office said.

Two Detroit mothers held hands today, pleading for information on who shot their children execution-style on the city's west side in January.

A week of personal appearances, newspaper op-eds, robocalls and television ads has brought Mitt Romney back within striking distance of national frontrunner Rick Santorum in Michigan's Republican presidential primary, but with six days to go Santorum's upstart campaign remains on the verge of what could be a defining victory in Romney's birth state, a Detroit Free Press/WXYZ-TV poll shows. | Poll graphic: Who would you vote for in Republican primary?

The Macomb County Sheriff's Office is investigating a possible murder for hire plot that appears to have started in the county jail.

A Highland Park School Board member fighting a state takeover of the struggling district is trying to stop an afternoon public meeting about the district's finances after Gov. Snyder indicated the district could be shuttered as early as Friday.

The measure was passed Wednesday by a 26-12 vote along party lines. The legislation advances to the Republican-led House.

In a written ruling issued today, Judge Mary Chrzanowski dismissed arguments from defense attorney Carl Marlinga that there was insufficient evidence to convict his client, Michael George, who is serving a life sentence without parole.

The department projected more than 11,000 Michigan families would lose their cash assistance late last year after the state set a new four-year cap on receiving the benefits. Officials previously used a five-year federal limit, but said some families had received benefits for 10 years or longer, due to exceptions.

He'll do a four-city tour of the state to support U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra, a former congressman and Holland Republican, starting in Grand Rapids at 9 a.m. and ending up at the Polish Cultural Center, 2975 East Maple Road in Troy at 7 p.m.