The Lions are facing their own Curtis Granderson moment. If it wasn't apparent before, it should be clear now after the Bailout in Baltimore. The Lions are looking at 2012 -- at the earliest -- before they're relevant.

As our story continues, help arrives for GM and Chrysler in Washington. But in Michigan, officials see the industry's problems starting to weigh on the state as a whole.

Lewis Smith's family helped build Michigan's bedrock industry. At the end of his automotive career, Smith was helping to dismantle it. He didn't like that work, so he got out and is building a new future with giant green screens.

Kwame Kilpatrick violated Michigan campaign-finance law if he used money from his mayoral campaign fund to pay lawyers who defended him against assault charges.

A lawyer for Detroit Receiving Hospital is challenging a subpoena filed by an attorney for the family of slain exotic dancer Tamara Greene seeking any possible records of her treatment there.

General Motors' presence in Detroit will shrink even more, but it won't lose its state tax credit for keeping its corporate headquarters in the Renaissance Center with a smaller workforce.

In the three days since Detroit Public Schools CEO Robert Bobb appealed for volunteers to help boost the reading skills of DPS students, nearly 900 would-be tutors from every corner of southeast Michigan have responded. So much for the cynical

The recession-themed comedy-drama "Up in the Air" led Tuesday's Golden Globe nominations with six nods, including for best dramatic picture.

The Obama administration released a seven-point plan to boost U.S. manufacturing today, ahead of a meeting with business leaders hosted by Vice President Joe Biden aimed at boosting jobs in a sector that employs fewer Americans now than it did

COPENHAGEN -- While hundreds of thousands of people were out marching against climate change this past weekend, world leaders inside the Bella Center slyly removed the most important number in the world from climate negotiating texts — one that more

Press operator and mechanic Darrell Hough, 46, will weigh in at 413 pounds when the ninth season kicks off Jan. 5. Andrea Hough, 24, an executive assistant, will work to shed some of her 298 pounds as 11 teams of

Michigan health officials determined Tuesday that the state received about 17,200 doses of 800,000 H1N1 vaccine doses that were voluntarily recalled by the manufacturer.

Ed Whitacre called the U.S. government's pay restrictions on what GM can pay top executives "pretty stringent."

UAW's leaders are expected to pick UAW vice president Bob King as their nominee today to lead the union over the next four years after Ron Gettelfinger retires next summer.

One of the nation's largest credit rating agencies, TransUnion, predicts that the rate of auto loan delinquencies nationwide will grow 7% in 2010 — including a sharp 27% increase in Michigan.

The Lions stand at the low point of their season with three games left and coming off their most lopsided loss in 18 years. While coach Jim Schwartz said he will hold players accountable for Sunday's 48-3 loss at Baltimore,

HOUSTON -- When Will Bynum returns to the lineup, he will be wearing new basketball sneakers. It's not like he's seeking a new look. He's just following the advice of Pistons strength and conditioning coach Arnie Kander, who called current

GM begins the process of paying back its $6.7 billion loan.

Forget writing letters or thank-you notes in a nice, smooth cursive hand. Students today are far more likely to use computers, cell phones, text messages, Twitter and iPods to communicate than they are to put pen to paper.

In this time of economic uncertainty and war and cold, what so many more people seem to want for this year's holidays can't be bought at big box stores or malls or even small shops in quaint downtowns.