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DETROIT (AP) — Thousands of Detroit streetlights are dark. Many more residents have fled. Donors are replacing ambulances that limped around for 200,000 miles. Millions in debt payments have been skipped. Is there really any doubt the city is broke? A judge starts exploring that question Wednesday in an unusual trial to determine whether Detroit […]

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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder testified behind closed doors Wednesday about his role taking Detroit into bankruptcy, a rare interview with lawyers for creditors who pressed him about retiree pensions and asked if the city could have done more to avoid the historic filing. Snyder waived executive privilege and gave a three-hour […]

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DETROIT (AP) — A judge told a courtroom packed with lawyers Tuesday that deals between Detroit and its creditors would be better than years of “horrendous” litigation in the largest public bankruptcy in U.S. history. Eastern Michigan’s chief federal judge, Gerald Rosen, opened the first formal round of mediation by giving a pep talk and […]

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DETROIT (AP) — Mike Duggan accomplished something in Detroit’s mayoral primary that may never have been done before: He won as a write-in. By early Wednesday morning, with most of the city’s 614 precincts reporting, Duggan and popular Wayne County Sheriff Benny Napoleon had clear leads over the rest of the field in the race […]

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DETROIT (AP) — More than a dozen candidates were running in Tuesday’s primary for Detroit mayor, an office with little immediate power because most operations are being run by an emergency manager seeking to take the city into bankruptcy. None of the candidates has name recognition outside the city like current Mayor Dave Bing, a […]

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DETROIT (AP) — A federal judge agreed with Detroit on Wednesday and stopped any lawsuits challenging the city’s bankruptcy, declaring his courtroom the exclusive venue for legal action in the largest filing by a local government in U.S. history. The decision by U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes was a major victory for Detroit, especially after […]

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DETROIT (AP) — Aretha Franklin says Detroit’s future is bright. The Detroit native, known as the “Queen of Soul,” is reacting to her city’s bankruptcy. In a statement, Franklin says Detroit may be “bankrupt monetarily but we are well-funded in spirit and what it takes to come back.” Franklin says Detroit is a winner. She […]