In a U.S. neighborhood served by 26 liquor stores but only one grocery, a community group is peddling fresh fruits and vegetables like ice cream.

DETROIT, Aug. 11 (UPI) — Detroit Mayor Dave Bing warned union workers the city is going broke and layoffs or pay cuts are the only way out of the fiscal crisis.

More than 200 family and friends of Slum Village rapper Titus (Baatin) Glover were gathered for his funeral early this afternoon at Greater Future Missionary Baptist Church on Detroit's east side.

The powerhouse Canadian rock act returns for its second round of metro Detroit dates in '09, this time accompanied by Hinder, Papa Roach and Saving Abel.

BOSTON — Nick Green hit a go-ahead sacrifice fly and one of Boston's three homers as the Red Sox ended their three-game power outage and six-game losing streak with a 6-5 win over the Detroit Tigers on Monday night.

After a season of waiting, the Tigers' offense is starting to emerge. For the third time in four games, they scored at least seven runs — Sunday was an 8-7 win over the Twins, taking two of the three-game series — and seemed to find a groove.

DETROIT, Aug. 9 (UPI) — Miguel Cabrera and Marcus Thames homered Sunday, boosting Detroit to an 8-7 win over Minnesota.

The University of Detroit Mercy says it's received a $552,000 contract to perform cyber security research on behalf of the U.S. government.

Almost every time the Tigers have done well against a right-handed starter this season, that right-hander has had limited big-league experience. It doesn't appear to matter how often the Tigers face the same veteran right-hander — they're hardly a sure thing to figure him out.

The spring selling season cleared out much of the distressed housing inventory that had glutted older metro Detroit suburbs.