Michigan Supreme Court Says Medical Weed Users Can Toke Up Then Drive

It's illegal to drive while high on marijuana in Michigan. It's legal to smoke medical marijuana in Michigan. These two laws were bound to come in conflict with each other. They have, and now the Michigan Supreme Court has ruled driving after smoking pot is ok, but only for medical marijuana users. Far out man.

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Detroit's Underfunded Pensions Foot $22K Tab For Trustees' Vacation

Detroit's public pension funds are said to be whack — more than $600 million underfunded whack — yet four trustees of two funds spent this weekend in Hawaii, all expenses covered.

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Detroit's New Police Chief Is A Toyota-Hating, GTO-Driving Badass

This week, the city of Detroit appointed its fifth police chief in five years, Jesus Christ. James Craig, the former chief of the Cincinnati Police Department, reports for duty under emergency manager Kevyn Orr.

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Detroit Man Stabbed Inside Gas Station As Customers Stand By And Watch

A Detroit man in his 60s was stabbed inside a gas station on the city's northwest side Saturday morning while a couple of customers stood and watched nearby. One of the customers is shown in the surveillance footage asking for his change as the scuffle unfolds.

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Ryan Gosling Not Running For Detroit Mayor

Despite "falling in love" with Detroit while filming a movie here, Ryan Gosling is not running for mayor of our troubled city, thus meaning residents will have to endure another four years of decidedly un-handsome leadership.

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Giant RoboCop Statue Rises Just As Detroit Falls Into Financial Abyss

RoboCop rises just as the city of Detroit plummets further into a nightmarish financial abyss, just in time to protect a handful of residents from the fiscal shitstorm on the horizon. The future is here and it's in many ways as bad as what science fiction predicted.

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Local News Very Obviously Looking For Its Own Charles Ramsey

There's national watercooler talk about Cleveland hero Charles Ramsey, his spirited interviews and whether subjects like him, Sweet Brown and Antoine Dodson are just being exploited by reporters and meme-makers. Detroit's Fox 2 wants in on that action, apparently.

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Radioactive Water Spilled Into Lake Michigan By Nuclear Plant

The Associated Press reported Monday that a nuclear power plant on the western edge of the state had a "very slightly radioactive water" spill over the weekend, which should probably be alarming, but, in fact, is no big deal.

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Watch A Rally Car Drift Atop Detroit Parking Garage For X Games Bid

One month after releasing a trailer teasing Andreas Eriksson drifting a Ford Fiesta ST rally car atop a downtown Detroit parking garage, here, finally, is the official bid video by The Work to bring the X Games to Detroit. Was it worth the wait? Hell yes.

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