By Lisa Brody Diane Orley, now living in Birmingham, was woken up before dawn on August 26, 2013, by two police officers at her...

By Stacy Gittleman Earl Butz, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture in 1973, told America’s farmers to “get big or get out,” ushering in decades...

While the United States Constitution mandates a separation of church and state, America remains a country founded on religious ideals.

Displayed on license plates and travel websites, perhaps the most emblematic symbol of Michigan’s connection to the Great Lakes…

When many people hear the words “psychedelics” or “hallucinogenic drugs,” they think of the 1960s, of LSD and Timothy Leary, who coined the

One of the many indelible images over the past year is that of cars filling parking lots, drivers waiting in hours-long lines to pick up

Starting as early as 1859, long-gone prospectors drilled wells for oil and gas in Michigan, looking to cash in to fuel the American Industri

In a wide ranging interview, Downtown news editor Lisa Brody spoke to the two leading health experts in Oakland County, health officer Leigh

Zero. That is the only acceptably safe level of lead in parts per billion (ppb) that should exist in our drinking water. Yet, the federal...

For the classic board game of Monopoly, players can end up in “jail” by landing on the jail site or if they are unable to pay the fine...