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Byline: Tamara Audi OSCODA, Mich. _ After midnight on an unusually muggy April night, a small-town cop opened his eyes in the dark and blinked up at the ceiling from […]

Byline: M.L. Elrick, Suzette Hackney and Tamara Audi DETROIT _ The goal is laudable, but daunting: transform the beleaguered Detroit Police Department into a model for the nation within five […]

Byline: Tamara Audi, Suzette Hackney and David Ashenfelter DETROIT _ While there was no clear winner or loser in the nation's first terrorism trial related to Sept. 11, experts agree […]

Byline: Tamara Audi DETROIT _ Taking photos outside the Fermi 2 nuclear power plant near Monroe, Mich., will get you a question or two from private security there. Spending too […]

Byline: Tamara Audi DETROIT _ New teams of federal agents with orders to hunt and expel some illegal immigrants are producing large numbers of deportations, according to federal officials, government […]

Byline: Tamara Audi DETROIT _ It was a strange place to abandon a dream, but Zulfiqar Ahmed had no choice. This is where it was ending, the American life he […]

Byline: Shawn Windsor and Tamara Audi HOUSTON _ In the 1960s, two little boys who lived on opposite sides of the country, on opposite sides of the racial divide, looked […]

Byline: Shannon McCaffrey and Tamara Audi WASHINGTON _ Five Arab men sought by the FBI who may have slipped into the country illegally could be part of a larger group […]

Byline: Tamara Audi and Jim Schaefer DETROIT _ A system used for decades by immigrants to send money back home became a target of federal antiterrorism investigators Wednesday, as agents […]

DETROIT _ It was a collection of suspicious airport identification badges and a pile of forged immigration documents stashed in a desk drawer that first caught the attention of federal […]

CINCINNATI _ The immigration hearings of an Ann Arbor, Mich., cleric held in the federal terrorism probe must be kept secret because his application for asylum may compromise national security, […]

DETROIT _ Federal agents and teams of nuclear specialists are searching the Midwest for a mysterious shipment of radioactive material that was trucked across the Canadian border into Michigan in […]

DETROIT _ More than 600 immigrants nationwide have been jailed and subject to secret immigration hearings since Sept. 11, according to new Justice Department statistics. The numbers, in a department […]

DETROIT _ In the post-Sept. 11 world, big businesses are going to have to take some of the responsibility for border security, and the public and U.S. government are going […]

DETROIT _ Thousands of trucks carrying goods for automakers and other large corporations would be allowed to avoid U.S. Customs inspections at the Ambassador Bridge under a new program to […]

DETROIT _ The federal government will not punish two Detroit-based Border Patrol agents for speaking publicly about holes in security along the northern border. The Immigration and Naturalization Service, which […]

DETROIT _ The Immigration and Naturalization Service is moving forward with plans to discipline two border patrol agents who spoke publicly after Sept. 11 about security lapses at Michigan's U.S.-Canadian […]

DETROIT _ Item No. 1717131156 was unlike any other on eBay. It's warm and funny, and likes to hug. It is Dannie Baber's mom, Sue Hamilton, and for the right […]

DETROIT _ Lawyers for Michigan men who have not responded to requests for interviews in the terrorism investigation said they will await assurances from authorities before advising their clients to […]

DEARBORN, Mich. _ It's 8:30 a.m. at the Hamad house in Dearborn, and the two little girls who live there are in the kitchen whispering to each other, then bursting […]

DETROIT _ He is a Lebanese chemistry student with wide eyes and cropped dark hair. He hogs the bathroom, his wife says. He talks about chemistry. And he's always trying […]

DETROIT _ Calling it a 'sea change' in security at the northern border with Canada, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft on Monday announced an array of new cooperative initiatives with […]

DETROIT _ Some of the 5,000 men wanted for voluntary questioning in the national terrorism investigation may be jailed without bond if investigators want to scrutinize them further, according to […]

DETROIT _ Although federal terrorism investigators say none are suspects, thousands of Middle Eastern men in the United States will be asked detailed questions _ ranging from whether they sympathize […]

Here are some of the questions the U.S. Justice Department wants asked of 5,000 Middle Eastern men in the United States. Federal officials say none of the men are considered […]

DETROIT _ Although federal terrorism investigators say none are suspects, thousands of Middle Eastern men in the United States will be asked detailed questions _ ranging from whether they sympathize […]

DETROIT _ For the first time in at least two decades, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service is increasing the number of inspectors at Michigan's border crossings with Canada. The […]

DETROIT _ At least 68 young Israeli travelers and students have been detained or deported by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service as a result of the investigation into the […]

DETROIT _ The federal government will pay to nearly double the Michigan National Guard force stationed at the state's three border crossings with Canada, a spokesman for Gov. John Engler […]

DETROIT _ In a last-minute deal announced Wednesday morning, the Department of Defense agreed to continue funding Michigan National Guard members stationed at the state's border crossings with Canada for […]

A strange feeling came over Shereef Akeel as he drove to coach his son's soccer game in Troy, Mich., on Sunday afternoon while listening to radio reports of the U.S. […]

DETROIT _ The Immigration and Naturalization Service has temporarily frozen potentially hundreds of thousands of immigration applications and visa petitions from those living in the United States while it conducts […]

DETROIT _ On the night of June 4, U.S. Border Patrol agents in Detroit captured a Pakistani man trying to sneak into the United States aboard a freight train from […]

DEARBORN, Mich. _ The first prayer rises up at 6 a.m. It comes from a corner of the city that could have been lifted up out of a Lebanese village. […]

DETROIT _ A second day of heightened security at Michigan's Canadian border slowed traffic flow to a slow drip, with some trucks and cars on Wednesday waiting up to 12 […]

DETROIT _ By 2 p.m. Wednesday, the daily debate was under way in the dirt-patched yard on Moran Street. At issue: to open or not to open a sad-looking, worn-out […]

DETROIT _ Sitting in the stands at the Detroit Grand Prix last month, Bryan Wollangur's eyes followed one car as it looped around the Belle Isle track. He didn't care […]

WASHINGTON _ The woman regarded by many as an international symbol of courage, who dared to confront the most powerful drug lord of the modern age, is sitting in the […]

DETROIT _ Consuelo Sanchez-Duran, the Colombian judge who hid out in Detroit for two years from infamous drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, is in Washington to beg the U.S. government to […]

DETROIT _ The first time Lewis Hickson Jr. walked into the Capuchin Soup Kitchen, it was for a free meal. That was nearly 30 years ago, and the future executive […]

It was a scam that took cheating the IRS to a new level. Using an elaborate setup, a three-man ring began stealing identities in 1995 and filed 37 phony tax […]

DETROIT _ Sound asleep in their bunks, boys at Camp Ozanam were awakened by a hooded man. Other men wore horror-movie masks. These were the camp counselors. They pulled a […]

DETROIT _ When an 8-year-old girl was mauled by a rottweiler last week in Dearborn, Mich., she became one of about 1.4 million children injured each year by dog bites […]

DETROIT _ With its green indoor turf, a parking lot that could double as a minivan showroom and a popular soccer clinic for toddlers called Wee Kickers, the Total Soccer […]

DETROIT _ With its green indoor turf, a parking lot that could double as a minivan showroom and a popular soccer clinic for toddlers called Wee Kickers, Total Soccer in […]

DETROIT _ Like other cities around the country, some fire hydrants in front of expansive city mansions, tightly packed near-west-side neighborhoods, public schools and the art museum are sitting in […]

The Ford Explorer, the nation's best-selling sport-utility vehicle, was not significantly more likely to roll over in an accident than other sport-utility vehicles, a Detroit Free Press analysis of more […]

The government's assessment of how likely a vehicle is to roll over is based on static stability factor _ a mathematical formula that divides one-half of a vehicle's width by […]

DETROIT _ An internal Ford Motor Co. memo suggests that the federal agency responsible for monitoring auto safety was concerned about the stability of the Explorer as early as 1992, […]

DETROIT _ In the past, the desperate calls had been about an abandoned lemur from Iowa, homeless harbor seals from Cape Cod, a pet lioness from a Detroit crack house. […]