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Entrepreneurs once flocked to Motor City to build cars. Now, they're building its mobility future. David Medina Èülvarez hopped on a four-wheeled vehicle that looked like a speeder bike from [...]

Byline: Micheline Maynard Other places in the country may be shooting off fireworks to hail the end of covid-19 restrictions, thanks to vaccination successes such as the 70 percent rate [...]

Byline: Micheline Maynard Generations of Detroiters sat through early-morning traffic jams on their way to auto factories and soaring downtown office buildings, only to repeat the time-consuming process in the [...]

Byline: Micheline Maynard For nearly 100 years, Chrysler reigned among Detroit's fabled automakers. It was heralded for big luxurious cars like the Airflow, a sleek experiment in aerodynamics; the Imperial, [...]

This article is part of our latest special report on Museums , which focuses on the intersection of art and politics. EAST LANSING, Mich. -- The Eli and Edythe Broad [...]

Byline: Micheline Maynard When experts examine the decline of 21st-century Major League Baseball, it won't just be performance-enhancing drugs or sign-stealing scandals that pointed the way. It will be teams' [...]

Byline: Micheline Maynard When experts examine the decline of 21st-century Major League Baseball, it won't just be performance-enhancing drugs or sign-stealing scandals that pointed the way. It will be teams' [...]

Byline: Micheline Maynard Detroit is stuck. Its carmakers still sell plenty of vehicles. But while their chief challenge for the past century has been figuring out which cars consumers will [...]

Byline: Micheline Maynard A brash, outsize personality and best-selling autobiography. Private jets and multiple wives. Frequent subject of Time magazine covers. A taste for the lavish lifestyle. A celebrity transcending [...]

TOLEDO, Ohio -- The American automobile and the Toledo Museum of Art were born only a few years apart. Now the museum is about to present a major show that [...]

Byline: Micheline Maynard A brash, outsize personality and best-selling autobiography. Private jets and multiple wives. Frequent subject of Time magazine covers. A taste for the lavish lifestyle. A celebrity transcending [...]

Byline: Micheline Maynard The lingerie manager in the long-gone Michigan department store where I worked spent as much of her wages on store merchandise as she did on her rent. [...]

NEW ORLEANS -- When Fayad Araiji came to Crowley, La., from Zgharta in northern Lebanon in 1920, he did not speak a word of English. But by 1928, Mr. Araiji, [...]

Byline: MICHELINE MAYNARD NEW ORLEANS -- When Fayad Araiji came to Crowley, La., from Zgharta in northern Lebanon in 1920, he did not speak a word of English. But by [...]

DETROIT -- In 1915, as demand for the Model T was booming, Henry Ford came up with a plan. He bought land to build a complex that would include all [...]

Byline: Micheline Maynard The lingerie manager in the long-gone Michigan department store where I worked spent as much of her wages on store merchandise as she did on her rent. [...]

DETROIT -- In the summer, the radio airwaves here once belonged to Ernie Harwell. In the winter, they were under the command of Budd Lynch. Those two voices symbolized sportscasting [...]

The most exceptional thing about Brianna Amat, who has become known as the Kicking Queen, is not her twin accomplishments as homecoming queen and place-kicker. It is that she feels [...]

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- In his 18 years at Pinckney Community High School, Jim Darga, the principal, said, the homecoming queen had always been crowned at halftime of the school's [...]

Thousands of people are still cleaning up from Tropical Storm Irene, but the residual impact may be felt by people who didn't see a drop of rain over the weekend. [...]

With used-car prices at historic highs, customers hoping for those prices to decline may have to wait years for a reprieve. Prices for used cars are likely to stay high [...]

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The F.B.I. has joined with area police departments to investigate six assaults on young women, including two rapes, near the University of Michigan campus during the [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED DETROIT -- In the sixth full season of his major league career, Justin Verlander is the Detroit Tigers' biggest drawing card, providing a reason for fans to climb [...]

''Would you buy a used car from that guy?'' was the old refrain. Now, that guy is desperate to buy your car. Prices for used cars have been on an [...]

IN July 2009, a few weeks after her fiance called off their engagement, Sarah Fox sent word in an e-mail to her high school sweetheart, Calvin Ford. It arrived as [...]

CHICAGO -- Midway through the second of the three ''Trinity River Plays'' at the Goodman Theater here, a small moment takes place that is hauntingly familiar to anyone with an [...]

The sweet smell of daffodils was in the air at McCormick Place on Wednesday as hybrid-electric Chevrolet Volts glided silently along a test track. The scent was detectable 50 feet [...]