| Base IDs source of Legionnaires' outbreak |
 Harrison Township -- A water cooling tower was identified as the source of a Legionnaires' disease outbreak that sickened seven civilian workers in July at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, officials said Thursday.
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| Teachers rule in experimental school |
 Detroit -- Students at Palmer Park Preparatory Academy this year won't have to worry about being sent to the principal's office. Their school won't have one.
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| Mail to resume at Detroit seniors' complex after bedbug halt |
Detroit -- Mail service will be restored as early as today to a senior citizen apartment high-rise with a bedbug problem, a postal official said.
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| Gun buyback event nets more than 400 in 3 hours |
 Detroit -- So many people turned in firearms Thursday at a police gun buyback event that officials had to issue vouchers for payment. More than 400 broken and working pistols, rifles and shotguns were turned in within three hours at Second Ebenezer Church, earning participants $20,000.
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| DPS unveils $10.7M renovation project |
Detroit -- Detroit Public Schools unveiled Thursday the first completed construction project under a $500.5 million bond construction program. John R. King pre-kindergarten to eighth-grade school received a $10.7 million renovation, marking the first of the 18 schools expected to be restored or rebuilt under the bond program Detroiters approved in November.
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| Facebook juror fined, apologizes for posting |
Mount Clemens -- A former juror told a judge Thursday she was "very sorry" for announcing a guilty verdict on Facebook before the trial was over.
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| City must yield phone records in stripper suit |
Detroit -- A federal magistrate judge Thursday told the city of Detroit to produce cell phone records and other documents within 16 days to a lawyer representing the family of a slain stripper.
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| State probes oil spill cleanup |
Michigan's Occupational Safety and Health Administration launched an investigation this week into conditions of the workers cleaning up the more than 800,000 gallons of crude oil that recently spilled into western Michigan waterways.
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| Tom Greenwood: Labor Day weekend tips |
 It's the Labor Day weekend: Where to go and what to do? Here's a little information to help you plan for the holiday weekend.
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| New court date set for suspect in east-side fire |
A man suspected of setting a fire that injured seven Detroit firefighters last month will return to court Oct. 5. A preliminary hearing for Samson Tyrone Wright, 30, was adjourned Thursday by U.S. Magistrate Judge Donald Scheer.
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