Detroit News

The Detroit City Council has again delayed voting on a consent agreement that would stave off an emergency manager. More >

Detroit’s public employee unions will not negotiate more cost-cutting agreements with the city if it agrees to a state-mandated financial plan designed to stop Detroit from running out of money, the head of a major city union said on Monday.

The financial stability agreement drafted by Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s administration would require significantly deeper concessions from city unions than have already been agreed to. Opposition to the plan has come as the city’s elected leaders and state-appointed officials work to agree on Snyder’s financial plan for Detroit.

A 101-year-old Detroit woman who was evicted from her foreclosed house is expected to move back home next week.The Detroit News reports (http://bit.ly/HqbYb2) that Texana Hollis on Wednesday is expected to be back in the home where she previously lived for about 60 years. More >

Two members of the Midwest militia group Hutaree pleaded guilty to charges of possessing machine guns and temporarily walked out of jail on Thursday, two days after a judge rebuked prosecutors and dismissed more serious charges that the Hutaree plotted to attack the U.S. government. More >

The Michigan advisory team sent to examine Detroit’s finances blames elected officials for the city’s fiscal crisis, saying they failed to curb spending even as residents fled the city, piling up debt that now threatens basic services.

The 10-member Financial Review Team concluded its 90-day audit of Detroit on Monday, declaring the city in a state of “severe financial stress” but stopping short of recommending the appointment of an emergency manager to take over the city of 714,000.

Brian Bogusevic and Brian Bixler hit two-run homers Tuesday and the Houston Astros doubled up the Detroit Tigers, 14-7, in spring training. More >

About 30 unions have ratified contracts to help Detroit through its cash crisis and to avoid further state intervention in the city’s finances. About 18 AFSCME unions and others in the coalition announced Friday they have ratified contracts that will save the city some $135 million, union leaders said. The unions represents about 4,500 city workers, attorney Richard Mack said. More >

Detroit mayor Dave Bing was admitted to a hospital on Thursday afternoon due to “discomfort” after an early morning dental appointment, the mayor’s office
said on Thursday. More >

With the clock ticking on Detroit’s fiscal time bomb, the mayor and Michigan’s governor—their formerly cordial relationship in tatters—are struggling to reach a plan to patch up the city’s crumbling finances and avert a state takeover. More >

Coach Ray McCallum, his staff and the Detroit Mercy Titans have done all they can this week to prepare to play against one of the nation’s great programs in Kansas. The Titans face the No. 2 seed in the Midwest Regional at 9:57 p.m. Friday in Omaha, Neb.

The team practiced at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, met with the media and made the trek to Omaha, hoping to shock the world and Kansas as the 15th seed.