The pastor of a Detroit storefront church fatally shot a man who was threatening him with a brick during an afternoon service today, reports The Detroit News.

Recently, a man attempted to a kill a spider after noticing it while filling his car at a gas station, Fox 2 Detroit reports—an understandable impulse, if somewhat gratuitous. However! His weapon of choice was a lighter, and he set the whole pump on fire. Haha, whoops.

A routine snack-snatching turned violent on Tuesday when a Detroit man confronted a potato chip thief and was shot in the groin, WXYZ reports.

The Satanic Temple has unveiled its controversial bronze Baphomet statue in Detroit, Reuters reports. The statue was originally going to be installed in Oklahoma, next to a monument to the 10 Commandments. It didn’t work out.

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Street artist Shepard Fairey, most famous for his iconic (and controversial) Obama “Hope” poster, was arrested last week in Los Angeles upon returning to the United States from Europe. Fairey is charged with vandalizing 14 different buildings in Detroit.

On Monday, Mitchelle Blair pleaded guilty to murdering two of her children and storing their bodies in the freezer of her Detroit home. Police found the bodies of her 13-year-old daughter and nine-year-old son while carrying out an eviction notice in March.

According to The New York Times, authorities in Detroit have issued a warrant for artist Shepard Fairey’s arrest, charging the outdoor graphic designer with two felony counts of malicious destruction of property.

Jerome Robinson only got to live in the home of his dreams for five years before he was told to leave.

Three members of a Michigan family have been indicted for allegedly extorting a retired software executive to the tune of nearly $3 million over four years. Prosecutors say the man at the center of the conspiracy was threatening to reveal that his stripper daughter and her teenage cousin had been involved in a paid threesome with the millionaire victim.

Eminem granted a terminally ill teen's dying wish earlier this week, showing up for a secret visit Sunday night.

If there's one thing we learned in 2014, it's that political cartoons are awful. Doubly so if your name is "Banksy" and triply so if your name isn't "Banksy" but you wish it were, like the aspiring satirist behind the piece seen above, which reportedly "has many outraged" in Detroit.

Much of downtown Detroit is without electricity following a "major cable failure" at one of the city's power grids. Roughly 100 buildings, including schools, museums, fire stations, court houses, and sports arenas, were still without power as of noon.

The Detroit area was pounded with unprecedented amounts of rain and flash floods on Monday, but Jena David, a 30-year-old woman who was caught in the deluge, survived—even though local news reported her as dead.

An eight-year-old boy was shot and killed while sleeping in his bed last night in Detroit. Police say a gunman opened fire on the back of his townhouse, and a bullet went through the window and hit him in the chest.

A Michigan woman convicted earlier this year of shooting her lover in the stomach has been granted bond, set at $10,000. The prosecutor called the facts of the case "a little bizarre," which is a polite understatement: 58-year-old Sadie Bell said she shot the man when she suspected him of cheating because he didn't produce enough ejaculate when they had sex that night.

A new appraisal of the Detroit Institute of Art's collection values the works at up to $4.6 billion (though an actual sale would probably bring in slightly less than $1 billion). Would selling some of these works mean rejecting art? Not at all. It would mean embracing humanity.

Police arrested a man at the Detroit Metro Airport after TSA agents found a knife hidden in the lining of his shoe. The TSA heralded this man's ability to hide a weapon in his shoe, saying it was "artfully concealed."

The day before I went to Detroit, the city imposed a curfew due to fears of violence. The city was also in the process of shutting off water to thousands of its residents. It sounds bad. But as long as you stay inside a sealed corporate bubble the whole time, you'll never even know these problems exist.