A gay travel agency has ranked Detroit the most dangerous place to travel for LGBT people. See also: straight people.

Forbes has released its annual list of the ten most dangerous cities in the U.S. Check to see if you live in one of them! And if you are currently being mugged, then you definitely live in one of them.

Returning to her home in Detroit's historic Boston-Edison district after a year away, Heidi Peterson was shocked to find an uninvited house guest who had apparently been squatting in her residence for several months.

A U-Haul truck carrying Vice President Joe Biden's campaign equipment was stolen late Saturday night from a Westin Hotel's parking lot in Detroit. Ed Donovan, a Secret Service spokesman, confirmed the theft.

Generally walking into a fire station and confessing to murder is a good way to get oneself arrested. But a Detroit man was forced to turn himself in twice after the first time didn't stick.

Having a house guest can be stressful, especially when said guest is one resident's ex-boyfriend.

A 24-year-old Detroit woman was reportedly killed after the gun of an off-duty police officer accidentally discharged as she was hugging him, puncturing her lung and heart.

Plenty of heartbreaking yelps and yips can be heard throughout the post-apocalyptic compound of Detroit rapper Young Calicoe as he callously introduces seemingly malnourished caged pitbulls as his "fighting dogs."

Early Saturday, a pregnant 22-year-old woman in Detroit was kidnapped, set on fire, and shot. Miraculously, she's expected to make a full recovery — and so is the fetus inside her.

Detroit 3rd Circuit Judge Wade McCree isn't too bothered by allegations that he sent a semi-nude cell phone photo of himself to a married female court bailiff.

Self-proclaimed "car guy" Mitt Romney accidentally outed himself as being super rich at Ford Field in Detroit. (Detroit: good place to advertise love of cars, bad place to advertise excessive wealth.) Turns out he and his wife drive multiple cars, which — while not surprising — doesn't help with the accusation that he is out of touch with the common man. USA Today brings us some analysis of the damage done by Romney's car tally.

The statistical wizards at Men's Health have calculated the happiest and saddest cities in America. And, well, they are cities that no sane person has any business living in. But even so, their ten saddest seem a lot better?

Well, so much for that: Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man who tried to blow up his underpants on a flight to Detroit on Christmas 2009, pleaded guilty to all charges today, just as his trial was getting underway.

You know how socialist billionaire Warren Buffett wrote that column last week where he said, "cut the coddling shit, government bros—I want to be taxed more," or something to that effect, and just about everybody tweeted it? Yeah, well, Charles Koch didn't like that column very much.

Earlier this week we learned that dogs are good for your respiratory system because they can smell your lung cancer. But are dogs also maybe bad for your lungs, because they manufacture poop that's loaded with airborne bacteria?

Everyone welcome Thad McCotter to the race for the Republican presidential nomination! Who? you ask. Well, according to our notes, McCotter is a... congressman from... Michigan who, let's see, is supposed to be sort of funny? (According to Andrew Breitbart McCotter is "blunt, sarcastic, pop-culture-savvy, constitutionally sound and an authentic voice.") Also, he looks vaguely like my AP US History teacher, so he'll definitely have the Princeton High School class of 2003 vote locked. Oh, and the issues! McCotter's "themes" are: "The challenge of globalization, the war for freedom against terrorists, the rise of Communist China and whether moral relativism erodes a nation built on self-evident truth." McCotter announced his bid for the presidency yesterday at the "WAAM Freedom Fest," where he also played guitar. [Detroit Free Press]

For the past 20 years, Drew Mandy—whose parents describe him as having "the mental capacity of a two-year-old"—has carried a plastic hammer toy around with him for "security" reasons. It's his thing. But recently TSA agents took his beloved hammer away from him, because it made tapping noises.

The Koch-backed group Americans For Prosperity admitted to posting fake eviction notices on numerous Detroit homes Monday in order to "startle people" about a bridge project that the group opposes.

I hate to be the one to tell you this — and on Mother's Day, of all days! — but your mom might be part of a syndicate of hardened thieves who steal credit cards and cash from distracted shoppers.

Charlie Sheen's live show was terrible, unsurprisingly. Lindsay Lohan might play a murder victim. Kate Middleton has six hairdressers. Bad things are happening in the world; let's numb ourselves with a Sunday Gossip Roundup!