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Rep. Gary Peters team announces campaign manger
Peters is running to fill the U.S. Senate seat opening up with the retirement of Carl Levin. Peters is from Bloomfield Township in Oakland County, a suburban Detroit bellwether important to winning a statewide ...
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Pistons 5050 Payday Raises More Than $200K in Donations
Non-Profit Partners and Winners Recognized Final Game of the Pistons Season AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - The Detroit Pistons 50/50 Payday charity raffle has raised more than $200,000 during its inaugural Pistons' 2012-13 season, helping support non-profits throughout the State of Michigan, as well as the organization's Come Together Foundation in support of volunteerism, youth leadership ...
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Detroit police search for missing man
Detroit police are looking for a man who has been missing for nearly two weeks.One of Dwayne ...
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Godfrey leads East English Village to PSL East-West title
East English Village's Trevon Godfrey celebrates an inside-the-park home run against Osborn during the PSL East-West championship Monday. Godfrey also was the winning pitcher, striking out 10. / Andre J. Jackson/Detroit Free ...
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Cecilia Crocker sole survivor of 1987 Michigan plane crash breaks silence
Cecelia Crocker's body provides her with a constant reminder of the most traumatic event of her life-one that she doesn't otherwise remember. At only 4 years old, Crocker was the lone survivor of the 1987 Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crash that killed 154 people aboard, including Crocker's parents and brother, and two on the ground near Detroit Metropolitan Airport. In Sole ...
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Game 3 Red Wings 3 Blackhawks 1 Disallowed Goal Helps Red Wings Top Blackhawks
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Michigan sees increase in funding for start-up businesses
Michigan is a goldmine of funding for new start-up businesses, despite a dip in such giving nationally, according to the Michigan Venture Capital Association. The group found in its annual research report that the Great Lakes State jumped to 15th-best state in the nation for venture capital activity, up from 25th a year ago. That means investors who underwrite start-ups are heaping millions of ...
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Firefighter injured in Detroit warehouse fire
A firefighter suffered a minor injury battling a blaze Monday at a vacant warehouse in Detroit.The fire broke out at about 2:10 p.m. in a large trash pile next to the building in the 15000 block of Woodrow Wilson near Pilgrim, said Detroit Fire Senior Chief Joseph Rinehart. Flames spread to a portion of the roof, sending dark, thick smoke high in the air.One firefighter injured his elbow, ...
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Kids taken from filthy Pontiac home after girl 3 found wandering
A 3-year-old girl found wandering early Friday morning on a Pontiac street led ...
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Saudi man jailed after pressure cooker found in bags at Detroit Metro Airport seeks bond
DETROIT - A Saudi man arrested at Detroit Metropolitan Airport after allegedly lying about why he was travelling with a pressure cooker asked to be released on bond Monday. Hussain Al Khawahir, 33, was arrested May 11 by federal agents at the airport in Romulus, Michigan, and charged with giving false statements to federal agents and possessing an altered passport. Defence lawyer James C. ...
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Barry Bonds Miguel Cabrera the best ... but not better than him
San Francisco Giants slugger Barry Bonds takes batting practice before a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sept. 29, 2006. / Associated ...
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Palisades water tank repairs take to early summer
COVERT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- Operators of the idled Palisades Nuclear Power Plant in southwestern Michigan say repairs to a tank that leaked slightly radioactive water into Lake Michigan will take until early summer to ...
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Detroit Pistons 2.0 Mobile App for Android and iPhone Offers In-Game Seat Upgrade Option
April 15, 2013 AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - It's 7:30 p.m. You're at tonight's Detroit Pistons game against the Charlotte Bobcats. You're sitting in the 200-level, but you see some open seats in the 100-level. Tonight - you can use the official Detroit Pistons Mobile App to upgrade your seats in the arena. The Pistons are the second team to provide the seat upgrade option on ...
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Witness McCree said mistress sought $10000 for problem pregnancy woman says judge may not be the father
Judge Wade McCree looks up at his attorney Brian Einhorn as he faces a tenure commission hearing in the Washtenaw County today. / Mandi Wright/Detroit Free ...
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Eminem publisher sues Facebook says tech giant appropriated rappers song
Eminem performs for his release party of his new album Relapse at the Sound Board stage in the Motor City Casino in Detroit, on Tuesday, May 19, 2009. / Kimberly P. Mitchell/Detroit Free ...
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Lawyers for Jodi Arias request withdrawal from case judge refuses
Jodi Arias lawyers refused mistrial request: Lawyers in the Jodi Arias trial were denied a mistrial and claim that witnesses meant to take the stand received threats and ...
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Adrian man in child pornography case opts to stay in jail
A 24-year-old Adrian man charged in a child pornography case after authorities found a photo of a dead infant with a noose around her neck on his computer thumb drive declined his detention hearing in federal court today, opting to stay in jail.Sean Gossman, who wore a yellow Wayne County Jail jumpsuit, hung his head during most of his time in the courtroom.Gossman appeared in U.S. District ...
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GOP to open permanent regional offices across Michigan in effort to connect with voters
LANSING — The Michigan Republican Party plans to open five permanent regional offices around the state, hire staff and invest in technology as it launches a plan to improve the ...
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GM announces internship program for 110 Detroit area students
GM hired high school students from 11 high schools to help spruce up the city. The 110 students are planning service work type projects that include cleaning up the city, planting gardens and setting up food banks. The schools on the roster are the United Way Network of Excellence schools. For the schools involved, it is probably a dream come true. Not only do the students get paid, they also ...
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Lawyer Ex-Mich. Supreme Court Justice Hathaway shouldnt go to jail
Detroit - Former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway shouldn't spend a day in federal prison, her lawyer said Monday, despite admitting she orchestrated an elaborate two-year scheme to defraud her bank of $600,000 owed on a Grosse Pointe Park home. Hathaway pleaded guilty in January to one count of felony bank fraud, eight days after she left the bench in the biggest scandal to ...
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Upbeat Bing tees up more business help for recreation and police fire
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing said Monday that his Active and Safe Campaign has already raised $24 million of its $60-million three-year target to support public safety and recreational programs, and that another major donation will be announced in the next week or ...
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Oakland County vows to take fight real estate tranfer tax fight to Supreme Court
Oakland County is vowing to take its fight against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to get millions in real estate transfer taxes from the mortgage giants.The county was dealt a blow in the battle Monday when a federal appellate court tossed out its lawsuit seeking $12 million in unpaid real estate transfer taxes. The county says ...
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Who wants to be Detroit mayor 22 candidates do
In announcing he won't seek a second term, Mayor Dave Bing slammed Michigan officials for ceding most of his power to an emergency manager who currently controls almost every aspect of City Hall, from spending to hiring.That arrangement, coupled with a stubbornly high crime rate, blighted neighborhoods and a financial crisis that has pushed Detroit toward bankruptcy, raised an obvious ...
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Pfizer halts study of lymphoma drug unlikely to help survival
Pfizer Inc , which has been on a hot streak with three recent approvals of cancer drugs, stumbled on Monday, saying it was halting a late-stage trial of a drug ...
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Anti-violence marchers aid man stabbed along route
A 61-year-old man was fighting with his alleged assailant before he was stabbed around 6:20 p.m. The assailant then fled on a bicycle, police spokeswoman Officer Eren Stephens said in an email. She said the victim was in good ...
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Michigan's poor battle through recession
Michigan is struggling through the tail end of the global recession, unemployment is up, salaries have been cut, the state government is confronted with reduced tax revenue and increased welfare costs while Michigan’s most vulnerable residents, the low to lower middle class income earners, fall through an already over-burdened social net.
One of the social organisations on the frontline of these socio-economic trends is the Food Bank Council of Michigan, a group funded partly by government, but predominantly through donations of food and money by the public. According to the group’s website, the vast majority, over 90%, of financial donations go towards the purchase and distribution of food, with the remainder taken up by administrative costs. Read more
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