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  • 3-year-old girl reportedly taken in Detroit as police search for father

    Detroit - Police are searching for a 3-year-old girl taken by an unknown man while her mother was allegedly being assaulted by her father. An Amber Alert was issued late Sunday night for Alonna Anderson, who was last seen at her home in the area of Northfield Avenue and Interstate 96, where the man placed her inside an older-model, green Jeep Cherokee during the alleged assault. The two men then ...

  • Officials Kayakers find body in Thornapple River

    Thornapple Township - Officials say kayakers have found a man's body in the Thornapple River. The body was reported Sunday afternoon in Barry County's Thornapple Township, about 20 miles southeast of Grand Rapids. The body was sent to the medical examiner's office for autopsy and identification. The death is under ...

  • Royal Oak club off the hook after customer falls hits bar

    Royal Oak - A woman hoping to get a drink near closing time instead tripped and whacked her head on the bar at a club. Is the owner liable? The Michigan appeals court says no. Ekaterina Novokshonova could see there was quite a party that night at Sangria in Royal Oak. The court says the presence of paper, leftover food and bottle caps should have made the hazard "open and obvious." ...

  • Tigers Rangers Score Texas Beats Detroit 11-8 Despite 3 HR Night For Miguel Cabrera

    Detroit Tigers Miguel Cabrera rounds the bases, after hitting his second home run of the game, in the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Texas Rangers Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Arlington. (AP Photo/John F. ...

  • Amber Alert Police are looking for 3-year-old Detroit girl

    Detroit police said Alonna Anderson was taken Sunday night from a home in the area of Northfield Avenue and I-96 by someone while her mother was being assaulted by Anderson's ...


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Viridiana [DVD]

Viridiana [DVD]

Luis Buuels Palme dOr-winning Viridiana is famous for many reasons, particularly for its sharp-witted critique of Catholic piety running aground on the ugly shores of humanity, which reaches a climax involving an iconic visual mockery of Da Vincis The Last Supper, all of which ... ...

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  • Detroit police 4 wounded in drive-by shooting

    Police say a woman tried to drive the men to a nearby hospital, but she crashed into a home. According to police, the 30-year-old man was last listed in critical condition and the others were in temporary serious condition. The woman was in good ...

  • General Motors and Deloitte Touche in $303 million securities class action

    A securities class action brought against General Motors (GM) by German’s DekaBank has led to a cash settlement of $277 million. In one of the biggest shareholder recoveries of 2008, the settlement will be paid to shareholders following an alleged misstatement of the auto company’s financials dating back to 2000. GM’s outside auditor, Deloitte & Touche, is ...

  • Ticker Stephen A. Smith not taking Knicks loss too well

    Hey, at least your team made the playoffs, Stephen A. Smith.The outspoken ESPN personality took to Twitter on Sunday to mourn the loss of the New York Knicks, who were eliminated in six games by the Indiana Pacers on Saturday in the Eastern Conference ...

  • Detroit Red Wings coach Mike Babcock having the most fun hes had in a couple of years

    Detroit Red Wings coach Mike Babcock, top, directs his team during the first period of Game 1 against the Chicago Blackhawks in Chicago, Wednesday, May 15, 2013. / Associated ...

  • Detroit community project house stripped before resident can move in

    George Bezenar, 62, of Detroit looks Tuesday at the damage scrappers caused when they broke into a house he still hopes to live in in Detroit's Brightmoor area. The furnace was stripped along with some copper. / Jessica J. Trevino/Detroit Free ...

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