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  • GM recalls nearly 20000 new Cadillac SRX SUVs

    General Motors Corporation said it is recalling nearly 20,000 new Cadillac SRX SUVs for faulty wheel lug nuts, according to a Detroit News report. The Detroit automaker told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration it is recalling 18,871 2013 SRX SUVs in the US and nearly 1,000 in Canada over concerns that a wheel could eventually fall off, reported Xinhua. GM has been investigating ...

  • Chief judge slams report critical of troubled Detroit District Court

    36th District Court Chief Judge Kenneth King is fuming over the report and calls the report the beginning of a possible takeover of ...

  • Conyers apologizes for Farrakhans anti-Semitic remarks

    U.S. Rep. John Conyers apologized Thursday for Louis Farrakhan's anti-Semitic remarks made during a speech the Nation of Islam leader gave in Detroit last week. "During this speech, Minister Farrakhan made unacceptable racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic statements, which I condemn in the strongest possible terms," Conyers said in a statement Thursday. "It was my expectation ...

  • Behind DTW airports response to April bomb threat

    Thickly wrapped in newspaper and duct tape, several packages stowed in a man's luggage as he passed through Detroit Metropolitan Airport security last month had local and federal law enforcement officers believing they'd detected an explosive. As the terminal was partially evacuated and a bomb squad called, officers' suspicions grew because the man became agitated, smelled of ...

  • Kilpatrick to have surgery on bum knee

    MORE ON ON THAT AND YOUR WEEKEND FORECAST STRAIGHT AHEAD. ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, ANDREW. EX-DETROIT MAYOR KWAME KILPATRICK BACK IN A DETROIT FEDERAL COURTROOM TODAY AHEAD OF SENTENCING ON CORRUPTION CHARGES. LOCAL 4 REPORTER KEVIN DIETZ WAS IN THE COURTROOM. WHAT WAS IT BAWL AND HOW DID THE EX-MAYOR LOOK? Reporter: KWAME KILPATRICK WANTED A NEW ATTORNEY HE GOT ONE. THERE WAS NO EXPENSIVE SUIT FOR ...


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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan [DVD]

Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan [DVD]

By the seventh installment of the illimitable Friday the 13th franchise, it seemed that any hope for originality or innovation was long gone, if it had ever existed to begin with. As a new movie in the series had been released virtually every year since 1980, there just didn't seem to be that much more to add to the tried-and-true stalk-and-slash formula. They had already used the gimmick ... ...

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  • Game thread Tigers-Twins will start in a rain delay

    It was a rainy night in Cleveland on Wednesday. Tonight is no different at Comerica Park, where it looks like tonight's Tigers-Twins game will be delayed. The two teams are opening a 4-game weekend series.Scott Diamond (3-4, 4.99 ERA) of the Twins faces Rick Porcello (2-2, 5.92) of the ...

  • Detroits Whole Foods Market gets vibrant murals brightening Midtown

    Detroit artist Jerome Ferretti stands beside the whimsical mural he created for the exterior of the Whole Foods Market set to open June 5 in Midtown. / Andre J. Jackson/Detroit Free ...

  • Lakers Kupchak thinks Dwight Howard can play nice with coach MAY 23

    06:30 PM ET 05.23 | Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak believes Dwight Howard will take a return to Los Angeles seriously. The Long Beach Press-Telegram reports that Howard is also interested in Dallas, Houston, Golden State and Atlanta as free agency destinations. But he will also consider the Lakers, whose coach, Mike D'Antoni, is rumored to have rubbed Howard the wrong way. Kupchak ...

  • Nate McMillan done as Team USA assistant MAY 23

    05:58 PM ET 05.23 | On the same day coach Mike Krzyzewski announced he would return to coach Team USA, his assistant, Nate McMillan, said he won't. McMillan is currently searching for a head coaching opportunity that would fit him. ...

  • Kobe Bryant ties records for most All-NBA selections MAY 23

    06:11 PM ET 05.23 | Kobe Bryant may not have a chance to usurp Michael Jordan for greatest ever, but he's in the running for having the greatest longevity. The Los Angeles Lakers guard was named to the All-NBA First Team on Thursday, the 11th time he's appeared on the first team and the 15th time he's been on the list overall. That ties him with former Utah Jazz forward Karl ...

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