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  • Detroit City Council approves hiring of new top lawyer

    Detroit - The City Council on Tuesday approved the appointment of Portia Roberson as Detroit's new top lawyer, but rejected a recommendation to hike the pay scale for the position. Before voting 8-0 against a compensation increase, City Council members said it would send a "bad message" at a time when the city is under emergency management and facing potential bankruptcy. ...

  • Detroit judge I lusted after mistress

    A Wayne County judge opened up Tuesday during his misconduct hearing about his affair with a woman who appeared as a witness in a child-support case in his ...

  • Poll Michigan voters back sales tax hike to fund roads

    LANSING — A majority of Michigan voters would favor a one percentage point hike in the state sales tax if the extra money raised went to fix state roads, according to a poll released today by EPIC/MRA of Lansing.But voters are mostly split on how to raise more than $1 billion a year to fix and maintain the ...

  • Movement afterparties May 25-27

    4264 Grand River: Ghost in the Sound, with Echospace, JPLS, Population One, Nospectacle, Woody McBride, Steve Stoll, the Flashbulb, Memnok, Paranormal Tek, Austin Churchill and A Sharp, 9 p.m. Sun. 4262 Grand River, Detroit.Bleu Detroit: Desolatismus, with Martin Buttrich, Guti and Dru Ruiz, 10 p.m. Fri. Anthony Attalla & Victor Calderone, with Miguel Alvarado, 10 p.m. Sat. Stacey Pullen, ...

  • Novi food truck rally postponed

    A Novi food truck rally scheduled for midday Wednesday at Haggerty Corridor Corporate Park has been postponed, its organizers announced today. A new date for the rally will be set soon, they ...


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Resident Evil: Afterlife

Resident Evil: Afterlife

Before heading into Resident Evil: Afterlife, the fourth installment in the seemingly unstoppable video-game-based franchise, I had to remind myself that I had, in fact, seen two of the previous three installments, not just one. I had skipped out on 2007s ...

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  • Judge McCree I lusted after that woman

    Ann Arbor -Embattled Wayne County Circuit Judge Wade McCree took the witness stand in his own defense Tuesday and animatedly described details of an extramarital affair and its consequences that could derail his judicial career. The 56-year old married judge, who freely admitted to having an affair with a litigant who had a child support case before him, testified she came on to him after an ...

  • Romney campaign intern to face cyber-stalking charge in Detroit

    Detroit - A 2012 Republican presidential campaign intern who worked for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will make an initial appearance in federal court Tuesday on charges he cyber-stalked 15 women and extorted them into sending nude photos. Adam Savader, 21, of Great Neck, N.Y., is charged with cyber-stalking and Internet extortion. The FBI says he obtained nude photos of women by hacking into online ...

  • Taylor man found guilty in deaths outside Porkys Bikini Bar in Pontiac

    Pontiac - An Oakland Circuit Court jury deliberated 15 hours over three days before returning a guilty verdict Tuesday for a Taylor man charged with the deaths of a woman and man slain outside Porky's Bikini Bar in May 2012. Craig Lewis, 23, was charged with two counts of felony murder, armed robbery and firearms offenses in the deaths of Shuntrice Sylvester, 19, and Anthony Ellis, 28, both ...

  • Michigan Traveling Vietnam Wall on display in Royal Oak through Thursday

    Oak Park veteran Clifford Tatum, who served two terms in Korea and two in Vietnam, looks over the names of Michigan resident that served and passed in Vietnam. (Daniel Mears / The Detroit ...

  • SUV on railroad tracks stops Amtrak for 2 hours

    Decatur Township - A sport utility vehicle found on railroad tracks in southwestern Michigan prompted officials to suspend Amtrak passenger train travel in the area for about two hours. The Van Buren County sheriff's department says the SUV belonging to a 69-year-old Decatur man was in Decatur Township, about two miles west of a rail crossing, on Tuesday morning. Investigators found the man ...

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