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  • Windsor plastics fire creates plume of smoke visible from Detroit

    A plastics fire in a field in Windsor has created large plumes of thick black smoke visible from much of Metro Detroit. The City of Detroit Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management confirmed the fire on the Windsor shoreline Tuesday afternoon through a Nixle notification. Windsor firefighters are on the scene of the fire in the 700 block of Sprucewood Avenue, reports the Windsor ...

  • State reviews report on Pontiac school finances mulls sending review team

    The Michigan Department of Treasury is reviewing a final report on whether a financial review team should be sent to the Pontiac School District to determine whether the district is in a financial emergency. On Monday, state Superintendent of Instruction Mike Flanagan sent the department his final report on the Oakland County school district, which is struggling with an accumulated $37.7 million ...

  • Family from Macomb Twp. survives Oklahoma tornado

    Speaking by phone, Honaker said when the tornado approached, she knew her family did not have a shelter. So they quickly drove to the house of a friend, who had an underground shelter. Even in that secure setting, Honaker said the experience was ...

  • Detroit cops arrest suspect in deadly quintuple shooting

    An arrest was made in a shooting last week that left four people injured and one woman dead, police announced Tuesday.A 27-year-old Detroit man was arrested Friday in connection with the shooting, which happened on May 15, Detroit Police Sgt. Eren Stephens said. She said the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office is reviewing charges.Police said a 54-year-old woman was killed in the shooting on ...

  • U-M makes it clear Our footballs are not made in Ohio

    The Michigan-Ohio State rivalry during the Brady Hoke era started ...


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The Phantom of Liberty (Le Fantôme de la liberté) [DVD]

The Phantom of Liberty (Le Fantôme de la liberté) [DVD]

As cowriter Jean-Claude Carrire notes in a brief excerpt from a 2000 interview on the new Criterion Collection DVD of The Phantom of Liberty (Le Fantme de la libert), master surrealist and provocateur Luis Buuel was essentially given free reign when making it ... ...

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  • Henry Ford Health System Beaumont $6.6B mega-merger called off

    The Henry Ford Health System announced today that its board of trustees has called off the planned $6.6 billion mega-merger with Beaumont Health System.In a letter to Henry Ford employees, CEO Nancy Schlichting said the decision was ...

  • Caption This A pencil-pushing senator

    How would you caption this photo of U.S. Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., questioning current and former IRS employees on Tuesday before the Senate Finance Committee. The testimony was about the scandal involving the IRS targeting conservative groups. E-mail your best ideas by 2 p.m. Thursday ...

  • Oakland County communities get $600000 EPA grant

    PONTIAC — A $600,000 federal grant will help a number of Oakland County communities do environmental investigations of contaminated land to see if it can be reused.County Executive L. Brooks Patterson said Thursday in a release that sites ...

  • Former top Detroit library official charged with taking $1.4M in bribes

    Detroit - A former administrator with the Detroit Public Library has been charged by the U.S. Attorney's Office on accusations he took more than $1.4 million in bribes and kickbacks from two contractors. Former Chief Administrative Officer Tim Cromer, 46, of West Bloomfield Township, was charged in a 21-count indictment Tuesday along with two library technology contractors, James Henley and ...

  • Trump to headline Oakland County GOP dinner tonight

    Novi - Donald Trump, the billionaire real-estate developer and entertainer who flirted with running for president last year, will be the keynote speaker Tuesday evening at the Oakland County Republican Party's largest fundraiser of the year. The challenge to recapture American greatness is the theme of Trump's message to the Lincoln Day dinner at the Suburban Collection Showplace in ...

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