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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 ...

  • Duggan certified to run for Detroit mayor Pugh dissents

    Detroit - The city's Election Commission on Thursday certified Detroit mayoral candidate Mike Duggan to stay on the ballot for the Aug. 6 primary election. The three-member commission decided 2-1 Thursday that Duggan met requirements under the new City Charter to file for office. Voting to certify were City Clerk Janice Winfrey and interim corporation counsel Edward Keelean. The third ...

  • Hamtramck in financial emergency state review team finds

    A state review team has concluded that a financial emergency exists in Hamtramck, the Michigan Department of Treasury said Thursday. The five-member team, appointed last month under the state's new emergency manager law, found that Hamtramck's projected general fund deficit - $3.3 million as of June 30, 2013 - exceeds 5 percent of the $16 million in general fund revenues the city ...

  • Detroit Election Commission keeps Duggan on mayoral ballot

    Mike Duggan passes by the press as he files his paperwork to run for mayor at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center in Detroit on Tuesday, April 2, 2013. / Kathleen Galligan/Detroit Free ...

  • Hoke didnt know about U-Ms not in Ohio football

    Michigan football coach Brady Hoke may not be a fan of Ohio State, but he has no problem with the State of Ohio itself.The footballs U-M receiver Bo ...


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Movie Review

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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