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  • Workers must reject emergency manager’s plan for Detroit

    Kevyn Orr has now submitted his initial economic plan for Detroit, and it is what weexpected--a slash and burn program to force workers throughout the city to pay backbondholders, while "restructuring" the city in the interests of the rich. With all the arrogance of a dictator, Orr, an unelected official, has declared there will beno vote by the people or negotiations on the terms of ...

  • Wayne County Circuit Judge McCree faces fight for reputation career

    Detroit - To most observers, Wayne County Circuit Judge Wade Harper McCree had it all: a top-drawer education, a prestigious career and a family pedigree of accomplishment that goes back at least three generations. But in the past five months, he has been battling sordid allegations that could derail his career and dishonor his family name. Today, McCree is scheduled to appear before the ...

  • Neal Rubin Study says Detroit is a great departure city — which counts as an honor sort of

    In the Best & Worst Departure Cities for Domestic Travel, Detroit it the fourth-best departure city behind Denver, Dallas and Chicago. (John T. Greilick /The Detroit ...

  • Michigan aims to expand education for inmates

    New Haven - Quantrez Sawyer was a security officer in Detroit three years ago, but he wasn't earning enough to live outside his mother's house and support his three children. So he robbed a suburban McDonald's and is now serving a five-year sentence at the Macomb Correctional Facility. Sawyer, who will be released in 2015, began taking a new entrepreneurship class at the prison, ...

  • State tries to ease load on Michigans foster care system

    Sterling Heights- The Department of Human Services is testing a pilot project in three counties designed to keep children out of foster care and save the state money. Scheduled to begin in August, Lutheran Social Services will operate two of the projects in Macomb and Kalamazoo counties. The nonprofit, with one of its 44 offices in Sterling Heights, is a provider of foster care, adoption and ...


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Movie Review

Under the Volcano [DVD]

Under the Volcano [DVD]

When we first see British consul Geoffery Firmin (Albert Finney) wandering through a marketplace in Cuernavaca, Mexico, there is no indication that anything is wrong. Dressed in a sharp black tuxedo, his hair immaculately in place, and large, dark sunglasses hiding his eyes, he ... ...

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  • Sheriff Carjacker takes woman to Pontiac robs her

    Pontiac A man left his wife in the car when he ran into a Commerce Township fast food restaurant and when he came out, she and the car were gone. The Oakland County Sheriff's Office said a carjacker drove the 74-year-old handicapped woman about 12 miles to Pontiac before robbing her of money and jumping out of the vehicle. Police said the woman's husband went inside a Subway sandwich ...

  • MLB Texas 11 Detroit 8

    Geovany Soto went 3-for-5 with a run scored for Texas, which improved to an MLB best 29-15. Robbie Ross (2-0) earned the victory with a scoreless seventh inning ...

  • Four wounded in drive-by shooting outside house party in Detroit

    Four men were shot early today outside a house party in Detroit and woman trying to drive them to a local hospital crashed into a dwelling, Detroit Police said.One of the four men, a 30-year-old, was in critical condition, police said tonight. The other three men, ages 18, 22 and 27, were in temporary serious condition.The 25-year-old female driver was listed in good condition. Police did not ...

  • Detroit woman reportedly taken at gunpoint from home

    Neighbors on Ashton Street, south of Warren Avenue and west of the Southfield Freeway, said they heard a loud argument from the home around 4 a.m. ...

  • Man found slain in vacant dwelling on Detroits west side

    Detroit Police are seeking information about the slaying of a man whose body was found in a vacant dwelling on the ...

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