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  • Emergency manager to decide on Detroit bankruptcy within six weeks

    Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr has set a six-week deadline--until the end of the current fiscal year--to decide whether to file Chapter 9 bankruptcy. Detroit would be the largest city in US history to file for bankruptcy.Orr is using the threat of imminent bankruptcy--much like the Democrats and Republicans used the manufactured "fiscal cliff"--to force through sweeping ...

  • 13 dogs removed from southwest Detroit house

    Detroit - Complaints from neighbors accusing a woman of stealing their dogs led animal control workers to a southwest Detroit house overrun with 13 sickly dogs Tuesday. David Rudolph, spokesman for Detroit Dog Rescue, said the organization had been called to the woman's home on Ewers Street near Michigan Avenue about two years ago, when she was found hoarding 25 dogs, and on Tuesday, ...

  • Parents charged with murder in Flint boys death

    Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said 19-year-old Callie Rose Cserca and 29-year-old Jeremy Lewis Wise are facing second-degree murder and child abuse ...

  • Troy voters keep moderate in office after recall of Janice Daniels

    Dane Slater basks in the noise of his crowded victory party after being elected mayor of Troy in a special election today. / Bill Laitner/Detroit Free ...

  • See how much your Michigan hometown grew or shrank in 2012

    Two out of three Michigan communities experienced population declines from 2011 to 2012, according to data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. Statewide, total population increased by a marginal 0.07% - 6,559 people - during the same time period. • ...


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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1

If it could be justified for a certain boy wizard, then surely it could be justified for a teenage vampire lover--or so I imagine the boardroom discussion went when deciding to split the adaptation of the fourth and final volume of Stephanie Meyers imm ... ...

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  • Ford to end auto production in Australia in 2016

    Rain falls on a car at a Ford dealership in Sydney on Thursday, May 23, 2013. Ford Motor Co. said it was closing its two Australian auto plants and ending production in the country in 2016, amid soaring manufacturing costs and plummeting sales. (AP Photo/Rick ...

  • Gov. Snyder to visit Israel on trade mission in June

    Washington - Gov. Rick Snyder will travel to Israel in June in the latest of a series of trade missions designed to boost Michigan exports. "Gov. Snyder is indeed planning a trip to Israel in June, though we're not in a position to share details yet," spokeswoman Sara Wurfel said. Michigan exported $117 million in goods to Israel in 2012, the 19th most, and nearly $1.5 billion ...

  • Communities set to battle mosquitoes

    THE HOME PAGE OF OUR WEBSITE. GOGO TO CLICKONDETROIT.COM. WELL, ASSIGN OF THESE GUYS MAY MAKE YOU ITCHY. COMMUNITIES TAKING ACTION TO PREVENT MOSQUITOES FROM INVADING. BISI ONILE-ERE IS IN WARREN. AND CONCERN IS WEST NILE VIRUS? DEVIN, PEOPLE HAVE DIED AFTER CONTRACTING WEST NILE VIRUS FROM MOSQUITOES. SO CITIES ARE TAKING IT SERIOUSLY. A COUPLE OF WEEKS THE CITY OF WARREN WILL BEGIN TO TARGET ...

  • Court for man accused in girlfriends window fall

    ROYAL OAK TOWNSHIP — A judge has set a $765,000 bond for a suburban Detroit man ...

  • Farrakhan Kilpatricks sins would have been forgiven in white politicians

    Speaking in a Detroit church Friday night, Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam said that he plans to visit former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in prison Saturday as he tried to portray him as a victim of white ...

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