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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 ...

  • Officials say Detroit bridge operator involved in freighter crash fired

    The operator of a Rouge River drawbridge that crashed down onto an ore carrier last week has been fired, Wayne County officials said. "We completed our investigation and she was terminated as a result," said Cindy Dingell, deputy CEO of Wayne County Department of Public Services, on Thursday. The woman had worked for the county 17 years, including 15 as a bridge operator, Dingell said. ...

  • Police find car but not wifes ashes that were in trunk

    Police found the car on Thursday, but the ashes were gone. The family hopes those ashes can be found and turned over to the Edward Swans Funeral Home in Madison ...

  • Chicago Blackhawks vs Detroit Red Wings Live Stream Free Watch Online Stanley Cup Playoffs Western Conference Semifinals Game 4

    Detroit Red Wings goalie Jimmy Howard (L) is congratulated by teammate Jakub Kindl after the Red Wings defeated the Chicago Blackhawks during Game 2 of their NHL Western Conference semi-final playoff hockey game in Chicago, Illinois, May 18, 2013. Chicago Blackhawks vs Detroit Red Wings takes place in the Stanley Cup Playoffs Game 4 on Thursday night, with the Blackhawks looking to go on the ...

  • Detroit Pistons To Clean Up St. Hedwig Park In Detroit April 18 For NBA Green Week Presented By Sprint

    AUBURN HILLS, Mich. - The Detroit Pistons are helping to clean-up St. Hedwig Park in Southwest Detroit today from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., clearing debris, removing graffiti and painting the basketball court to celebrate NBA Green Week. Members of the Pistons organization, including Pistons Legend Earl Cureton, will join Detroit ...


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Movie Review

In America

In America

There are so many ways in which Jim Sheridans In America could have gone wrong. The intensely personal story of an Irish immigrant family trying to make it in New York City against all odds, it has all the elements of sappy sentimentalism, including a third act that takes place almost entirely inside a hospital and features not just one main character dying, but two others who are, at vari ... ...

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  • 4 incidents reported of man exposing himself to women in Troy Royal Oak

    Four similar incidents have been reported in Troy and Royal Oak over the past week when women and girls were followed by a man who exposed himself and made lewd comments, police said.Troy police issued an alert about the incidents this afternoon, warning the community to be on the lookout for the man seen driving a red SUV. No one has been injured.According to police, the incidents ...

  • Prosecutors Ex-Justice Diane Hathaway should go to prison for bank fraud

    Former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway leaves federal court in Ann Arbor, Mich., Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2013, with her husband, Michael Kingsley, after pleading guilty to bank fraud. / Carlos Osorio/Associated ...

  • Judge declares mistrial in penalty phase after Jodi Arias jurors deadlock

    PHOENIX -- Jurors have deadlocked on a verdict of life or death for Jodi Arias in the 2008 killing of her one-time boyfriend. The judge declared a mistrial in the penalty phase. Another panel will be seated and the sentencing process will begin anew in July. The jury found Arias guilty of first-degree murder May 8 and later determined the killing was cruel enough to merit consideration of the ...

  • Chief judge slams report critical of troubled Detroit District Court

    36th District Court Chief Judge Kenneth King is fuming over the report and calls the report the beginning of a possible takeover of ...

  • Conyers apologizes for Farrakhans anti-Semitic remarks

    U.S. Rep. John Conyers apologized Thursday for Louis Farrakhan's anti-Semitic remarks made during a speech the Nation of Islam leader gave in Detroit last week. "During this speech, Minister Farrakhan made unacceptable racist, anti-Semitic and homophobic statements, which I condemn in the strongest possible terms," Conyers said in a statement Thursday. "It was my expectation ...

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