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  • Authorities Royal Oak Twp. woman 72 attempted to shoot daughter

    Royal Oak Township - A 72-year-old woman is in Oakland County Jail Wednesday and expected to face charges after allegedly attempting to shoot her adopted daughter during an argument. The 20-year-old daughter called deputies about 10 p.m. Tuesday to report her mother fired a .38 caliber handgun at her during an argument inside the mother's home in the 21000 block of Reimanville in the ...

  • Police 1-year-old dies after being found in tub in Flint

    Flint - Police say a 1-year-old boy has died after being found unresponsive in a water-filled bathtub in Flint. The Flint Journal reports police are treating the child's death Monday night as suspicious. The child's mother told police the boy was in the living room when she put his bath toys in the tub and put a drain plug in the tub. The woman told police the water wasn't running ...

  • Officials Man 76 dies after lawnmower accident in Bingham Twp.

    Bingham Township - Officials say a 76-year-old man has died after being trapped underneath a lawnmower in a Huron County ditch. The Huron Daily Tribune of Bad Axe reports William Henny was found Monday and it wasn't clear how long he had been trapped. Henny was in an about 8-foot-deep ditch and had been mowing the lawn at his home in Bingham Township, about 90 miles north of Detroit. Henny ...

  • Assault complaint leads to big marijuana bust in northern Michigan

    Alden - Authorities investigating a domestic assault complaint in Michigan's northwestern Lower Peninsula ended up finding a marijuana growing operation with hundreds of plants. The Traverse City Record-Eagle reports Antrim County sheriff's deputies went to a home in Alden on Monday and discovered 30 marijuana plants outside. The Traverse Narcotics Team responded, and authorities ...

  • Ryan Gosling skips Cannes Film Festival to hang in Detroit

    Ryan Gosling attends the premiere of 'The Place Beyond The Pines' in New York. Gosling is in Detroit filming his directorial debut and will miss the Cannes Film Festival. / Evan ...


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The House by the Cemetery (Quella villa accanto al cimitero) [Blu-Ray]

The House by the Cemetery (Quella villa accanto al cimitero) [Blu-Ray]

Lucio Fulcis The House by the Cemetery (Quella villa accanto al cimitero) was released near the end of a particularly prolific period for the Italian director, who had, after several decades of directing projects in a wide variety of genres including co ... ...

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  • Muppets creators items head to New York City museum

    Muppets Fozzie Bear, left, a Whatnot, center, and Kermit the Frog make a television appearance Nov. 24, 2008, in New York. Kermit, Miss Piggy, Bert and Ernie of 'Sesame Street' fame, the stars of 'Fraggle Rock' and other puppets, costumes and items from throughout Muppets creator Jim Henson's career have been donated to the Museum of the Moving Image, which is building a ...

  • Severe weather threat in forecast for Metro Detroit today

    The hot and humid conditions facing the metro area Wednesday could mutate into severe weather problems during the afternoon and evening, including high winds, hail and the possibility of tornados. "Today, we're looking at several rounds of showers and thunderstorms, but we have a threat of severe weather later this afternoon and evening," said Phil Kurimski, a meteorologist with ...

  • Its almost here Cheesecake Factory in Novi has opening date

    and watched my parents start their cheesecake business here in the 1950s, opening a Cheesecake Factory at Twelve Oaks feels like a true homecoming," said founder and CEO David ...

  • Children elderly woman rescued from burning home in Detroit

    Two children and an elderly woman are being treated at area hospitals after Detroit firefighters rescued them from their burning home this morning.A fire was reported in the home in the 800 block of Navahoe Street, near East Jefferson and Conner, at about 6 a.m., Detroit Fire Department Senior Chief Larry Gassel said ...

  • Port Huron woman to be arraigned today in fake rape case

    Sara Ylen, 38, who gained sympathy after a 2002 rape and then rallied people when her cancer diagnosis became pubic, faces fraud charges after state police found no doctor who diagnosed cancer. / Wendy Torello/Times ...

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