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  • General Motors recalls 231000 SUVs over fire risk

    US General Motors Co. is set to recall about 231,000 older SUVs over fire risks and has urged owners to park them outside garages until they are repaired, a media report said. The Detroit-based automaker agreed to recall 193,000 2006-2007 Chevrolet Trailblazer, GMC Envoy, Buick Rainier, SAAB 9-7x, Isuzu Ascender and 2006 Chevrolet Trailblazer EXT and GMC Envoy XL in the US, reported ...

  • Ventura buys Kellogg Park in hopes of securing $1 million grant

    The Ventura City Council approved buying the Kellogg Street property completely, even though it had been initially approved as a joint purchase between the city and Trust for Public Land. The move enables the site to be eligible for significant ...

  • Woman charged with killing mom dumping body at store

    The body was discovered behind a Goodwill Industries store in Port Huron Township in March. Police said the body had been there for more than a week because it was concealed by snow and covered with ...

  • Detroit Red Wings announce plans for new arena

    The Detroit Red Wings and city officials have announced a $650 million US plan for a new arena for the NHL team in Detroit's downtown entertainment and sports district. Plans for the 18,000-seat arena were announced Wednesday at a meeting of economic development officials to approve the deal. Red Wings owner Mike Ilitch has long said he wanted a replacement for the 32-year-old Joe Louis ...

  • FBI says it found no sign of remains of ex-union boss Jimmy Hoffa in suburban Detroit

    Members of an FBI evidence response team look over an area being cleared in Oakland Township, Mich., Tuesday, June 18, 2013 where officials continue the search for the remains of Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared from a Detroit-area restaurant in 1975. (AP Photo/Carlos ...


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The Help [Blu-Ray]

The Help [Blu-Ray]

Set in Jackson, Mississippi, in the early, pre-Civil Rights years of the 1960s, The Help largely succeeds in finding good ol fashioned entertainment value heavily laced with social uplift in its tale of a young white woman who wants to blow the lid off generations-old institutionalized raci ... ...

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  • EAA says its out of the woods financially

    The Education Achievement Authority has paid off a $5.1-million loan early and will propose a $92.2-million general fund budget for the new fiscal year, officials announced today.The EAA, which was established to take over and turn around schools that perform among the lowest 5% in the state and now runs 15 schools in Detroit, ended its first fiscal ...

  • LIVE Detroit DDA discussing new arena

    DETROIT (WXYZ) - A vote passed unanimously to move forward with plans for an Entertainment District that would include a new Red Wings arena in the city of Detroit. This puts the proposal one step closer to reality. The deal is not yet ...

  • Detroits DDA discusses $650M arena entertainment district

    Detroit A planned $650 million Red Wings hockey arena and entertainment district is being discussed by the ...

  • Michigan Senate approves off-road vehicles on more roadways

    LANSING — Off-road vehicle drivers will have their horizons expanded after the state Senate voted 27-11 to let ORVs on the shoulders of some maintained roads across the state.Currently, ORVs can drive on the shoulders in only eight counties in the Lower Peninsula and the entire Upper Peninsula.But the bill would allow shoulder driving if the county, township, or municipal units of ...

  • Wooden beam could be detached part of Griffin shipwreck

    In this photo made June 16, 2013, and provided by Great Lakes Exploation Group, diver Jim Nowka of Great Lakes Exploration Group inspects a wooden beam extending from the floor of Lake Michigan that experts believe may be part of the Griffin, a ship that sank in 1679. Crews are digging a pit at the base of the beam to see if it's attached to a buried ship. (AP Photo/David J. Ruck, Great ...

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