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  • Onlookers call search for Hoffa a waste of time

    A man who identified himself only as a forty-year-old man from Lake Orion with the name 'Mr. Ed', appeared at the site to mock the scene and protest the waste of resources. (David Guralnick/The Detroit ...

  • Opening statements start Wednesday in Mitchell Young trial

    Opening statements start Wednesday in the trial for a man charged with 1st degree murder in the April 2012 baseball beatings at a Farmington Hills family's ...

  • Boaters trapped in storm call 911 from Lake St. Clair

    PICTURES, VIDEO AND A LOOK BACK AT THE INVESTIGATION. MONDAY, FOR DETROIT. HIGH WINDS KNOCKED DOWNED POWER LINES, SMALL TREES. BUT ALSO CAUSED BIG PROBLEMS ON THE WATER FOR ONE COUPLE. STEVE GARAGIOLA JOINS US LIVE. STEVE, BIG WAVE LEFT THEM WITH A SERIOUS SITUATION ON THEIR HANDS? BOY, IT SURE DID. IT GOT WILD OUT THERE ON THE LAKE. THIS WAS THE BOAT. OUT THERE THIS AFTERNOON. THIS IS A PERFECT ...

  • NHL notebook Datsyuk Red Wings reach deal

    Pavel Datsyuk and the Red Wings agreed on a three-year contract, which keeps the Russian superstar through the 2016-17 season. He can't sign the contract until July 5 because he was entering the last year of his current deal. The extension is worth $22.5 million total, with a cap hit of $7.5 million ...

  • Editorial In disqualifying Mike Duggan judges disenfranchise Detroit voters

    Mike Duggan submitted his petitions to run for Detroit mayor too early, an appeals court ruled Tuesday, meaning he is ineligible to be on the ballot. / Carlos Osorio/Associated ...


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Movie Review

Where the Heart Is [DVD]

Where the Heart Is [DVD]

"Where the Heart Is" is a shamelessly contrived melodrama with so many bizarre plot twists and tragic occurrences--desertion, child abuse, child kidnapping, a killer tornado, insanity, alcoholism, a character 's legs being cut off by a train--that it could conceivably rank up there with the ultimate of all high-pitched melodramas, "Kings Row" (1942), which also plays like a laundry list of terrib ... ...

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