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  • Detroit girl 3 returned to family after overnight search

    Detroit - A 3-year-old girl taken by an unknown man while her mother was allegedly being assaulted by her father has been released to relatives. Police said the girl's father, Stacey Anderson, 29, gave the girl, Alonna Anderson, to family at 7:15 a.m. Monday at Grand River and Lahser. The child was unharmed. An Amber Alert was issued late Sunday night for Alonna, who was at her home in the ...

  • Michigan gas prices rise 10 cents over past week

    AAA Michigan says gasoline prices have risen about 10 cents during the past week to a statewide average of about $3.88 per gallon.Michigan joins the rest of the country in reporting price jumps in the past week.The Lundberg Survey of fuel prices released Sunday says the price of a gallon of regular is $3.66 nationally.Of the cities surveyed in the lower 48 states, Tucson, Ariz., has the ...

  • Billboard awards put on one impressive Vegas show

    Quick, name a Billboard Music Award winner. Yeah, we'd be hard-pressed to do it, too. As with most such shows, it's the performances that get people talking. USA TODAY recaps Sunday night's musical numbers.* * * * (out of ...

  • Are SPF ratings on sunscreen just a gimmick

    Sunbathers headed to the beach this summer will find new sunscreen labels on store shelves that are designed to make the products more effective and easier to use. But despite those long-awaited changes, many sunscreens continue to carry SPF ratings that some experts consider misleading and potentially dangerous, according to a consumer watchdog group.A survey of 1,400 sunscreen products by the ...

  • I-75 in Troy reopens after closure from semi-truck fire

    Truck fire closes I-75 in Troy: A truck carrying toilet paper and paper towels caught fire in Troy early today, closing the northbound lanes north of 14 Mile Road. Tammy Stables ...


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Movie Review

My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund) [DVD]

My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund) [DVD]

Coming-of-age stories are always tricky, bordering as they do on triviality and tunnel-vision melodrama, which is what makes Lasse Hallstrms My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv son hund) all the more astonishing. Taking place in Sweden in the late 1950s, it chronicles a year in the life of precocious 12-year-old Ingemar (Anton Glanzelius), who is sent to live with his relatives in an eccentr ... ...

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  • Technology upgrades among big-ticket items in school elections

    Deamarian Johnson, 13, checks out a new Google Chromebook at the East Middle School library in Plymouth. A proposal would give all students a digital device. / Mandi Wright/Detroit Free ...

  • City of Detroit furlough day Monday

    SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (WXYZ) - Some of Detroit's city offices will be closed Monday, May 20, because of a budget required furlough day. These offices include: Board of ...

  • Detroit house party turns violent with four shot

    Detroit - An all-night house party erupted into violence over the weekend when four men were struck by gunfire as a minivan passed by, police said. The men were standing outside a home on the 11900 block of Lakepointe about 4:30 a.m. Sunday when a suspect in a dark-colored Pontiac opened fire, striking them, according to Detroit police. A woman, 25, tried to drive the victims - 18, 22, 27 and 30 ...

  • Police Woman apparently beat boyfriend to death in Jackson

    Jackson - Police say a woman apparently beat her 38-year-old boyfriend to death at the southern Michigan apartment building where they lived. WLNS-TV and the Jackson Citizen Patriot report police were called to the apartment early Saturday and were told that a man was bleeding. Police say the man is believed to have been beaten with multiple blunt objects, and he was dead by the time they ...

  • Decommissioned Coast Guard ship set for reopening

    Port Huron - A decommissioned U.S. Coast Guard ship that was sold to a private owner by the Port Huron Museum is being reopened to the public. A Friday ceremony at the 180-foot Bramble at Seaway Terminal Bean Dock will be the first public viewing of the vessel since it was sold in January to Robert Klingler of Marine City. The Times Herald of Port Huron reports the Memorial Day weekend ceremony ...

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