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  • As Detroit sinks deeper into debt entrepreneurs offer hope

    Despite the gloom and doom, there are a number of innovative companies expanding in the area, sparking hope of economic recovery. The D-Hive puts on events such as this Failure Fest which gives entrepreneurs a chance to hear stories of failures from currently successful business people in Detroit on March 18, 2013. (Deborah Baic/The Globe and ...

  • Jury cant reach verdict in Detroit cops trial

    Detroit Police Officer Joseph Weekley testifies during his trial on charges of involuntary manslaughter and careless discharge of a firearm causing death, in Wayne County Circuit Court in Detroit, Mich., on Thursday, June 13, 2013. Weekley is charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones. She was killed during a chaotic police raid to find a murder suspect at a ...

  • Red Wings Make Risky Gamble With Pavel Datsyuk Extension

    Pavel Datsyuk has signed an extension that will keep him in Detroit through 2016-17. Pavel Datsyuk is one of the NHL's most exciting players and, I would argue, the league's best offensive talent over the last decade. The Red Wings seem to agree, as it was announced today that they have rewarded the Russian center with a three-year, $22.5 million extension that will keep him in ...

  • State Senate OKs $1 surcharge on electric bills to help poor

    A $50 million fund to help low-income Michiganders keep their heat on in the winter received final passage in the state Senate Thursday.By a vote of 34-4, the Senate concurred in changes made to the bill in the House of Representatives last week. The bill now moves to Gov. Rick Snyder, who is on a trade mission to Israel this week, for his signature.The fund would be fueled by a monthly ...

  • Chrysler reaches agreement with NHTSA issues recall for 2.7 million Jeep SUVs

    A Chrysler Dodge pick-up truck drives past the headquarters of Chrysler LLC in Auburn Hills, Michigan, U.S., on Thursday, April 30, 2009. / Jeff Kowalsky/Bloomberg ...


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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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  • Johnson Controls weighs sale of automotive electronics unit

    Johnson Controls, which is trying to sell its automotive electronics business, has opened talks with private equity firms after other suppliers expressed interest in parts but no the entire unit.The Milwaukee-based company, which announced earlier this year that it would seek to divest the business, could still sell pieces of its electronics business to other suppliers. Most of the the ...

  • Jimmy Hoffa flashback 2004 Was Hoffa killed inside northwest Detroit home

    Editor's note: This story first ran in the Detroit Free Press on May 29, 2004.A deathbed confession by a Pennsylvania Teamsters official and scientific tests that may have detected blood in a house in northwest Detroit could help authorities solve the 1975 disappearance of Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa. Or, maybe not. A biography due in bookstores Tuesday says Frank (The Irishman) Sheeran ...

  • Jeff Seidel Detroit Tigers Max Scherzer shows all his talent strength

    Detroit Tigers Max Scherzer after not getting a strike call to run the count fall with two outs in the fifth inning with Baltimore Orioles Chris Davis at bat in Detroit on Monday June 17, 2013. Julian H. Gonzalez /Detroit Free Press / Julian H. ...

  • Illegal scrapping bills scrapped for now

    LANSING — A package of bills strengthening laws against illegal scrapping of metal and the junk yards that buy the materials are going back to the drawing boards.A work group toiled for 18 months on the bills that would require scrap yards to take photos of the scrap metals ...

  • Transcript of chat with U-M kicker J.J. McGrath

    J.J. McGrath, who is graduating from Macomb Lutheran North and headed to kick at Michigan this fall, will be here at noon to answer your questions about himself, U-M, the upcoming MHSFCA East-West all-star game in which he's playing and more. What would you like to ...

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