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  • Eastern Michigan boosts tuition 3.75 Michigan State considers 2.8 hike

    Resident undergraduates at Eastern Michigan University will pay 3.75 percent more in tuition for 2013-14, while students at Michigan State University could see a tuition increase that averages 2.8 percent. The new EMU tuition rates were announced Tuesday after the ...

  • Why do the sirens sound if theres no tornado warning

    Monday afternoon and evening, several severe thunderstorm warnings were issued by the National Weather Service, and some of you heard your tornado sirens sound, even though there was no tornado warning. What ...

  • A city up in smoke The arson epidemic plaguing Detroit

    middle class . in a city where population and wages are in decline and joblessness is high, it's led to more than 80,000 homes being abandoned and that has led to a rash of ...

  • Pedestrian 24 killed crossing Oxford Township Road.

    A 24-year-old pedestrian died Thursday when he was struck while crossing Lapeer road in Oxford Township.A 28-year-old Ortonville man was driving a 2004 Kia Sorento northbound on Lapeer Rd when he struck the Oxford Township man, according to the Oakland County ...

  • Datsyuk Red Wings agree on $22.5M 3-year deal

    FILE - In this March 24, 2013 file photo, Detroit Red Wings center Pavel Datsyuk, of Russia, skates with the puck during the first period of their NHL hockey game against the Anaheim Ducks in Anaheim, Calif. Datsyuk and the Red Wings have an agreement on a three-year contract. The Red Wings said Tuesday, June 18, 2013, they had agreed to terms on a deal to keep Datsyuk through the 2016-17 ...


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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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  • Why Detroits art must stay

    Let me clear this up so that Donn Zaretsky can have no doubt. When I say that the Michigan attorney general is "absolutely right" that the art collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts cannot be sold to satisfy the city's financial obligations, I mean that he's right both legally and normatively. Zaretsky is a longstanding critic of the laws and norms surrounding ...

  • State appeals court keeps Mike Duggan off Detroit mayoral ballot

    A three-member panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld an earlier decision last week that removed Detroit mayoral candidate Mike Duggan from the Aug. 6 ballot. (Dale G. Young/The Detroit ...

  • Judge declares mistrial in case of Detroit cop accused in Aiyanas death

    Detroit Police Officer Joseph Weekley on Tuesday as Wayne Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Gray instructs jurors to continue their deliberations. (John T. Greilick/The Detroit ...

  • 2 rescued from Lake St. Clair after storm capsizes boat

    911 call from Madison Heights couple rescued from ...: 911 call from Madison Heights couple rescued from Lake St. Clair Monday evening after their fishing boat was swamped by a large wave cause by a storm ...

  • Help a local teacher who is battling cancer

    Currently, he is seeking acceptance to a clinical trial in Bethesda, Maryland. His oncologist refers to this as "The Miracle He Has Been Waiting For." But, his family needs help covering their medical ...

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