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  • Emergency financial manager considers selling off Detroit Institute of Arts collection

    The Woodward Avenue faade of the Detroit Institute of Arts Detroit's unelected emergency financial manager, Kevyn Orr, has asked for an appraisal of the collection held by the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) to determine whether the city could sell off the art works to help pay off Detroit's $15 billion in long-term debt. This outright provocation comes in the wake of Orr's ...

  • Lockdown lifted at 3 Allen Park schools

    Allen Park Middle School, Lindemann Elementary and Riley Education Center were put on lockdown as a precautionary measure. The lockdown was lifted at 1:30 ...

  • Detroit bankruptcy could make DIA artworks vulnerable

    TO CLICKONDETROIT.COM AND CLICKING ON THE WEATHER TAB.8+f WELL, DETROIT'S EMERGENCY MANAGER HAS ALERTED THE DIA THAT COLLECTION WOULD HANG IN THE BALANCE IF THE CITY HAS NO ALTERNATIVE BY A CHAPTER 9 BANKRUPTCY FILING. TONIGHT THE MUSEUM SAYS THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN BUT DID THEY MISS A CHANCE TO MAKE SURE IT WOULDN'T HAPPEN. LET'S GO TO MARA McDONALD TONIGHT. NO ONE WANTS ...

  • MLB Detroit 6 Minnesota 0

    Anibal Sanchez came within two outs of throwing the year's first no-hitter in the major leagues Friday, carrying Detroit to a 6-0 win over ...

  • Thieves swipe large bell from historic Detroit church

    Dennis Felcyn and his son walked the grounds of Sweetest Heart of Mary parish in Detroit on Friday morning, collecting paper scraps and other bits of trash before they mowed the lawn.Felcyn spotted a pair of bolt cutters on the ground. Then, a lock.He looked to his left, and saw that the brick and concrete platform that held a piece of the ...


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Space Jam

As we drove home from the theater, a friend and I were having a heated discussion about the merits of the new Michael Jordan movie "Space Jam." Personally, I hated it. I saw it as shameless attempt by Warner Brothers to ransack the Looney Tunes by ripping them out of their environment and dropping them in the middle of a computerized live action/animation film whose main purposes is to advertise ... ...

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  • Kid Rock says hes in the scalping business just like many other artists

    NEW YORK — Kid Rock is a scalper.The 42-year-old Grammy winner, who is launching a summer tour where most tickets are priced at $20, said ...

  • Dow Chemical to Pay Off Up to $2 Billion of Debt

    The Dow Chemical Co. said Friday that it plans to use part of its recent payment from Petrochemical Industries Co. of Kuwait to pay off up to $2 billion in debt this year. Earlier this month, Dow received $2.2 billion from that company to cover damages stemming from its 2008 withdrawal from a $17.4 billion joint venture with Dow days before it was set to launch. The Midland, Mich.-based chemical ...

  • Dearborn pays $300000 in deal with missionaries

    The city of Dearborn has paid $300,000 to several Christian demonstrators as part of settlement over their arrests at the Arab International Festival in 2010, according to documents obtained by The Detroit News. Officials initially did not disclose the amount when the deal with Nabeel Qureshi, David Wood and Paul Rezkalla was announced this month. The News filed a Freedom of Information Act with ...

  • HEADED FOR AUCTIONDetroit Museums Art May Be Sold to Cover City Debts

    Could the Detroit Institute of Arts' billion dollar collection, including works by Van Gogh, Picasso and Matisse, be headed for the auction block to satisfy creditors of the financially troubled city? Bill Nowling, a spokesman for state-appointed emergency manager Kevyn Orr, ...

  • 17 rescued dogs recovering at Rochester Hills shelter

    Michigan Humane Society Rochester Hills Center for Animal Care Shelter Manager Marcelena Mace plays with one of the rescued dogs from an alleged puppy mill in Missaukee before taking it to be examined by a doctor on Friday, May 23, 2013 in Rochester Hills. / Jarrad Henderson/Detroit Free ...

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