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  • Cost of digging for Jimmy Hoffa

    WITHDRAW LEAVES 14 CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR MAYOR IN THE AUGUST PRIMARY. DEVIN? Devin: A LOT OF MANPOWER, K-9 UNITS AND HEAVY EQUIPMENT JUST WENT INTO A THREE-DAY SEARCH FOR JIMMY HOFFA'S REMAINS IN OAKLAND TOWNSHIP. AND FEDERAL AGENTS CALLED OFF THE OPERATION TODAY AFTER COMING UP EMPTY AGAIN AND HAS A LOT OF PEOPLE WONDERING WAS IT ALL WORTH THE COST? KEVIN DIETZ JOINS US WITH EXACTLY WHAT ...

  • Mike Duggan I only blame myself

    MUCH MORE ON THIS DEVELOPMENT OVER THE NEXT 90 MINUTES OF NEWS. CARMEN? Carmen: DID DITCHING HIS DREAMS OF BECOMING THE NEXT MAYOR OF DETROIT, MIKE DUGGAN OFFICIALLY DROPPED OUT OF THE RACE TODAY FOLLOWING DECISIONS BY TWO DIFFERENT COURTS. OUR ROGER WEBER JOINS US NOW AND HAS BEEN COVERING THIS STORY FOR US. I LISTENED TO HIS REMARKS EARLIER BUT DIDN'T HAVE MUCH OF A CHOICE, DID HE? Roger: ...

  • Meloni For all of Detroits troubles a glimmer of hope

    At the Automotive Press Association Luncheon [where I am a board member] J.D. Power and Associates made an announcement so stunning I thought I had been doused with a Gatorade bucket full of ice water. Uneventfully tucked away in a top 10 list of its initial quality list for 2013, J.D. Power's David Sargent unveiled not one but TWO General Motors brands cracking the top five. GMC was 2nd in ...

  • GM leads in J.D. Power initial quality study as tech features draw mixed reviews

    Four years after its traumatic bankruptcy, General Motors posted the strongest initial quality marks of all major automakers in a widely followed survey of new vehicle buyers in the U.S.GMC ranked second among 33 brands and Chevrolet, Cadillac and Buick all did better than the industry average in J.D. ...

  • Blog replay Opening statements for Mitchell Young in Cipriano murder case

    Opening statements are set to begin this afternoon in the murder trial of Mitchell Young, charged with killing a Farmington Hills man with a baseball bat and nearly killing the ...


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The Help [Blu-Ray]

The Help [Blu-Ray]

Set in Jackson, Mississippi, in the early, pre-Civil Rights years of the 1960s, The Help largely succeeds in finding good ol fashioned entertainment value heavily laced with social uplift in its tale of a young white woman who wants to blow the lid off generations-old institutionalized raci ... ...

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  • Judge rules communities can capture Detroit Zoo DIA millage dollars

    The Detroit Institute of Arts and the Detroit Zoo lost a round in court this week when a judge ruled that local communities can capture part of their revenue for things like fancy streetlights, decorative pavers and other improvements in their downtown districts.Wayne County Circuit Judge Daniel Ryan ruled Wednesday that the communities were within their rights when they took the money under ...

  • Center Red Wings arena planned for north end of downtown

    BUILT ON THIS LAND, A GLIMMER OF HOPE IN A CITY CLOUDED BY CRISIS. GOOD EVENING! IT'S TALKED ABOUT AND TALKED ABOUT AND NO LONG AREA DREAM. IT WILL BE BUILT. Devin: IT WILL BRING THOUSANDS OF NEW JOBS TO THE AREA. THE PROPOSED SITE FOR THE STADIUM IS ON THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF WOODWARD AVENUE AND I-75, NORTH OF HOCKEYTOWN, KITTY CORNER TO COMERICA PARK. AND IT WILL BECOME BIG NEWS, STEVE. ...

  • Wayne County jail project was $50M over budget in December

    Recent meetings -- and a couple before that -- were cancelled by Wayne County Executive Bob Ficano's administration. On Wednesday, county project manager Bob Newton told the Building Authority for the first time that he knew the jail construction project was $50 million over budget back in ...

  • MLB Baltimore 13 Detroit 3

    Chris Davis bashed his major league-leading 25th and 26th homers Wednesday, powering the Baltimore Orioles' 13-3 bashing of Detroit. Davis (3-for-5) unleashed a two-run blast in the fourth inning, triggering a six-run outburst that broke open the game, and added a two-run homer in the ninth to cap Baltimore's 17-hit attack. In ...

  • Senate OKs $4M to test thousands of backlogged rape kits

    LANSING — A $4 million infusion of cash to clear up a backlog of thousands of rape kits that need to be tested was one of many items included in a supplemental budget bill approved by the state Senate Wednesday.More than 11,000 kits were found in 2009 in a Detroit police property storage room, and represent evidence in rape investigations in the city dating back 25 years.The $4 million ...

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