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  • Gov. Snyder to visit Israel on trade mission in June

    Washington - Gov. Rick Snyder will travel to Israel in June in the latest of a series of trade missions designed to boost Michigan exports. "Gov. Snyder is indeed planning a trip to Israel in June, though we're not in a position to share details yet," spokeswoman Sara Wurfel said. Michigan exported $117 million in goods to Israel in 2012, the 19th most, and nearly $1.5 billion ...

  • Communities set to battle mosquitoes

    THE HOME PAGE OF OUR WEBSITE. GOGO TO CLICKONDETROIT.COM. WELL, ASSIGN OF THESE GUYS MAY MAKE YOU ITCHY. COMMUNITIES TAKING ACTION TO PREVENT MOSQUITOES FROM INVADING. BISI ONILE-ERE IS IN WARREN. AND CONCERN IS WEST NILE VIRUS? DEVIN, PEOPLE HAVE DIED AFTER CONTRACTING WEST NILE VIRUS FROM MOSQUITOES. SO CITIES ARE TAKING IT SERIOUSLY. A COUPLE OF WEEKS THE CITY OF WARREN WILL BEGIN TO TARGET ...

  • Court for man accused in girlfriends window fall

    ROYAL OAK TOWNSHIP — A judge has set a $765,000 bond for a suburban Detroit man ...

  • Farrakhan Kilpatricks sins would have been forgiven in white politicians

    Speaking in a Detroit church Friday night, Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam said that he plans to visit former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in prison Saturday as he tried to portray him as a victim of white ...

  • Widespread power outages in Wayne Oakland counties after storms

    Detroit - Heavy storms that blew through Metro Detroit on Wednesday left thousands without power. About 16,000 homes, mostly in Wayne and Oakland counties, were without power Wednesday night, said DTE Energy spokeswoman Erica Donerson. "Most of them are storm-related," she said. "We don't have any restoration times yet, because the outages are so widespread." Check back ...


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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1

If it could be justified for a certain boy wizard, then surely it could be justified for a teenage vampire lover--or so I imagine the boardroom discussion went when deciding to split the adaptation of the fourth and final volume of Stephanie Meyers imm ... ...

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  • U-M doctors use 3D printer to create airway implant for baby

    University of Michigan researchers have used a 3D printer to create a custom-made, life-saving implant for a baby boy, they reported today in a letter in the New England Journal of Medicine.The baby, Kaiba Gionfriddo, had a rare disorder in which one of the airways in his lungs collapsed when he exhaled. The problem caused him to stop breathing and turn blue when he was 6 weeks old. Even with a ...

  • Gary Peters urges probe of Detroit oil waste storage

    Michigan U.S. Rep. Gary Peters has taken to the House floor to criticize the storage of piles of an oil-refining byproduct known as petroleum coke along the Detroit ...

  • Deflecting Pressure Jimmy Howard Gives Red Wings a Boost

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  • Detroit mayoral candidates push to have competitors tossed from ballot

    Labor activist Robert Davis urged the state's top elections official to step in on a controversy over whether Mike Duggan was a Detroit resident long enough when he filed to become an official candidate. / Patricia Beck/Detroit Free ...

  • Catholic archdiocese appoints new superintendent of its 96 schools

    Detroit-area Catholic schools are getting a new superintendent.Brian Dougherty, who resigned Friday as superintendent from the cash-strapped Pontiac public schools, was appointed Wednesday by Archbishop Allen Vigneron to oversee 96 grade schools and high schools in Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Monroe, St. Clair and Lapeer counties.Dougherty of Lake Orion was once a Catholic school teacher and ...

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