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  • CEO General Motors will soon rejoin SP 500

    He spoke to business graduates at Notre Dame General Motors is still in the "early innings" of its recovery, but it won't be long before it rejoins the S&P 500 largest companies and gets its bond rating back to investment grade, GM CEO Dan Akerson said Saturday.Speaking at the commencement for business graduates at Notre Dame, Akerson noted GM's 13 consecutive profitable ...

  • Thousands attend Race for the Cure in Detroit

    Saturday's event raised funds in the fight against breast cancer. It featured a 5K run/walk and a one-mile walk. The Komen race honors those who have fought breast cancer as well as their families and friends. Attendees gathered near the Detroit Tigers' ballpark downtown in a sea of pink. The color represents breast cancer awareness. Mayor Dave Bing was on hand and said ...

  • Guns traded in for grocery gift cards

    Detroit - The Wayne County Executive's Office and the Sheriff's Department came together Saturday to hold a gun buyback on the city's west side. The goal was to encourage people who no longer want their firearms to turn them in no questions asked. "One thing we know is these guns here will never hurt anybody again," said Sheriff Benny Napoleon. It was a bloody week for ...

  • Lions Tulloch thankful to be named among NFLs top 100

    In this Oct. 10, 2011, file photo, Detroit Lions linebacker Stephen Tulloch celebrates after breaking up a pass by Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler. / Associated ...

  • Novi infant found unresponsive on Mothers Day autopsy planned

    Jerrod Hart said today that a call came in from a home in the Novi Meadows trailer park off Napier near 12 Mile just after 3 p.m. Sunday. The family reported their 7-month-old daughter was ...


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Movie Review

Stray Dog (Nora inu) [DVD]

Stray Dog (Nora inu) [DVD]

Stray Dog (Nora inu) was Akira Kurosawas ninth film as a director, and it marked the first time in which he truly branched out beyond simple genre material. In a sense, Stray Dog is very much a genre filma straightforward police procedural with hints of American-influenced ... ...

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  • Birmingham teacher Harry Berkowitz shot at least 3 times sources say

    Neighbor is shocked by death of Harry Berkowitz: Nancy Katzman, 52, and other neighbors said they were shocked to learn of the death of Harry Berkowitz in ...

  • Powerball jackpot at $600M Mega Millions jackpot won

    Powerball hopefuls have secret to winning: As the Powerball jackpot climbs, hopefuls flock to the store to buy tickets, each one claiming they have the secret to winning it ...

  • Fed up with frugality more Americans eating drinking out

    Americans seem to be fed up with frugality.As the recession ever so slowly recedes, an increasing number of Americans say they are less frugal than they were a few years ago. At the same time, sales at restaurants are at an all-time high and at least one survey says consumers expect to spend more eating out as soon as their pocketbooks allow.Sales at eating and drinking places in April reached ...

  • Michigan man drove farm tractor drunk sheriff says

    Sheriff's deputies arrested a southwestern Michigan man after finding him driving a farm tractor on a county road while drunk.The Van Buren County sheriff's office says the 49-year-old Paw Paw man was taken into custody around 5 p.m. on Friday in Decatur Township.The deputies spotted the man driving the John Deere tractor in both the northbound and southbound lanes of County Road ...

  • A three-storey mound of Canada’s oil waste grows in Detroit

    A three-story pile of petroleum coke along the Detroit River in Windsor, Ont., on April 20, 2013. Residents on both sides of the river are concerned that the coke mountain is both an environmental threat and an eyesore. (FABRIZIO ...

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