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  • World Bank UN chiefs to visit African Great Lakes region

    The World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim, and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will make a joint visit to Africa's Great Lakes region, a World Bank statement said Monday. The visit is to be undertaken in support of a landmark peace agreement and to push for economic development in the troubled region. "The visit will draw attention to the plight of fragile and conflict-affected countries ...

  • NHL Detroit Red Wings down Chicago Blackhawks for 2-1 lead

    NHL Western Conference semi-final series with a 3-1 win over the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3 on Monday. After squaring the best-of-seven series in Chicago on Saturday, the Red Wings maintained the momentum on home ice to beat the top-seeded Blackhawks and move ahead 2-1 in the series. Game 4 is on Thursday, again in Detroit. Red Wings goaltender Jimmy Howard weathered an early storm, making ...

  • Red Wings earn series lead

    The Detroit Red Wings took a 2-1 lead in their Western Conference semi-final series over the Chicago Blackhawks in the NHL on Monday.The Red Wings scored twice in the space of 31 seconds in the second period at the Joe Louis Arena, opening up what proved to be a match-winning buffer.Rookie Gustav Nyquist and Drew Miller were credited with the goals that put Detroit 2-0 up in the match on home ...

  • Hathaway lawyer pleads case to keep her out of prison feds want her to serve 12-18 months

    Detroit - Former Michigan Supreme Court Justice Diane Hathaway shouldn't spend a day in federal prison, her lawyer said Monday, despite admitting she orchestrated an elaborate two-year scheme to defraud her bank of $600,000 owed on a Grosse Pointe Park home. Defense lawyer Steve Fishman argued the loss was less than $70,000 and urged U.S. District Judge John Corbett O'Meara to keep ...

  • Detroit state reps unveil no-fault auto insurance reform plan

    Detroit - The city's nine Democratic state House members announced an auto insurance reform package Monday that seeks to drive down the rates Detroiters pay as well as make public information from a $14 billion fund for catastrophic accident claims. The bills, still in draft form, would restructure the Michigan Catastrophic Claims Association to force it to hold open meetings, be subject to ...

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Vacancy [DVD]

Vacancy [DVD]

Vacancy is a nastily effective, rough-edged gem of a horror-thriller. Like the sputtering neon sign evoked in its advertising campaign, you keep expecting that it will peter out, but somehow it stays burning right up until the unexpectedly abrupt, yet entirely appropriate ending ... ...

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  • Senators Require fingerprinting of foreigners at 30 airports

    Washington -Foreigners leaving the country through any of the nation's 30 busiest airports would undergo mandatory fingerprinting under an amendment senators added Monday to a sweeping immigration bill. Lawmakers called it a step toward a more expansive biometric system that would use identifiers such as fingerprints to keep track of immigrants and visitors exiting the U.S. Currently no ...

  • Obama aides knew of IRS audit say he wasnt told

    Washington - White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and other senior advisers knew in late April an impending report was likely to say the IRS had inappropriately targeted conservative groups, President Barack Obama's spokesman disclosed Monday, expanding the circle of top officials who knew of the audit beyond those named earlier. But McDonough and the other advisers did not tell ...

  • Peters names campaign manager for Senate bid

    Washington - Rep. Gary Peters is kick-starting his bid to become Michigan's next U.S. senator by assembling his campaign leadership with no Republican yet stepping forward to challenge the Oakland County Democrat. Peters campaign, a third-term congressman from Bloomfield Township, announced today he tapped his first congressional campaign manager to run his bid for Senate in 2014. Julie ...

  • Disciplined Detroit in Blackhawks heads

    There was a script going around before this series that had the top-ranked Chicago Blackhawks rolling over the underdog Detroit Red Wings. Apparently Mike Babcock’s crew decided that script needed a few revisions. The Wings asserted their physical dominance early then got goals 31 seconds apart in the second period from Gustav Nyquist and Drew Miller and a third-period dagger from Pavel ...

  • Stanley Cup Stories Red Wings put on show in Motown

    Al Sobotka of the Detroit Red Wings gets the crowd going by spinning an octopus over his head prior to the Red Wings playing the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3 on Monday. (Gregory Shamus/Getty ...

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