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  • GM announces internship program for 110 Detroit area students

    GM hired high school students from 11 high schools to help spruce up the city. The 110 students are planning service work type projects that include cleaning up the city, planting gardens and setting up food banks. The schools on the roster are the United Way Network of Excellence schools. For the schools involved, it is probably a dream come true. Not only do the students get paid, they also ...

  • Lawyer Ex-Mich. Supreme Court Justice Hathaway shouldnt go to jail

    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. Hathaway pleaded guilty in January to one count of felony bank fraud, eight days after she left the bench in the biggest scandal to ...

  • Red Wings pregame Brunner may be more clued in than teammates think

    Detroit Red Wings' Damien Brunner looks up at the scoreboard after Chicago Blackhawks' Marcus Kruger scored during the third period of Game 1. / Associated ...

  • Upbeat Bing tees up more business help for recreation and police fire

    Detroit Mayor Dave Bing said Monday that his Active and Safe Campaign has already raised $24 million of its $60-million three-year target to support public safety and recreational programs, and that another major donation will be announced in the next week or ...

  • Oakland County vows to take fight real estate tranfer tax fight to Supreme Court

    Oakland County is vowing to take its fight against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to the U.S. Supreme Court in an effort to get millions in real estate transfer taxes from the mortgage giants.The county was dealt a blow in the battle Monday when a federal appellate court tossed out its lawsuit seeking $12 million in unpaid real estate transfer taxes. The county says ...

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Escape From New York [Blu-Ray]

Escape From New York [Blu-Ray]

There has always been a sense of dystopianism and apocalyptic anxiety in the science fiction genre, and the 1970s--with its worldwide recession, oil shortages, Vietnam conflict, and ever-present tensions between the capitalist West and communist East--helped fuel a special ... ...

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  • Who wants to be Detroit mayor 22 candidates do

    In announcing he won't seek a second term, Mayor Dave Bing slammed Michigan officials for ceding most of his power to an emergency manager who currently controls almost every aspect of City Hall, from spending to hiring.That arrangement, coupled with a stubbornly high crime rate, blighted neighborhoods and a financial crisis that has pushed Detroit toward bankruptcy, raised an obvious ...

  • Pfizer halts study of lymphoma drug unlikely to help survival

    Pfizer Inc , which has been on a hot streak with three recent approvals of cancer drugs, stumbled on Monday, saying it was halting a late-stage trial of a drug ...

  • Anti-violence marchers aid man stabbed along route

    A 61-year-old man was fighting with his alleged assailant before he was stabbed around 6:20 p.m. The assailant then fled on a bicycle, police spokeswoman Officer Eren Stephens said in an email. She said the victim was in good ...

  • Ray Manzarek founding member of The Doors dies

    Ray Manzarek of The Doors performs at the Sunset Strip Music Festival launch party celebrating The Doors at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, Calif., on Aug. 16, ...

  • After another win Indians may be a real challenge to Tigers this time

    Cleveland Indians' Yan Gomes is congratulated by teammates after hitting a game-winning three-run home run off Seattle Mariners relief pitcher Charlie Furbush in the 10th inning of a baseball game, Monday, May 20, 2013, in Cleveland. Michael Brantley and Drew Stubbs scored. The Indians won 10-8 in 10 innings. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak) / ...

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