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General Motors and Deloitte Touche in $303 million securities class action

A securities class action brought against General Motors (GM) by German’s DekaBank has led to a cash settlement of $277 million. In one of the biggest shareholder recoveries of 2008, the settlement will be paid to shareholders following an alleged misstatement of the auto company’s financials dating back to 2000. GM’s outside auditor, Deloitte & Touche, is ...
Union of Concerned Scientists Northwest Airlines Asks Clear Channel to Pull Science Groups Anti-Nuclear-Weapons Ad in Minneapolis Airport

Billboard Calls for Sen. McCain to 'Get Serious' About Reducing the Threat of Nuclear Weapons WASHINGTON - August 19 - Northwest, the official airline of the Republican National Convention, has taken on a new role of censor. Yesterday it asked Clear Channel Communications to remove a Union of Concerned Scientists' (UCS) anti-nuclear-weapons billboard in the Minneapolis airport ...
ACLU Oral Arguments to Be Delivered Friday in Lawsuit Against Michigan Department of Corrections

ACLU Says Inadequate Health Care Puts Prisoners Lives at Risk GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan - August 7 - Two years after a 21-year-old man died in a Michigan prison because of a lack of medical and mental health care, the American Civil Liberties Union will deliver final arguments Friday in a lawsuit that seeks to force Michigan Department of Corrections officials to provide necessary mental health ...
Will an Andretti reign at Indy 500 again

INDIANAPOLIS — Mario Andretti was hanging out in the media center at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Carb Day on Friday, speaking fluent Italian to a stoutly built friend in the front of the room.Indy is a place Andretti both loves and hates but respects for its ability to lure you in and devour you just when you think you have the track beaten.Andretti won only one Indianapolis 500 in ...
Lions safety Silva working on strength speed

Ricardo Silva heard the whispers.Silva started six games at safety for the Lions midway through last year after being signed off the practice squad, but by the time the season ended he was inactive and on the bench.He was a step too slow or maybe ...

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Jubal [Blu-Ray]

An intense drama whose Shakespearean tensions are embodied in the enormity of the Grand Tetons beneath which it unfolds, Jubal is an almost forgotten psychological western that, despite obvious differences, warrants comparison to the contemporaneous works of Howard Hawks and John Ford in term ... ...

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Red Wings look to eliminate the Blackhawks in Game 5

The Red Wings are looking to eliminate the Blackhawks in game five of the playoff series Saturday in Chicago. The Wings lead the series 3-1. To see all of the action, tune into Local 4 for the pre-game show at 7:30 p.m. The game immediately follows at 8 p.m. Jamie Edmonds will be live from Chicago for the postgame ...
Wings forward Millers return helping penalty kill deliver at right time

Wings want to 'stick to it' in Game 4: The Detroit Red Wings are focused on building a 3-1 series lead over the Chicago Blackhawks. Video by Helene St. James / ...
A bad night for Twins Team suffers 10th straight loss

Tigers' Anibal Sanchez talks about near no-hitter: Tigers right-hander Anibal Sanchez talks about his near no-hitter against the Minnesota Twins on Friday night at Comerica ...
Royal Oak dangerous dog law requires $1M insurance policies

Royal Oak officials said they hope that a new ordinance will prevent vicious attacks by dogs like two incidents reported by police last year.In October, an attack by a Doberman pinscher outside a Royal Oak grocery store left a Warren man with a broken nose and impaired breathing that required surgery. And in December, a police officer shot two pit bulls after the unlicensed dogs fatally mauled a ...
Pontiac schools in danger of missing payroll state warns

A report released by the state this week paints a bleak picture of the Pontiac School ...

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Facial recognition technology quickly identifies Boston Marathon bombing suspect

Researchers at Michigan State University including an Indian professor were able to quickly identify one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects from law enforcement video, using the latest in automatic facial recognition technology.

In the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing laboratory, Anil Jain, MSU Distinguished Professor of computer science and engineering, and Josh Klontz, a research scientist, tested three different facial-recognition systems.

By using actual law-enforcement video from the bombing, they found that one of the three systems could provide a "rank one" identification - a match - of suspect Dzokhar Tsarnaev.

"The other suspect, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the one ultimately killed in the shootout with police, could not be matched at a sufficiently high rank, partly because he was wearing sunglasses," Jain said. "The younger brother could be identified.

"This study was revealing in that facial recognition technology can successfully handle some cases in which facial images extracted from a video were captured under favorable conditions," he said.

Under controlled conditions, when the face is angled toward the camera and if the lighting is good, this technology can be up to 99 percent accurate. ...