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  • Stilt walker finishes 354-mile Michigan trek

    JACKSON, Mich. (AP) -- Three-hundred-fifty-four miles and thousands of donated dollars later, the "Michigan Stilt Walker" has wrapped up his latest trek across the ...

  • Sterling Heights eyes 2.5-mill tax increase for police fire roads

    The Sterling Heights City Council on Tuesday is to consider putting a millage proposal on the Nov. 5 ballot to levy a special 2.5-mill property tax for police and fire and for road improvements.The portion of the millage to preserve police and fire protection would be 1.7 mills and 0.8 mills would be for road repair and reconstruction, allowing the city to invest more than $30 million in ...

  • Tornadoes hit Kansas Oklahoma no injuries reported

    TOPEKA, KAN. — Authorities say tornadoes have touched down in Wichita, Kan., and a suburb of Oklahoma City but there are no immediate reports of injuries or significant damage.Sedgwick County, Kan., emergency management director Randy Duncan says officials ...

  • U-M MSU other Big Ten football assistant salary database

    Here is the 2013 salary of every Big Ten assistant coach, other than coaches from Northwestern (private) and Penn State (doesn't have to obey open-records laws). These salaries do not ...

  • Thousands flock to Flower Day at Eastern Market

    Tricia Barnes, left, of Detroit shops using rented carts with her best friend Flarenda Meredith during the 47th Annual Flower Day at Eastern Market in Detroit Sunday, May, 19, 2013. 'I am a first time planter' says Barnes. / Mandi Wright/Detroit Free ...

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Twilight

Twilight

I am usually attuned to significant trends in popular culture, whether they be on disc, in print, or on screen, which is why I was surprised to learn not too long ago that I had somehow completely missed the arrival and growing popularity of Stephenie Meyers series of teen-pulp gothic novels a ... ...

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  • Game thread Tigers lineup for primetime game vs. Rangers

    The Detroit Tigers look to even the 4-game series against the Texas Rangers tonight in Arlington.Game time is set for 8:05 p.m. on ESPN.Doug Fister (5-1, 3.06 ERA) takes the mound for the Tigers. He threw seven innings of 2-run ball against the Houston Astros in his last start, a 6-2 win. Adrian Beltre is 6-for-14 against him lifetime, while Nelson Cruz is 7-for-16 with a home run.Left-hander ...

  • 6 Weeks Key to Deciding Detroits Fate

    Bond restructurings, negotiated settlements with bondholders and bond insurers, and tough talk with unionized workers are on the agenda as Detroit's emergency financial manager tries to meet a self-imposed, six-week deadline to decide whether the city can get through its financial crisis without a bankruptcy filing.Kevyn Orr, a former bankruptcy lawyer, in his first report to the state of ...

  • Struggling with urban decay Detroit now has a mountain of unwanted coke - thanks to anti-environmentalist Koch brothers

    The vistas in struggling Detroit are not always beautiful. Once-grand commercial buildings stand open to the winds while wild grasses strangle those swathes of the city where abandoned homes have been razed. And now residents must deal with an enormous and fast-growing mountain of pitch-black ...

  • For Detroit in crisis next six weeks determine bankruptcy fate

    A plug is seen coming from the Chevrolet Volt electric car during the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Michigan January 13, ...

  • Associated Press CEO calls records seizure unconstitutional

    In this Sunday, May 19, 2013, photo provided by CBS News, Gary Pruitt, the President and CEO of the Associated Press, discusses the leak investigation that led to his reporters' phone records being subpoenaed by the Justice Department on CBS's "Face the Nation" in Washington. Pruitt says DoJ's seizure of AP journalists' phone records was ...

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