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  • SEP mayoral candidate outlines socialist program at Detroit election forum

    D'Artagnan Collier, the Socialist Equality Party's candidate for Detroit mayor, spoke Thursday at a mayoral forum held at the North Rosedale Park Community House on the city's northwest side. Collier outlined a socialist program for the working class and distinguished himself from the array of Democratic candidates at the forum. These included Liza Howze, former Detroit Medical ...

  • Emails show Snyder aides aware of skunk works group

    Lansing - Gov. Rick Snyder's administration has claimed the once-secret "skunk works" education reform project was not a government-sanctioned work group, but newly obtained administration correspondence suggests otherwise. Emails obtained by The Detroit News through the Freedom of Information Act show at least three top Snyder aides were aware that a Department of Technology, ...

  • Mich. Rep. Camp IRS lied must clean house

    Kevin Brady, R-Texas, left, addresses the House panel hearing with fellow Reps. Dave Camp, R-Midland, and Sander Levin, D-Royal Oak. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated ...

  • Organic food companies gain Washington clout

    U.S. sales of organic foods reached $35 billion last year, and the ...

  • Military to re-train leaders on sexual assault prevention

    Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, left, and Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, discuss Friday at the Pentagon the ways in which the military plans to fight problems with sexual assaults in its ranks. (Mark Wilson / Getty ...

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30 Days of Night

30 Days of Night

No doubt, 30 Days of Night, which is based on an acclaimed three-issue comic book series by Steve Niles and Ben Templesmith, has a great premise: a hoard of bloodthirsty vampires descend on a tiny town where the sun doesn't rise for a month. The story takes place in Barrow, ... ...

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  • Plymouth-Canton Livonia voters say yes to technology upgrades

    Voters in Plymouth-Canton Community Schools and Livonia Public Schools said yes today to technology upgrades, school renovations, school bus purchases and other projects.All but one of the eight school-related proposals on the ballot passed tonight, with the exception being a $12.9-million bond proposal in Richmond Community Schools in Macomb County.■ Election ...

  • Farrakhan Kilpatricks sins would have been forgiven in white politicians

    Speaking in a Detroit church Friday night, Minister Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam said that he plans to visit former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in prison Saturday as he tried to portray him as a victim of white ...

  • Troy voters keep moderate in office after recall of Janice Daniels

    Dane Slater basks in the noise of his crowded victory party after being elected mayor of Troy in a special election today. / Bill Laitner/Detroit Free ...

  • Michigan woman’s rape cancer claims investigated as scams

    James Grissom, who was convicted in 2003 and sentenced 15 years in prison for the rape of Sara Ylen, looks out a window in Southgate, Mich. Ylen, who said she was battling cancer, is now charged with fraud, false pretenses and using a computer to commit a crime because state police found no doctor who diagnosed her cancer. The charges were made as those who regularly helped Ylen reel from the ...

  • Hawaii-bound pension trustees may face removal by emergency manager

    A spokesman for Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr says, 'We are researching all of the emergency manager's legal options regarding the boards, including the removal of individual members.' / Andre J. Jackson/Detroit Free ...

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