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  • Kuroda Inspires Yankees Detroit Edge Rangers

    (Reuters) - Japanese ace Hiroki Kuroda pulled out his best performance of the season as the New York Yankees cruised to a 5-0 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday. Kuroda (6-2) allowed just two hits in eight innings and lowered his ERA to 1.99 to keep the Yankees (26-16) on top of the American League East Division while ensuring the Blue Jays (17-25) remain rooted to the bottom. ...

  • Teachers death and suspects standoff shock Oakland County

    Neighbor is shocked by death of Harry Berkowitz: Nancy Katzman, 52, and other neighbors said they were shocked to learn of the death of Harry Berkowitz in ...

  • Michigan Avenue merchants fear theyll be the victims of robbery hoax

    The bizarre saga of a 68-year-old woman who said she was forced to hand over jewelry valued at more than $135,000 to a group of menacing young men on the bustling Magnificent Mile reverberated around the country.Some 36 hours later, police had discredited the woman's account, but the damage to Chicago's reputation as the glittering jewel by the lake had been done, according to some ...

  • Briefs Unemployment down in Michigan 39 other states

    Solid hiring helped push down unemployment rates in 40 states last month, the most since November. The declines show job markets are improving in most of the country. The Labor Department says unemployment rates only rose in Louisiana, Tennessee and North Dakota. Rates were unchanged in seven states. California, New York and South Carolina all reported the largest declines in joblessness - 0.4 ...

  • Animals rescued from Warren shop are under close watch at hospitals

    Veterinarian technician Sheri Grace and Dr. Thomas Bankstahl care for an iguana at Parkway Small Animal and Exotic Hospital in Clinton Township. It was rescued from Greenwood Pets in Warren after a raid this week. / Andre J. Jackson/Detroit Free ...

Movie Review

The Harder They Come [DVD]

The Harder They Come [DVD]

Before Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come was released in 1973, Jamaica had never seen itself on screen. Having earned independence from England a scant 10 years earlier, the small island nation in the West Indies was just beginning to form its own unique identity, and The Harder They Come helped solidify it in both the minds of Jamaicans and in the eyes of the rest of the wor ... ...

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  • Marine reunited with K-9 comrade

    Marine reunited with combat bomb-sniffing dog: Marine Sergeant Ross Gundlach is reunited with Casey, a bomb sniffing dog he was deployed with to ...

  • Lions LB hopes Titus Young can get mental help he needs

    About a week before he was arrested for the first time, Titus Young happened to be on the same flight from Miami to Detroit as Lions linebacker and former teammate Stephen Tulloch.Tulloch, who was honored as the ...

  • NBA draft Work ethic took Oladipo from off radar to lottery pick

    CHICAGO — Not many were calling Victor Oladipo a potential top-10 draft pick when he was a freshman defensive specialist at Indiana.The general consensus was that he had to improve offensively to be considered an NBA prospect.Guess NBA teams already have an idea of ...

  • Are engineers too few or just harder to find

    What research showsThe Society of Manufacturing Engineers predicts that the shortage of skilled factory workers could reach 3 million jobs in the U.S. by 2015. A Boston Consulting Group study forecasts there will be 875,000 too few highly-skilled machinists, welders, industrial engineers and machinery mechanics by 2020. From January 2010 through September 2012, U.S. manufacturing employment ...

  • Taking the Lead Lovio-George PR firm

    Christina Lovio-George is celebrating 30 years as one of the area's top veteran public relations executives. Lovio-George is shown at her firm Wednesday. / Mandi Wright/Detroit Free ...

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