Thu Jan 12, 2012 6:09 PM EST
Fighting crime is a 24-hour job, but Detroit police stations will be sticking to business hours.
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Thu Jan 5, 2012 1:52 PM EST
The city of Detroit has time to avoid having a state-appointed emergency manager put in place, but city and union officials had better move quickly to avoid significant state intervention, state officials said Tuesday.
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Mon Dec 19, 2011 6:58 PM EST
An Iranian-American from Michigan who appeared on Iran's state TV is not a CIA spy as authorities in that country claim and was visiting relatives when he was detained, his father said Monday.
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Tue Dec 13, 2011 9:57 AM EST
Detroit Pistons center Ben Wallace was sentenced Tuesday to a year of probation but avoided jail time on drunken driving and gun possession charges stemming from a September traffic stop in suburban Detroit.
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Fri Dec 2, 2011 4:24 PM EST
The idea is extreme, even in a city accustomed to fighting for survival: Should the state of Michigan step in to run Detroit?
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Thu Dec 1, 2011 5:01 PM EST
Detroit Mayor Dave Bing on Thursday sharply criticized an expected 30-day state review of the city's troubled finances, which is a first step toward a possible state takeover.
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Thu Nov 3, 2011 3:02 PM EDT
In a Nov. 3 story on the city of Highland Park asking a utility to remove about 1,000 street lights, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Chrysler moved its world headquarters from Highland Park 50 miles north. Chrysler moved its headquarters about 25 miles north.
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Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:17 PM EDT
Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Howard Wolpe, who helped pass the federal anti-apartheid act in 1986, has died. He was 71.
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Thu Oct 6, 2011 1:32 PM EDT
A pilot whose plane crashed into Lake Huron spent nearly a full day in the water because an air-traffic controller and Coast Guard rescuers were confused about where he had ditched his single-engine aircraft, according to a sheriff's report.
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Wed Oct 5, 2011 5:04 PM EDT
The problems plaguing the most depressed big city in America — block after block of abandoned houses, a plummeting population, troubled schools and unemployment near 30 percent — are not going away.
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Tue Oct 4, 2011 2:55 PM EDT
A Detroit police officer was charged Tuesday in the slaying of a 7-year-old girl who was shot to death during a midnight raid on her home by a special unit that was being shadowed by a reality television show crew.
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Tue Sep 27, 2011 4:58 PM EDT
A former suburban Detroit police chief and five of his detectives have been charged in an alleged scheme that used drug forfeiture money to pay for prostitutes, alcohol and marijuana, and to buy a tanning salon later operated by the then-chief's wife.
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Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:37 PM EDT
Criminal charges were dismissed against a Detroit mother accused of firing a shot at police and keeping them at bay outside her home for 12 hours when they tried to remove her 13-year-old daughter.
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Thu Jul 28, 2011 2:16 PM EDT
A New York auto shop owner who survived 18 hours without a life jacket in Lake Huron after his small, two-seat Cessna crashed within sight of the Michigan shoreline said Thursday that it was his desire to stay alive that pushed him to swim and tread water as 10-foot waves buffeted his body.
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Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:06 PM EDT
Whole Foods Market Inc. plans to open its first store in Detroit, which would make it the only national grocery chain operating in the city limits.
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Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:54 PM EDT
Detroit neighborhoods with more people and a better chance of survival will receive different levels of city services than more blighted areas under a plan unveiled Wednesday that some residents fear may pit them against each other for scarce resources.
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Wed Jul 6, 2011 5:56 PM EDT
A Michigan man on the FBI's most wanted list of terror suspects is accused of using a fake passport in an attempt to get into Israel and conduct a bombing on behalf of the Islamic militant group Hezbollah, according to an indictment unsealed in federal court in Detroit.
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Sun Jun 26, 2011 2:11 PM EDT
After only about a month as top boss of Detroit Public Schools, Roy Roberts, a 72-year-old former General Motors executive and private equity firm founder, is well aware that some people already want him gone.
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Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:47 PM EDT
A misstep on the spiked heel of one of her favorite Jimmy Choo designer shoes left the Queen of Soul in a hospital boot with a fractured toe on her left foot.
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Thu Jun 2, 2011 4:24 PM EDT
During the past year that Kwame Kilpatrick has spent in Michigan prisons, Detroit's ex-mayor has had plenty of time to ponder the divide between a once-promising public service career that included shaking hands with U.S. presidents, but now gets spent rubbing elbows and swapping tales with murderers, rapists and common thieves.
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Sun May 22, 2011 1:53 PM EDT
Frustration over her physically impaired daughter's medical care led Maryanne Godboldo to lash out at what she considered state interference and into a 12-hour standoff when Detroit police came to take the girl away.
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Thu May 5, 2011 9:29 AM EDT
Michigan's governor has appointed a former General Motors Corp. executive as the new emergency manager for Detroit Public Schools.
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Sun May 1, 2011 7:10 PM EDT
Grammy-nominated artist Kid Rock told nearly 10,000 people at the Detroit NAACP branch's annual fundraising dinner that his use of the Confederate flag during on-stage performances has nothing to do with how he feels about blacks.
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Sun May 1, 2011 6:16 PM EDT
People critical of the NAACP's decision to honor Kid Rock at its annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner burned a Confederate flag Sunday afternoon in front of the event's downtown Detroit venue.
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Sun May 1, 2011 5:11 PM EDT
People critical of the NAACP's decision to honor Kid Rock at its annual Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner burned a Confederate flag Sunday afternoon in front of the event's downtown Detroit venue.
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