Detroit Free Press
- Family of young Detroit mother 'devastated' by news her body was found
Thursday - 02/07/2013 - 03:26 PMThe family of Dynasty Myles, 23, of Detroit has been notified that a body discovered in the 15300 block of Log Cabin is her, the family's lawyer, David Jones, said today.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Michigan AG Bill Schuette loses challenge to remove most of Detroit's school board
Thursday - 02/07/2013 - 01:12 PMIn an order signed on Feb. 5, Wayne Circuit Court Judge John Gillis Jr. denied State Attorney General Bill Schuette's motion for summary disposition and granted the school board's motion, effectively allowing the school board to continue to hold office.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 6 Michigan sites nominated to Historic Places register
Thursday - 02/07/2013 - 11:31 AMSix sites in Michigan have been nominated to the National Register of Historic Places
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 2-6 inches of snow in metro Detroit, blizzard in east coast expected by Friday
Thursday - 02/07/2013 - 09:24 AMA winter storm is expected to drop 2 to 6 inches of snow tonight in southeast Michigan before heading east and morphing into what forecasters are describing as a massive winter blizzard.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Detroit police looking for missing cousins
Thursday - 02/07/2013 - 08:56 AMCousins Dayja Jones, 16, and Lasha Leggett, 15, were last scene at 9 p.m. Monday, leaving Lasha's house on Detroit's east side, according to investigators.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Inkster man sues city over water rates, meter provider
Wednesday - 02/06/2013 - 10:30 PMAn Inkster man who got a water bill that topped $6,000 is leading litigation against the city and a company over the new digital water meters that have drawn the ire of some residents.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Crash kills mom, hurts 12-year-old
Wednesday - 02/06/2013 - 11:12 PMDEARBORN A 42-year-old Dearborn woman was killed Wednesday in a crash on Outer Drive, according to Dearborn police. The crash occurred shortly before 8 a.m., police said, when the woman's green Mustang tried to cross Outer Drive near Willow Street.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Snyder pushes to extend Medicaid to 470,000 Michiganders -- 'care for people who need it'
Thursday - 02/07/2013 - 12:30 AMNearly a half million more low-income Michiganders who are currently uninsured would be eligible for Medicaid-funded health care if Gov. Rick Snyder gets his way. But it's not a done deal yet.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - NASA exhibit, ex-astronaut hoped to boost Yankee Air Museum's rebirth after 2004 fire
Thursday - 02/07/2013 - 12:30 AMSpace shuttle commander Jack Lousma and a traveling NASA exhibit opening Saturday are helping the Yankee Air Museum continue a trek into science and math education.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - MSP trooper recalls saving girl after I-75 pileup
Wednesday - 02/06/2013 - 05:07 PMOn Thursday morning, Michigan State Police Trooper Seth Swanson had just been dispatched to the multi-vehicle accident -- one of several on I-75 southbound that morning after a heavy snow squall blew over the roadway, blinding drivers.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Get expert job hunting tips, advice (live chat; noon, Monday)
Thursday - 02/07/2013 - 12:34 PMJoin us Monday from noon to 1 p.m. for a Web chat on how to find a job. Guests will include: Chad Austin, job placement officer at Henry Ford Community College in Dearborn and Liran Kotzer, founder and CEO of DoNanza.com, which aggregates freelance jobs for graphic designers, writers, those with experience in social media, video and others.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Coyotes on the prowl in metro Detroit, police warn
Thursday - 02/07/2013 - 01:37 PMPolice in Canton issued a warning today that coyote sightings in the city. Police Special Services Lt. Deb Newsome said people should accompany pets outside at night, eliminate outside food sources like pet food, put garbage out the morning of pick-up and stay away from a coyote if one is spotted.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Landfill, parking lots all up for grabs as Pontiac auctions off assets
Thursday - 02/07/2013 - 10:18 AMThe city of Pontiac is selling off several properties in an auction, in an effort to raise money for the financially strapped community.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Oz' to get charity premiere in Birmingham
Thursday - 02/07/2013 - 09:19 AMWhen "Oz the Great and Powerful" hits theaters next month, there will be a local red carpet event in downtown Birmingham -- only the carpet actually will look like a yellow brick road.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - WSU faculty contract could be near, but wages unresolved
Wednesday - 02/06/2013 - 10:29 PMWayne State University's faculty could be closer to a new contract after union leadership announced Wednesday it had almost reached a tentative agreement with the university but still has several issues to negotiate.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 1st trial under way in Wayne County corruption probe
Wednesday - 02/06/2013 - 10:30 PMThe bribes -- typically $8,500 in cash placed in a bag -- were delivered to the Rochester Hills home of Wayne County's former Chief Information Officer Tahir Kazmi. Software contractor Philip Shisha testified Wednesday that he would visit Kazmi, engage in small talk and then proceed to a library inside the home to leave money in a desk drawer.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Lottery results for Feb. 6
Thursday - 02/07/2013 - 12:08 AMLottery results for Michigan and Ohio games
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - I-75 pileup: Trooper makes 'hardest decision' to revive girl over siblings found without pulses
Thursday - 02/07/2013 - 12:30 AMThe state trooper reached into the broken-out rear window of the mangled car in search of life. He checked the vitals of a young girl, then the little boy next to her.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Michigan woman who snapped kittens' necks after fight with young owner gets jail time
Wednesday - 02/06/2013 - 09:40 PMA 56-year-old western Michigan woman has received a 150-day jail sentence for killing three kittens.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Rats! St. Clair Shores says no to $5-per-rodent bounty plan
Wednesday - 02/06/2013 - 05:30 PMActing City Manager Mike Smith said today that council determined the bounty wasn't necessary. He said about 90% of the feedback was "this is stupid, it's not gonna work" while the other 10% was "this is crazy, don't do."
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- Rights group praises Royal Oak gun shop for stopping sale of skeleton targets wearing Muslim attire
Thursday - 02/07/2013 - 02:31 PMThe Michigan chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MI) welcomed the decision by Target Sports in Royal Oak.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 5 top things Gov. Snyder wants to do in 2013-14 budget
Thursday - 02/07/2013 - 12:49 PMGov. Rick Snyder laid out a host of new proposals and spending in his 2013-14 budget address today. The higher fuel taxes and vehicle registration fees, which Snyder said would cost families about $120 extra per vehicle on average, promise to be the most controversial elements of his budget plan
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Juries deliberate fate of men accused of murdering women over fake $10 bill
Thursday - 02/07/2013 - 10:09 AMSemaj Moran, 17, and Arnold Howard, 23, are charged with first degree and felony murder in the Feb. 17 shooting deaths of Loretta Fournier, 52, and Luann Robinson, 57.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Making magic at the Motown Winter Blast (video)
Thursday - 02/07/2013 - 08:46 AMGo behind the scenes of Motown Winter Blast with Jeff Wilson, who handles operations and logistics for many of Detroit's biggest events.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Gov. Snyder to unveil big spending changes today
Thursday - 02/07/2013 - 07:51 AMSnyder says the state needs to spend more than $1 billion more each year on Michigan's roads and bridges than it is spending now.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Detroit City Council interviews 5 to serve on public lighting authority
Wednesday - 02/06/2013 - 11:11 PMA Detroit City Council committee interviewed five applicants Wednesday to serve on the new public lighting authority that will design a strategy for getting the streetlights back on.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Help sought in solving killing of Naval petty officer from Detroit
Wednesday - 02/06/2013 - 11:13 PMTerrence Hill Jr. wanted to be a military policeman, but someone stole his dreams from him, his mother said Wednesday as she and other relatives pleaded for help in solving his killing last month on Detroit's west side.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Defense rests in corruption case after Kwame Kilpatrick opts not to testify
Thursday - 02/07/2013 - 12:30 AMKwame Kilpatrick, the onetime smooth-talking mayor who could chat up everyone from the inner-city poor to the wealthy executive, opted to rest his public corruption case in silence Friday, without saying a word to the jury.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Allen Park emergency financial manager to slice mayor, council salaries
Thursday - 02/07/2013 - 12:32 AMAllen Park's mayor and members of its City Council will see their salaries cut in half as one of several measures to be implemented by the city's emergency financial manager, the city announced Wednesday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Detroit man raps before judge in court hearing
Wednesday - 02/06/2013 - 04:22 PMA Detroit man accused of threatening to kill his girlfriend used his opportunity before a Macomb County judge to tell his story in a freestyle rap.
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