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'Dictator' offends everyone -- but in a good way Tom Long
  1. State Police closed eastbound Interstate 94 in Detroit west of Lonyo on Wednesday afternoon after a propane tanker crashed into a car near Michigan Avenue. (Daniel Mears/ The Detroit News)

    Propane tanker crash closes eastbound I-94 in Detroit

    • By Josh Katzenstein
    • The Detroit News

    Michigan State Police are closing eastbound Interstate 94 in Detroit this afternoon after a propane tanker crashed into a car near Michigan Avenue.

  1. Michigan jobless rate drops to 8.3%

    Oakland County Human Resources Analyst Kelly Siddiqui was among representatives from 82 employers at the "Oakland Macomb Job Hub" on the campus of Oakland University in Rochester on February 23. Payroll employment in April rose by 5,000 jobs to 3.98 million. (Brandy Baker / The Detroit News)Michigan’s April unemployment rate fell by two-tenths of a percentage point, down to 8.3% from the March rate of 8.5%, and more than two full percentage points below the same month last year.

  2. State expects nearly $300 million more in revenue this year

    Total state tax revenues are up by nearly $300 million since they were last estimated by state officials in January, according to consensus estimates agreed upon by state economists and the state's treasurer.

  3. Parks Institute accuses probate judge of misconduct in court filing

    Rosa ParksThe Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self Development and its co-founder, Elaine Steele, filed court action late Tuesday accusing a probate judge and two lawyers of conspiracy in the long-standing battle over the estate of civil rights icon Rosa Parks.

  4. Snyder considering ‘interlocal’ bridge agreement

    Gov. Rick Snyder says he’s considering an “interlocal agreement” between state government and Canadian officials to get a new international bridge built across the Detroit River.

  1. Verlander calls the armed services cause “near and dear to my heart.” His first cousin, Christopher, is on his second tour of duty; he's serving in Afghanistan.

    Tigers’ Verlander gives $45K to veterans from ‘Fastball Flakes’ proceeds

    • By Tony Paul
    • The Detroit News

    Every once in awhile, Justin Verlander will sneak into a Metro Detroit Meijer and pick up 20 or 30 boxes of Fastball Flakes, the cereal he's been pitching since February. On Wednesday, though, he stopped at the grocery store for a greater purpose.

  1. Brandon: Playoff games should be played within bowl system

    • By Matt Charboneau
    • The Detroit News

    Chicago — Michigan athletic director David Brandon understands that his football team has a decided advantage playing games at Michigan Stadium.

    2. Sports Sightings

    Notable sports photos that also think Ryan Raburn should stay in the Tigers lineup.

  1. Explosion shakes Detroit street: ‘It scared the life out of me,’ says neighbor

    • By Josh Katzenstein and Tom Greenwood
    • The Detroit News
    Neighbor LaNeesha McCants, 33, of Detroit heard a boom at 1:59 a.m. Wednesday. She had three windows and a side door blown out at her home on the 9500 block of Saniliac. (Daniel Mears/ The Detroit News)

    Two dozen firefighters spent more than an hour battling a suspected arson fire at a house on the city’s east side early this morning.

  1. Photos: Gun sales booming in Michigan

  2. Photos: Whitewater paddling in Petoskey

  1. Snyder hasn’t decided how much pay he’ll keep

    • By Kathy Barks Hoffman
    • Associated Press

    Lansing— Gov. Rick Snyder turned back all but $1 of his pay last year, but he's not sure what he'll do this year.

  1. Mich. joins antitrust movement against Apple, publishers for ebook price fixing

    • By Karl Henkel
    • The Detroit News

    Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette today became the 30th state attorney general to file antitrust enforcement action against two electronic book publishers and Apple Inc. regarding price-fixing.

  1. GM rises after Berkshire Investment christens ‘Buffett Motors’

    • By Tim Higgins
    • Bloomberg News
    Warren Buffet (Associated Press)

    General Motors Co. gained as much as 4.3 percent, the most in almost a month, after Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. disclosed it bought a …

  1. Defense rests without calling Edwards, mistress to testify

    • By Michael Biesecker
    • Associated Press
    Former presidential candidate and Sen. John Edwards, center, arrives at a federal courthouse with his parents Wallace and Bobbie Edwards, right, in Greensboro, N.C. (Gerry Broome / Associated Press)

    Greensboro, N.C.— John Edwards' defense team has rested their case without the former presidential candidate or his mistress taking the witness …

  1. Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Dictator' rules with insults and laughs

    • By Tom Long
    • Detroit News Film Critic
    Sacha Baron Cohen skewers everybody in “The Dictator.” (Photo by Melinda Sue Gordon)

    But by the end of “The Dictator,” the riotous, offend-everyone comedy opening today, it’s clear that star and co-writer Sacha Baron Cohen has more on …

  1. Facebook boosts size of IPO by 25 percent on heavy demand

    • By Associated Press
    If all the shares are sold at the high end of the expected price range, the offering could total more than $18 billion. That would make Facebook one of the largest IPOs ever. (Getty Images)

    New York— Facebook insiders will be unloading more of their shares in the initial public offering, the company said Wednesday, as they take …

  1. Tigers miss hitting and leadership of Victor Martinez

    • By Lynn Henning
    • Detroit News Columnist
    Tigers' Victor Martinez as Detroit the Detroit Tigers take on the Minnesota Twins at Comerica Park in Detroit on September 10, 2011. (Robin Buckson / The Detroit News)

    Martinez would sit in front of his locker and talk softly with one or more of the Tigers players. All of them. The elders, the rookies, they seemed …

  1. Editorial: Schools need relief from retirement costs

    • By The Detroit News
    Snyder (Detroit News file)

    The state is carrying an unsustainable albatross of unfunded teacher retirement liabilities. A current Senate bill seeks to shrink some of this $45 …

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