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Michigan jobless rate drops to 8.3%
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.
- U.S. factory output rose in April on stronger autos
- Teen job outlook up for this summer
- Young voters lose enthusiasm amid anemic economy
- Detroit Meijer shopping center set to break ground Thursday
- Detroit gathering focuses on urban entrepreneurs
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Pastor Winans carjacked on Detroit’s west side
Pastor Marvin L. Winans, the head of Perfecting Church, was carjacked and assaulted Wednesday as he was buying gas at a Citgo station on Linwood near Davison
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Detroit police arrest suspect in death of elderly church security guard
Police on Wednesday arrested a suspect in connection with the murder of an 84-year-old church security guard in theparking lot at Victory Way Assembly Church of God in Christ in Detroit.
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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.
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Parks Institute accuses probate judge of misconduct in court filing
The 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.
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Tigers’ Verlander gives $45K to veterans from ‘Fastball Flakes’ proceeds
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.
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Brandon: Playoff games should be played within bowl system
Chicago — Michigan athletic director David Brandon understands that his football team has a decided advantage playing games at Michigan Stadium.
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Explosion shakes Detroit street: ‘It scared the life out of me,’ says neighbor
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.
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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.
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Mich. joins antitrust movement against Apple, publishers for ebook price fixing
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.
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GM rises after Berkshire Investment christens ‘Buffett Motors’
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
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Defense rests without calling Edwards, mistress to testify
Greensboro, N.C.— John Edwards' defense team has rested their case without the former presidential candidate or his mistress taking the witness
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Sacha Baron Cohen's 'Dictator' rules with insults and laughs
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
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Facebook boosts size of IPO by 25 percent on heavy demand
New York— Facebook insiders will be unloading more of their shares in the initial public offering, the company said Wednesday, as they take
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Tigers miss hitting and leadership of Victor Martinez
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
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Editorial: Schools need relief from retirement costs
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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