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Two stunning Tigers' trades in last 12 hours mean this rebuilding is for real
Good morning, Detroit. There have a been a few changes while you were sleeping.
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Detroit Open City
Detroit is the great American Twilight Zone, where the macabre and the redemptive flow daily in almost equal measure. By Aaron Robertson.
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20 years in, Kid Rock, Eminem and ICP are politically relevant — and culturally divided
Roll back the clock precisely 20 years, and you’d encounter a curious phenomenon bubbling up in Detroit. September 1997: Kid Rock had just landed a major-label record deal. Little-known Eminem was about to catch Dr. Dre’s ear and land his own. The face-painted duo Insane Clown Posse was grabbing headlines and hitting the charts amid controversy.
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Brad Ausmus out as Detroit Tigers manager at end of season
The former Tigers catcher has a 312-325 record going into tonight's game.
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Alphabet’s Waymo Will Test Self-Driving Cars in Snowy Detroit
The self-driving cars Google designed are going to the snow -- and the seat of the car industry.
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Emotional goodbye at Michigan airport as woman deported after 30 years in U.S.
After 30 years in the U.S., where she raised three children, worked and paid taxes in Sterling Heights, Zahrija Purovic, 50, was put on a plane and sent to Montenegro on Thursday. Despite no criminal record and a pending motion for a stay of removal in federal appeals court, immigration authorities ordered her to pack her belongings, purchase a plane ticket and appear at Detroit Metro Airport.
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Ignored By Big Telecom, Detroit's Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet
Being stuck without access to the internet is often thought of as a problem only for rural America. But even in some of America’s biggest cities, a significant portion of the population can’t get online. Take Detroit, where 40 percent of the population has no access to the internet—of any kind, not only high speed—at home, according to the Federal Communications Commission. Seventy percent of school-aged children in the city are among those who have no internet access at home.
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Michiganders or Michiganians? Lawmakers settle it
Tucked into an obscure package of bills regarding Michigan's Historical Commission is a section that strikes Michiganian for Michigander.
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Silverdome still stands, implosion goes awry
A much anticipated partial implosion of the long dormant Silverdome on Saturday appeared not to have gone as planned and disappointed the thousands of onlookers who got up early to be on the scene. Shortly after 8:30 a.m. puffs of smoke from explosives could be seen coming from around the structure but not much else happened. The highly anticipated explosion was supposed to bring down the upper ring of the iconic 400,000-square-foot structure.
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No prison for Detroit woman who stole $176,000 from Social Security
A Detroit woman who looted the Social Security system for nearly 30 years has been sentenced to a halfway house for stealing $176,000. Linda Pesenecker's mother died in 1986, but she never informed the government. Her mother's Social Security payments were mailed or flowed into their bank account until 2013. The U.S. Attorney's Office asked for 18 months in prison Tuesday, noting that Pesenecker forged her mother's signature on a letter when investigators asked about her health.
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Is this the end of Delray?
Detroit offers homeowners money to move away from this dying neighborhood. But some residents say they’ll never leave.
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Man accused of sexually assaulting sleeping woman on Detroit-bound flight
A man from India is accused of sexually assaulting a 22-year-old woman Wednesday while she slept against a window on a flight from Las Vegas to Detroit, according to federal court filings. Prabhu Ramamoorthy appeared Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Detroit after the Spirit Airlines flight arrived at Metro Airport. He faces a charge of aggravated sexual abuse.
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Suspected Meteor Shakes Houses across Metro Detroit
Thunderous boom shakes homes across metro Detroit
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The American Sedan Is Dying. Long Live the SUV
Detroit executives are killing off their slow-selling cars in favor of SUVs.
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Firefighters Save 14 Dogs, Puppies From Burning Detroit Home
Detroit firefighters went the extra length to save a group of dogs and puppies from a house fire. The fire took off Tuesday afternoon at a home on Plainview, near Evergreen Road and Warren Avenue on the city’s west side. As many as 17 dogs, including a litter of puppies, were trapped the basement full of smoke, according to Deputy Fire Commissioner Dave Fornell.
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Standoff Ends: 3 Women Dead, 3 Officers Injured, Gunman Dead
Three women are dead, three officers injured and a lone gunman is dead after a tense standoff between police and the barricaded man. Since late Sunday night Detroit police have been on the scene of a barricaded gunman — at a home on Lamont Street off Seven Mile Road between Mound and Ryan roads in northeast Detroit — which ended with three people killed and three Detroit police officers injured Monday afternoon.
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In Detroit's poorest neighborhoods, a food truck serves the forgotten
Detroit is the only place where the Salvation Army brings food directly to the city’s hungriest residents, right where they live.
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Wakanda Forever: Detroit Pistons relate to Marvel's 'Black Panther'
Members of the Detroit Pistons can be included in the “Black Panther” wave that’s swept across the country. The Marvel Studios commercial and critical success is crushing box-office records, already surpassing more than $500 million in the 18 days since it was released last month. Set in the fictional African country of Wakanda, the movie is upfront with a Pan-African message that resonates with black audiences. Many African-Americans wore African garb to viewings, honoring the characters.
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Plan in motion to save Ulysses S. Grant home
Historic Detroit home once occupied by President Ulysses S. Grant may be relocated from the former Michigan State Fairgrounds to the Dequindre Cut.
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Death by Instagram
The inside story of Detroit’s gang wars, a battle prosecutors say was fueled by Instagram hit lists and the Seven Mile Bloods, the social-media savvy gang that had a death grip on both the opioid drug trade and one of the deadliest parts of America’s most violent big city.
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