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Detroit students show worst math scores
Detroit :: MI :: USA | 1 day ago
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Detroit public school students scored the worst in math in the history of a nationwide test, leading officials to declare a system overhaul to be an emergency. Seventy-seven percent of eighth-graders and 69 percent of fourth-graders scored below basic...
Tags: Detroit News, Detroit, Education
New Malibu to be built in Michigan, not expected to affect Fairfax
Malibu :: CA :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility General Motors plans to build the redesigned 2012 Chevrolet Malibu at a Detroit plant. But local union officers and analysts don't believe it will affect the model's production at the Fairfax plant. The Detroit News reported that GM will spend $336 million...
Tags: Chevrolet Malibu, Detroit News, Malibu, Environment, Car manufacturers, General Motors, Chevrolet, Mid-size cars, Opel, Business Finance, Chevrolet Volt, Sedans, Coupes, Convertibles, Hamtramck Michigan, Cadillac
Prosecutors seeking Kilpatrick sanction?
Detroit :: MI :: USA | 2 days ago
Credibility Prosecutors may be paving the way to charging former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick with violating his probation, courtroom observers say. A court court hearing called Tuesday to determine if Kilpatrick should be allowed to reduce his court-ordered restitution...
Tags: Kwame Kilpatrick, Ex-Detroit, Detroit News, detroit mayor, Detroit Free Press, pleaded guilty, mayor kwame, Detroit, Law Crime, Business Finance, Kilpatrick and Beatty text-messaging scandal, Probation, Jennifer Granholm, Criminal law, Parole, Kym Worthy
2 Kilpatrick aides implicated in bribery
Detroit :: MI :: USA | 5 days ago
Credibility A former Detroit police officer pleaded guilty to bribery Friday and implicated two former aides to Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick . Jerry River, 39, of Taylor, Mich., told a federal judge he received $50,000 for helping in the sale of Camp Brighton, a city-owned...
Tags: Kwame Kilpatrick, Detroit News, Detroit, Monica Conyers, Law Crime, Perjury
Detroit police seize counterfeit clothing
Detroit :: MI :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility Detroit police seized clothes, pocketbooks and shoes after getting a tip two stores were selling counterfeit items with high-end labels, investigators said. Detectives working undercover made purchases at Dress for Less and the Hip Hop Connection, The...
Tags: Detroit News, detroit police, Detroit, fashion, Counterfeit, Gucci, Detroit Police Department
Man sentenced in Detroit bribery scandal
Detroit :: MI :: USA | 9 days ago
Credibility A Detroit waste company officer was fined and sentenced to prison Monday in a bribery and corruption scandal that touched City Hall, authorities said...He was convicted of bribing city officials to award waste company Synagro a $1.2 billion sewage hauling...
Tags: Detroit City Council, Detroit News, Detroit, University of the District of Columbia, Monica Conyers, Law Crime, John Conyers, Avern Cohn, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bribery, Corruption, Political scandals of the United States
TV switchover leaves some viewers out
Madrid :: Spain | 12 days ago
Credibility Some Spanish-speaking Detroit residents say they can't watch their favorite television channel following the national switch to digital television transmission. The changeover left many unable to receive their old broadcast channels.
Tags: Detroit News, Spain, Madrid, Very high frequency, Cable television, Ultra high frequency, WUDT-CA, Digital television, Entertainment Culture, Radio spectrum
Newspaper stops publication after one week
Detroit :: MI :: USA | 12 days ago
Credibility A new Detroit daily newspaper has suspended publication after just one week, it announced Friday. The Detroit Daily Press blamed lack of advertising, printing delays and distribution problems, the Detroit Free Press reported...It hoped to gain readership...
Tags: Detroit Daily Press, Detroit News, Detroit Free Press, Detroit, Business Finance, The Detroit News, Entertainment Culture, Printing, Advertising, Technology Internet, Techno, Human Interest, Newspaper, Detroit Tigers, Detroit Newspaper Partnership, Journalism
Holder pledges to enforce all laws equally
Justice :: IL :: USA | 19 days ago
Credibility Attorney General Eric Holder assured an audience in Detroit that the Justice Department would enforce all of the nation's laws with "equal conviction." "I can assure you under my leadership the Department of Justice will enforce all of our nation's laws...
Tags: U.S. Justice Department, Muslims, law enforce, Eric Holder, Detroit News, Imad Hamad, Justice, Racial profiling, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Politics, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, United States Department of Justice, Law Crime, Social Issues
GM gets tax break to stay in Detroit headquarters
Detroit :: MI :: USA | 22 days ago
Credibility The Michigan Economic Growth Authority on Tuesday approved extending the credits the company won in June for agreeing to build a new small car at a plant near Pontiac. The tax credits will now cover some workers at GM headquarters. The agreement says...
Tags: Detroit News, Michigan Economic Growth Authority, tax breaks, detroit headquarters, gets tax, Detroit, Metro Detroit, Opel, Lansing Michigan, Renaissance Center, Business Finance, General Motors, Car manufacturers, Magna International, Labor, Michigan, GMAC, Wayne County Michigan, Detroit People Mover, Economy of metropolitan Detroit, Culture of Detroit Michigan, Economy of Detroit Michigan
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