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45 Detroit schools slated for closing under plan
10:21 AM on 03/17/2010
DETROIT (AP) - Detroit Public Schools are considering closing 45 schools in the next five years because students are leaving the district...
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Wife of Rep. Conyers sentenced to 37 months in prison
4:15 PM on 03/10/2010
DETROIT (AP) - As guards cleared the packed courtroom, Monica Conyers yelled that she planned to appeal...
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Oldest African-American, aged 113, dies in Detroit
3:44 PM on 03/09/2010
Daisey Bailey, believed to the oldest person of African descent in the world, died of organ failure at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit on Sunday, 23 days before her 114th birthday...
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8-year-old girl pleads with 911 dispatcher as mother dies
9:04 AM on 03/08/2010
VIDEO - Detroit police have released a chilling 911 call made by a young girl trying to get help after her parents were shot...
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Ex-Detroit mayor may be heading back to prison
4:51 PM on 02/26/2010
VIDEO - If ever a public figure should be down for the count, it is Kwame Kilpatrick...
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Despite legal troubles, ex-Detroit mayor lives large
10:41 AM on 02/26/2010
DETROIT (AP) - If ever a public figure should be down for the count, it is Kwame Kilpatrick...
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Arrest warrant signed for ex-Detroit mayor Kilpatrick
3:35 PM on 02/25/2010
udge David Groner signed an arrest warrant for former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick this afternoon for failing to make a $79,011 court-ordered restitution payment...
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TheGrio Reflects: Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul
12:48 PM on 02/10/2010
VIDEO - "The Queen Of Soul", "Lady Soul"..."Re-Re"... Whatever you call her... You have got to give her some R-E-S-P-E-C-T...
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Judge: Ex-Detroit mayor owes $300K within 90 days
9:10 AM on 01/21/2010
DETROIT (AP) -- Kwame Kilpatrick lost his job as Detroit's mayor and his freedom, in part, for telling lies...
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Christmas plane attack case will test defense
10:41 AM on 01/08/2010
DETROIT (AP) -- Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was tackled by a passenger on board a packed U.S. jetliner on Christmas as flames shot from his clothes...
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Terror suspect's family sought, got no help
3:00 PM on 12/28/2009
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- The Nigerian man accused of trying to bring down a U.S. airliner cut off contact with his family and disappeared from their lives until they awoke to news of the attempted Christmas Day attack, his family said Monday...
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12/28/09 - theGrio & CNBC Market Preview
7:41 AM on 12/28/2009
VIDEO - TheGrio and CNBC team up to deliver a weekly wrap up of money matters and market updates for our community...
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Music executive raises $20,000 to lay Detroit's deceased to rest
12:00 PM on 12/17/2009
After recently launching "May WE Rest in Peace", a non-profit organization to give back to the city of Detroit, music executive Shanti Das has been able to raise $20,000 since its initial beginnings in October...
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Detroit artists turn ruin into art
8:40 AM on 12/15/2009
Artists across the Detroit area are using the city's blight as their canvas, transforming abandoned homes into high-concept projects to draw attention to the homelessness, poverty and urban decay plaguing Detroit.
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Investigation of murdered stripper continues after six years
5:34 PM on 12/11/2009
DETROIT (AP) - Detroit The attractive, 27-year-old mother of three was shot several times in the pre-dawn hours of April 30, 2003, while sitting in a parked car.
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3-year-old girl fatally shoots herself
11:27 AM on 12/11/2009
VIDEO - One day after a 3-year-old Alexia Bostick accidentally shot herself with a gun police said is registered to her grandmother, the Detroit police chief is calling the case tragic.
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Dog-napping is new criminal trade in Detroit
1:02 PM on 11/05/2009
VIDEO - Residents in one west side Detroit neighborhood say thieves are breaking into their homes and stealing dogs...
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Detroit school sends kids home due to lack of teachers
11:48 AM on 10/13/2009
VIDEO - Nearly 60 children went to Detroit's McFarlane Elementary school Monday morning, only to be sent home because there were not enough teachers...
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Pastors look for answers in ponzi church scam
6:16 AM on 10/07/2009
VIDEO - An investigation is underway in Michigan where two men are accused of bilking dozens of Michigan churches out of thousands of dollars...
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Thousands who turned out for help with utility bills left upset
9:26 AM on 09/24/2009
VIDEO - More than 5,000 people turned out at the Michigan State fair grounds Wednesday looking for help with their utility bills...
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'All black people' asked to leave Wal-Mart
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, NJ (AP) - On Sunday evening at the store, a male voice calmly announced: "Attention Wal-Mart customers: All black people leave the store now."...
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