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Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Michigan may cut subsidies that keep Amtrak running along two of its three passenger rail lines in the state, both of which connect with Chicago. The state is paying Amtrak $7.3 million a year to offer roundtrip daily service linking Grand Rapids to Chicago and Port Huron to Chicago. Funding would drop by half to about $3.7 million starting in October under a budget passed by Senate Republicans. Democratic...
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USA Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
The U.S. Coast Guard and others are searching Lake Erie for four Michigan fishermen whose 19-foot (6-meter) boat set sail a day ...
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abyss2hope: A rape survivor's zigza (Free subscription) | yesterday
From Detroit News : The appeals court reversed a federal judge in Detroit Wednesday and threw out 21 of Jeffrey Moldowan's claims in a federal lawsuit he filed in 2005, including his malicious prosecution and other claims against the Jane Doe who accused him. The woman, who was severely and permanently injured in the attack, can't be sued for malicious prosecution, even if she testified falsely, the...
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Star Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
The wife of one of the fishermen told the Coast Guard she talked to her husband — the boat's owner — by cell phone around noon Thursday and nothing seemed to be amiss.
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Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Miguel Servando pleaded guilty in November to two counts of murder-for-hire. Two Houston men are accused of hiring him.
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Slaw (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Hat tip to the National Law Journal for this news: The Michigan Supreme Court has laid the hammer down on gadget-happy jurors in banning all electronic communications by jurors during trial, including tweets on Twitter, text messages and Google searches. The ruling, which takes effect Sept. 1, will require Michigan judges for the first time to [...]
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Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 07/02/2009
Michigan's universities have boosted tuition to make up for declines in state funding. Freshmen at Michigan's 15 public universities paid, on average, 27% more in tuition for the 2008-2009 school year than their counterparts three years earlier.
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Islam in Action (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Instead of showing some respect to our country this Four of July weekend, American Muslims are gathering in different locations to try and sell us the Islam means peace con , while shoving Islam down our throats. Approximately 30,000 Muslims are expected in Washington today in an "outreach" effort by the ISNA and about 1500 Muslims are gathering in Dearborn Michigan. One volunteer has called...
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The centre due to open on Wednesday (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
New bill would let terror victims sue rogue states. By STACY MEICHTRY and LIAM MOLONEY ROME Libya. Washington A dispute over compensation to a Michigan victim of Libya sponsored terrorism is holding up the nomination of a key State Spl sub woofer official. Next AU summit holds in Sirte, Libya, July. There is much more to life than arguing over abortion, gay rights, and so forth. When George W Bush...
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JSOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
Not many brides carve a skull-and-crossbones cheese sculpture for their nuptials, or tie the knot in pirate garb alongside a 32-foot armored vessel within hailing distance of Lake Michigan.
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3mnewswire.org (Free subscription) | yesterday
United Church of Christ Resolution to Teach LGBT Curriculum in Public Schools Violates Children - Confessing Movement Protests GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., June 30 /Christian Newswire/ -- A Resolution of the General Synod of the United Church of Christ concluding today in Grand Rapids, Michigan, calls for "diversity/multi- cultural education" in public elementary schools that includes, "the...
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The Essence of Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
With the school year fast approaching, many school districts blame the teacher shortage for their inability to fill teaching vacancies with certified teachers in areas such as math, science, English as a second language, and special education. But the so-called teacher shortage is a myth. School administrators struggle to find “certified teachers” to teach these subjects, yet many willing...
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MichiganLiberal (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Let's play a game of "Where's Waldo" with these photos, 'cept with a twist. Which one of these photos from various rightwing political rallies with a hilarious misspelling was taken today at the TEA Party at the Capitol, and what word is it? ...or... ...if you guessed correctly, your prize awaits below the fold! Distributed at today's TEA Party: Quoted thusly, the book advertised is a, "virtual...
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hogstr | 04/24/2009
Two Michigan men are facing felony child abuse charges after they allegedly punished a 6-year-old relative by burning his buttocks with a blowtorch
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livaneti | 03/16/2009
Kid Rock All Summer Long Music Video It was 1989, my thoughts were short my hair was long Caught somewhere between a boy and man She was seventeen and she was far from in-between It was summertime in Northern Michigan Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh Ahh Splashing through the sand bar Talking by the campfire It's the simple things in life, like when and where We didn't have no internet But man I never will forget
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prmac | 03/10/2009
Michigan based Humble Daisy is pleased to announce ProfCast 2.4.0 , a significant update to their flagship lecture recording and podcast creation solution for Mac OS X. ProfCast is a versatile, powerful, yet very simple to use tool for recording lectures including PowerPoint and/or Keynote slides for creating enhanced podcasts. ProfCast offers an integrated workflow that makes creating, recording,...
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