| Re-vote not expected to change decision on Kilpatrick ouster |
Minutes after voting to begin ousting Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, City Council members decided to reconsider the votes Tuesday afternoon. The drama came after the council voted 5-4 to begin forfeiture of office proceedings against Kilpatrick and ask Gov. Granholm to remove the mayor from office. Members also voted 7-2 to formally censure Kilpatrick.
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| Increased access, retention top agenda for Wayne State's president designee |
DETROIT -- Wayne State University's finalist for the president's post said Tuesday he plans to collaborate with the state's other research universities and leverage their collective power to spur economic development in the area and increase access to college.
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| Protecting Michigan's water wonderland |
State lawmakers are carefully maneuvering Michigan toward joining a historic international compact reserving Great Lakes water for the states and Canadian provinces around them.
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| Kilpatrick, Beatty preliminary exam pushed back to September |
DETROIT -- After a shaky start, 36th District Court Judge Ronald Giles this morning moved the preliminary examination of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and Christine Beatty, his former chief of staff, from June 9 to Sept. 22. The extension was to give their defense team more time to analyze thousands of pages of evidence against them by the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office.
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| Drivers, beware area's dangerous intersections |
According to the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, the junction of 11 Mile and Van Dyke is the worst intersection for accidents among Wayne, Oakland, Macomb and Livingston counties, racking up 654 crashes from 2003-07. But motorists in that area can soon breathe a little easier, according to Michigan Department of Transportation spokesman Rob Morosi. The agency spent $1 million to widen the turnaround on the east side of Van Dyke to two lanes and prohibited trucks from turning directly from the service drive onto Van Dyke.
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| Detroit council nixes plan to create land bank |
DETROIT -- Two votes today to establish a land bank in the city failed today.
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| Meijer fined the maximum for campaign law violations |
TRAVERSE CITY -- Retail giant Meijer Inc. has been fined more than $190,000 for campaign law violations in its effort to build a superstore in Grand Traverse County's Acme Township.
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| Battle Creek man tries to grab deputy's gun after conviction |
BATTLE CREEK -- A man punched a sheriff's deputy and tried to grab the officer's handgun from its holster after a judge in Battle Creek convicted him of murder in the killings of his wife and son.
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| State extends dioxin advisories for consuming wild game |
MIDLAND -- The state has extended advisories for consuming wild game from the Tittabawassee River and Saginaw River flood plains because of dioxin contamination from Dow Chemical Co.
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| Monroe man's King Kong vehicle rules the road |
MONROE, Mich. -- If your vehicle suddenly is swamped by a large shadow, it may just be Dereiq McCalister driving beside you.
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