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A place with more kinds of rabbits than you ever knew existed needs to pull one of them out of a hat.
Barring an outright miracle, America's oldest state fair ends today. Not just ends for the season, at 10 p.m., but ends forever, after 161 years.
The governor has made it clear that there will be no more bailouts for the fair. She thinks there's more profitable use to be made of 164 acres at one of Michigan's busiest intersections.
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He'd been waiting for test results.
His voice last week sounded strong -- as strong as always. By the end of the conversation, however, it didn't.
Ernie Harwell, the treasured voice of the Tigers for all those years, has incurable bile duct cancer. In comments to the Detroit Free Press on Thursday, he said he won't undergo surgery.
But in those same comments, he said he's ready for the next adventure.
It's been no secret lately that Ernie -- as nearly everyone knows him -- hadn't been feeling well. He was in the hospital, then out. There'd been speculation about pneumonia. But most of all there'd been speculation something was wrong.
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He is best known for painting the Mona Lisa, but there was more to Leonardo Da Vinci than that mysterious smile on canvas. The Grand Rapids Public Museum is offering a look at Da Vinci's hand-designed devices with the "Machines in Motion" exhibit. Da Vinci produced more than 10,000 drawings and sketches, which are brought to life in a hands-on way.
Chris Carron with the Grand Rapids Public Museum says, "You know, we have these things that work every day in our lives- automobiles and dishwashers- and we can't see how they work, they're covered up and it's sort of a great mystery to us.
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WNEM.comAbout 180 hourly workers at Flint’s Truck Assembly plant are being laid off.
The workers have low seniority and are losing their positions at the plant to workers with more seniority from General Motors Pontiac Assembly plant.
The layoffs will take effect in the middle of October and will continue through November.
The Pontiac plant is closing its doors and many of its workers will be reassigned to the Flint plant.
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Examiner.comUnited States Attorney Terrence Berg, joined by Robert Corso, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration and Andrew G. Arena, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation Detroit Field Office, announced that a Farmington osteopathic physician pleaded guilty Thursday to charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance.
Sohrab Shafinia, D.O., 48, entered the guilty plea in United States District Court, Detroit, before the Honorable Julian Abele Cook, Jr. Shafinia admitted that, between October of 2005 and May of 2007, he wrote prescriptions for over 18,000 dosage units of Oxycontin™ and its generic equivalent oxycodone HCL, in exchange for cash payment.
Berg said, “The type of criminal violations committed by Shafinia, a licensed doctor, constitute a total abuse of trust by the physician that endangers the safety of their patients. Doctors who risk the safety of the public for personal gain can expect to face charges and as well as prison.”
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Detroit Free PressThe top Democrat in the Michigan Legislature continues to take heat from labor unions over his proposal to consolidate public employee health benefit plans across the state.
House Speaker Andy Dillon says the health care plan could save taxpayers about $900 million a year once fully implemented, mostly by cutting administrative costs and increasing buying power through pooling. But unions representing public employees consider the proposal an assault on collective bargaining and say it could lead to reduced benefits for workers.
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Auto BlogEverybody has their own definition of cool, and the Woodward Dream Cruise may be the ultimate microcosm for the wide-ranging tastes of auto enthusiasts. While most cruisers show up with classic muscle cars or perfectly preserved classics, automotive outliers seem to prefer more abstract expressions. We just so happen to love both – because it just isn't a party without the guy with the lampshade on his head.
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Searching as they have to find another big bat for their lineup, the Tigers realize they have it.
Carlos Guillen is back from a long hiatus and knocking in runs, four of them Saturday night, as the Tigers thumped the Kansas City Royals, 10-3, at Comerica Park.
Guillen missed most of the spring and early summer because of a shoulder problem that still prevents him from batting right-handed, not that it seemed to slow him down Saturday in front of a typically festive crowd of 37,376.
He had a two-run home run in the fifth that turned a 4-2 Tigers lead into a 6-2 contest; he singled in the first Tigers run in their half of the first after the Royals had taken a 2-0 lead off starter Edwin Jackson; and he drove home Detroit's seventh run in the sixth on a line single to left-center.
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