| December 18, 2012 | - The owner of Soapy's Car Wash in Paw Paw, Michigan, found a heart on the floor of one of the wash bays. “We're obviously hoping it's an animal,” said the village police chief.
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Kalamazoo Gazette
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| January 28, 2009 | - In an elevator shaft in an abandoned building in Detroit a man was found frozen in a block of ice, with only his feet sticking out. “Yeah,” said one homeless man squatting nearby, “he's been down there since last month at least.” The fire department eventually arrived with a chainsaw, and another homeless man, when asked if he knew the deceased, said, “I don't recognize him from his shoes.”
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Detroit News
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| December 4, 2008 | -
Representatives of the Big Three car companies, facing their lowest sales in decades and, in the case of Chrysler and General Motors, imminent collapse, again appeared before Congress (traveling by car and commercial flights this time, rather than on private jets) to ask for $34 billion in aid, a few billion less than the value of Harvard University's endowment four months ago, before it lost $8 billion.
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KansasCity.com
Source 2:
The Guardian
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The Wall Street Journal
Source 4:
The Financial Times
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| September 5, 2008 | -
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty to two felonies, including lying under oath, and agreed to spend four months in jail, pay $1 million, and resign from office. “I want to tell you, Detroit,” he said, “that you have set me up for a comeback.”
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Washington Post
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| January 26, 2008 | - A 93-year-old man in Michigan died of hypothermia after Bay City Electric Light & Power restricted service to his home as a result of unpaid bills.
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Boston Herald
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| October 9, 2007 | - The Republican candidates for president gathered in Dearborn, Michigan, for a debate on the economy. Mitt Romney, who was born in Detroit, bemoaned the “one-state recession“ gripping Michigan; Duncan Hunter repeatedly blamed the loss of American manufacturing jobs on free-trade policies with “communist China”; Ron Paul attributed the large profits of hedge-fund managers to a conspiracy among politicians, banks, Wall Street, the Federal Reserve, and the military-industrial complex to inflate or destroy currencies and swindle the middle class; and John McCain advised Paul to read ”The Wealth of Nations." The candidates generally agreed that taxes are too high. “We’re taxed to the max,” said Sam Brownback. Mike Huckabee touted his Fair Tax proposal to abolish the IRS and to tax consumption as a way to shift the tax burden onto drug dealers, pimps, prostitutes, and illegal immigrants. Paul and Tom Tancredo refused to pledge to support the Republican nominee in the general election.
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New York Times
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| March 21, 2007 | -
Al Gore returned to Capitol Hill to testify that global warming is a planetary emergency. Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts called Gore a prophet, and Rep. John Dingell of Michigan addressed him as “Mr. President.” Joe Barton of Texas, the leading Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, told Gore he was “totally wrong” and that, if need be, Republican lawmakers would stay late for an “all-out cat fight” with Democrats. Ralph Hall, also of Texas, speculated that Gore's attack on the energy industry could result in war “when and if OPEC nations abandon the U.S.A.,” and Roscoe Bartlett (R., Md.) said that he thought it was “probably possible to be a conservative without appearing to be an idiot.”
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AP vie Breitbart
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Huffington Post
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| November 19, 2006 | - Football coach Bo Schembechler died and Ohio State beat Michigan 42-39.
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ESPN
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The New York Times
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| May 30, 2006 | - A potent drug cocktail killed at least 48 people in Detroit.
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Detroit Free Press
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| April 4, 2006 | - Someone was mutilating and killing the dogs of Superior Township, Michigan.
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WHIO-TV
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| April 3, 2006 | - Scientists in Michigan determined that children behave better after their tonsils are removed.
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Forbes
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| February 5, 2006 | - Before the Super Bowl, Detroit presented Steelers running back Jerome "The Bus" Bettis with a key to the city; he is the first person to receive the key since it was given to Saddam Hussein.
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JournalNow.com
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| February 3, 2006 | - In Detroit the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Seattle Seahawks in the Super Bowl. The Department of Homeland Security monitored the event using holograms.
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CNET News.com
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| December 23, 2005 | - In Warren, Michigan, a 14-year-old boy allegedly raped a 12-year-old girl in a church bathroom during a Christmas play.
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WXYZ.com
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| December 8, 2005 | - A police officer in Hamtramck, Michigan, tasered his partner during an argument over whether to stop their car to buy a soda.
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MSNBC
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| November 23, 2005 | - Violent shopping incidents occurred in Hamilton Township, New Jersey; Elkton, Maryland; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Orlando, Florida; and Sunrise, Florida, where a 72-year-old woman was trampled.
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WTOPNews.com
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NBC10.com
Source 3:
The Miami Herald
Source 4:
Reuters
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KYW.com
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| August 5, 2005 | - A man in Royal Oak, Michigan, attempted to fend off police with a medieval-style sword while wearing chain mail.
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FoxReno.com
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| August 5, 2005 | - A Michigan woman beat her boyfriend with his own prosthetic leg.
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ABC12.com
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| July 16, 2005 | - In Traverse City, Michigan, a woman drowned in a vat of cherries.
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Detroit Free Press
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| July 12, 2005 | - A thirteen-year-old boy in Kalamazoo accidentally burned down the family meth lab.
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WWMT.com
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| May 13, 2005 | - Three Michigan judges decided that a cable show featuring a man's joke-telling penis was more about indecent exposure than free speech.
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ABC News Online
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| May 5, 2005 | - Eighty-eight members of Congress signed a letter, written by Representative John Conyers of Michigan, calling for an inquiry into a British memo that implied that George W. Bush had already decided to go to war by July 2002. “This should not,” wrote Conyers, “be allowed to fall down the memory hole during wall-to-wall coverage of the Michael Jackson trial and a runaway bride.”
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The Raw Story
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| May 4, 2005 | - A papyrologist at Oxford University announced that new techniques in spectral imaging, which make it possible to decipher previously illegible ink on papyrus fragments, have yielded parts of a lost tragedy by Sophocles, a novel by Lucian, and an epic poem by Archilochos; researchers also applied the technique to third- and fourth-century manuscripts of the Revelation of Saint John and discovered that the number of the beast, contrary to popular belief, is 616, the area code of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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National Post
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| March 26, 2005 | - At a mall in Michigan, a twelve-year-old boy punched the Easter bunny in the nose.
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Boston.com
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| February 7, 2005 | - A four-year-old Michigan boy snuck out of the house and drove his mother's car to a video store.
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CNN.com
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| January 11, 2005 | -
Herpes struck the horses of Michigan.
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San Jose Mercury News
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| October 31, 2004 | - There were reports of gay-marriage push polls in Michigan.
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Talking Points Memo
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| October 13, 2004 | - People in Detroit were debating the wisdom of creating an "Africa Town" district, where the city would give special loans to black businessmen.
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New York Times
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| October 8, 2004 | -
Republicans in Michigan were calling on authorities to prosecute Michael Moore for offering to give clean underwear to college students if they would promise to vote.
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Associated Press
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| April 11, 2004 | -
Children in Flint, Michigan, found two loaded pistols during an Easter egg hunt.
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Flint Journal
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| December 18, 2001 | - In Michigan, a postal worker pleaded guilty to throwing ten gallons of porcupine feces on his colleagues.
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