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Detroit Mayor Dave Bing talks during an interview with the Associated Press in Detroit, Thursday, June 14, 2012. Bing says the Motor City is in the late portion of its comeback effort, down double digits and he has the ball. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Mixed reaction to Michigan emergency manager ruling

Jay Scott Smith
DETROIT – With Friday’s 4-3 ruling by the Michigan Supreme Court that Public Act 4, the state’s controversial Emergency Manager law, would be up for a repeal vote on the November ballot and opponents of the law trumpeted it as a victory for democracy...
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Detroit Mayor Dave Bing talks during an interview with the Associated Press in Detroit, Thursday, June 14, 2012. Bing says the Motor City is in the late portion of its comeback effort, down double digits and he has the ball. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Michigan voters get say on emergency manager law

Associated Press
LANSING, Mich. (AP) - An attempt to kill a Michigan law that gives emergency managers sweeping powers to fix poor communities' finances will appear on the November ballot, the state Supreme Court said Friday, handing unions a major victory in their clash with Republican Gov. Rick Snyder over the law...
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Joshua Smith sells a lemonade and popcorn to raise money for Detroit

9-year-old raises over $1,000 for Detroit

Jay Scott Smith
DETROIT - What started off as a seemingly innocent way for a young man to help the city he loves, has turned into an international outpouring of support. In just three days, the Detroit lemonade stand started by 9-year-old Joshua Smith has made over $1,200 and his family still intends on donating the money to the city...
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In a July 31, 2012 photo, Ella Dunn is seen on her porch in Detroit. Dunn has watched nearly all of her neighbors move away in the 24 years she's lived on Lyford. At night and even during daylight hours she hears cars and trucks and people dumping tires, furniture and other trash along the street. Abandoned lots, alleys and neglected parks in Detroit used to be a favorite destination for discarded tires and trash. But over the past few months they have become dumping grounds for the dead. At least seven bodies have been found in some of the most desolated haunts in a half-empty city. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Vacant Detroit becomes dumping ground for the dead

Corey Williams, Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) - From the street, the two decomposing bodies were nearly invisible, concealed in an overgrown lot alongside worn-out car tires and a moldy sofa. The teenagers had been shot, stripped to their underwear and left on a deserted block...
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Joshua Smith sells a lemonade and popcorn to raise money for Detroit

Detroit 9-year-old sells lemonade to save city

Caryn Freeman
theGRIO REPORT - A 9-year-old boy in Detroit has decided to lend a helping hand in raising money for his cash-strapped city...
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Quintin Berry #52 of the Detroit Tigers reacts to scoring a run in the third inning while playing the Chicago White Sox at Comerica Park on July 20, 2012 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

Is Quintin Berry baseball's next great black hope?

Jay Scott Smith
theGRIO REPORT - Little did Quintin Berry know in April that he would be come the X-factor for a team that is fighting to win its first World Series in 28 years...
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Lions release Aaron Berry after second arrest in 4 weeks

Jay Scott Smith
theGRIO REPORT - Aaron Berry was arrested on Saturday in his hometown of Harrisburg, Pa. and charged with three counts of assault...
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Black Child During Detroit's Race Riots In 1967. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images)

'67 Detroit riots revisited

Jay Scott Smith
theGRIO REPORT - Today, 45 years later, the 1967 Riots are seen as more than four days of destruction and mayhem; it became the seminal moment of the last half-century for Detroit...
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Medicaid and Medicare could threaten access to 24/7 emergency room care.

EMS fail to show after apparent suicide of 9-year-old

Similoluwa Ojurongbe
theGRIO REPORT - In an apartment building in Detroit, 9-year-old Jarod Barnett plunged to his death in what appears to be a suicide...
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Portrait of Flirty African-American in the car with mobile phone

Black entrepreneur may acquire telecom firm

Caryn Freeman
theGRIO REPORT- Joseph Durham and a group of private investors are in talks to acquire Voxplus a Detroit-based Telecom firm that provides telecommunications solutions, alternative voice solutions, data access and ISP services...
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