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City limits Happy Meals in veto override

Published Nov. 24, 2010 at 2:37 a.m.
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The San Francisco, California, Board of Supervisor banned most McDonald's Happy Meals with toys Tuesday. Despite objections and ridicule from opponents, the vote overrode the mayor's veto and officially approved the ban ...

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Evening Prowl: Local, national reaction on Victor Martinez signing with Detroit

Published Nov. 24, 2010 at 1:08 a.m.
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More photos » ... Charles Rex Arbogast - AP ... Victor Martinez will be a big bang in the middle of the Tigers' lineup, many note ... Browse more photos » ... A search around the Internet for Victor Martinez to the Tigers opinions didn't prove to be as fruitful as I hoped, but here's the results: ... MLB.com: Tigers close to finalizing deal with V-Mart ... With Jason Beck apparently away on a break, Anthony Castrovince steps in and points out that VMart struggles at Comerica Park: ... "That

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Treasury Gets $11.7B For GM Stock Sale

Published Nov. 23, 2010 at 9:14 p.m.
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The Treasury Department says it has received $11.7 billion from the sale of 358.5 million shares of General Motors stock ...

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Wayne Co. Airport Ranks First In Health

Published Nov. 23, 2010 at 8:17 p.m.
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Detroit's Metropolitan Wayne County Airport has topped a report that ranks the busiest healthy airports in the United States ...

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Martinez Headed To Detroit

Published Nov. 23, 2010 at 7:42 p.m.
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The Associated Press reported Tuesday afternoon that catcher Victor Martinez and the Detroit Tigers have reached a preliminary agreement on a $50 million, four-year contract ...

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GM To Rehire Flint Workers

Published Nov. 23, 2010 at 7:13 p.m.
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General Motors Co. plans to rehire nearly 200 workers in Flint, Mich., to make engines for the Chevrolet Volt electric car and Chevrolet Cruze compact ...

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Public coming around on auto bailouts

Published Nov. 23, 2010 at 3:55 p.m.

Polls have long showed high public opposition to the federal government’s bailout of GM and Chrysler in late 2008 and 2009, but a new poll for the first time shows that opposition slipping below 50 percent. The Detroit News reports:For the first time, opposition to the bailouts has fallen under 50 percent.A Rasmussen Reports national [ ... ] ...

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Tigers choose not to offer arbitration to anyone

Published Nov. 23, 2010 at 2:26 p.m.
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No surprise there. Detroit chose not to offer anyone arbitration, the Tigers announced via Twitter ... In addition to the big three of Johnny Damon, Gerald Laird and Magglio Ordonez, Bobby Seay and Jeremy Bonderman were also eligible but clearly would not be offered. All are eligible to re-sign with the Tigers ... So unlike like year where Detroit offered arbitration to Brandon Lyon and Fernando Rodney and were able to pick up a few extra draft picks, there will be none this year. If Detroit

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Lions Notes: Shaun Hill To Start On Thanksgiving

Published Nov. 23, 2010 at 8:06 a.m.
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Shaun Hill will start for the Lions on Thanksgiving against the Patriots. It will be his third consecutive start for the Lions. Earlier in the season, he started in five straight games ... The Lions only had a walkthrough on Monday, so we won't know more about their injury situation until Tuesday's practice. Even so, the early word on Jahvid Best, Tony Scheffler and Corey Williams is that all three could be out on Thursday since there is such a quick turnaround. That would be really bad news

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Kilpatrick claims he gave his computer to Cockrel

Published Nov. 23, 2010 at 1:27 a.m.

The mystery of Kwame Kilpatrick's missing computer deepened as the former mayor, in an affidavit submitted today, said his office computer was given to his successor, Ken Cockrel Jr. The computer itself was a hand-me-down from Kilpatrick's predecessor, Mayor Dennis Archer ...

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