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City limits Happy Meals in veto override

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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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Treasury Gets $11.7B For GM Stock Sale

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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

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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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GM To Rehire Flint Workers

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Published Nov. 23, 2010 at 7:13 p.m.

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

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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

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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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Kilpatrick claims he gave his computer to Cockrel

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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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Judge sets Dec. 1 hearing on Kilpatrick's discarded computers

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Published Nov. 22, 2010 at 5:57 p.m.

A federal judge today scheduled a hearing for Dec. 1 before deciding whether to sanction the city of Detroit for destroying ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's computer 2008 while lawsuits were pending involving e-mails and text messages ...

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New $4 million Roger Penske Detroit Fund to help city's homeless

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Published Nov. 22, 2010 at 4:58 p.m.

Marti Benedetti - Two vehicles staffed with people and the resources to help downtown Detroit's homeless residents will be able to continue to cruise city streets because of the creation of the $4 million Roger Penske Detroit Fund ...

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Attorney: Stripper 'very scared' to testify she saw lap dance, assault at party hosted by ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick

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Published Nov. 22, 2010 at 3:06 p.m.

An attorney representing the family of murder victim Tamara "Strawberry" Greene says a fellow stripper is "very scared" after testifying she witnessed Greene dancing at a long-rumored party thrown by former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick at the Manoogian Mansion ...

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