In sports, where men routinely beat the odds, the buzzer, the spread, the rap, their man to the basket and the goalie like a rented mule, the only thing you're not allowed to beat is traffic.
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Elizabeth Edwards left everything to her children, with no mention of her estranged husband, John Edwards, in her will.
Leon Walker, a Detroit, Michigan, computer technician, faces a jury trial in February for allegedly hacking into his then-wife's e-mail account.
A Michigan man is charged with a 5-year felony for checking his estranged wife's email.
The Queen of Soul has a private nurse at home, but hopes to attend concerts soon
A federal grand jury has indicted the imprisoned former mayor of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick, on new charges including racketeering, extortion, bribery and filing false tax returns, authorities said.
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Family worries about a crude oil pipeline on their land. Congress may soon strengthen rules. CNN's Chris Welch reports.
Officials discuss oil cleanup efforts following a pipeline break in a creek that feeds into the Kalamazoo River.
Michigan's governor and the boss of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Friday they believe "significant progress" has been made on cleaning an oil spill on the Kalamazoo River, but the spill remains a serious situation.
After taking the title Sunday, Lebanon-born Rima Fakih is ready to eat pizza
Forty-four Detroit schools and one administrative building will close in June under a $1 billion plan unveiled Wednesday by the city school district's emergency financial manager.
Detroit Public Schools financial manager Robert Bobb announces the closure of 44 schools.
Jim Press, the former head of Toyota's U.S. operations and the only non-Japanese ever to sit on the automaker's board of directors, released a statement today blaming the company's troubles on "financially oriented pirates" who "hijacked" the company some years ago.
Three runners died Sunday during the Detroit Free Press/Flagstar Marathon in Detroit, Michigan, police told CNN.
Three runners died while competing in the Detroit Marathon/Half Marathon. Affiliate WDIV reports.
This was Christmas night. In the basement of a church off an icy street in downtown Detroit, four dozen homeless men and women sat at tables. The smell of cooked ham wafted from the kitchen. The pastor, Henry Covington, a man the size of two middle linebackers, exhorted the people with a familiar chant.
DETROIT (AP) -- A Michigan judge says former Detroit Red Wings star Sergei Fedorov is entitled to $60 million from a man accused of failing to meet a loan obligation to the hockey player.
Michigan's Supreme Court issued an order Tuesday allowing lower state courts to "exercise reasonable control" over the appearance of witnesses and parties, a rule change proposed after a Muslim woman refused to remove an Islamic garment in a small claims court.
More than 20 of Detroit, Michigan's public schools may close and 600 teachers will be laid off in an attempt to reduce a projected $303 million deficit, the state-appointed financial manager of the schools said Thursday.
The Detroit Public School system may shut down over 20 schools. WDIV's Jim Kiertzner reports.
As one might expect, the gathering of the Newspaper Association of America annual convention was a somber and lightly attended affair, relatively speaking. Highlights, if you could call them that, included bold talk of reinvention and threats from the Associated Press to clamp down on online pilfering of its content.
San Francisco Chronicle has reached a tentative agreement with its largest union on contract concessions, a key step in keeping the newspaper from being sold or closed, officials announced Monday.
The San Francisco Chronicle is in danger of being sold or closed if it doesn't stop bleeding millions, officials said Tuesday, putting the city at risk of becoming the first U.S. metropolis without a major daily paper.
Top executives from General Motors and Chrysler will meet with members of President Obama's auto team Thursday. To say the stakes couldn't be higher would be to understate the seriousness of the situation.
Ron Asheton, the guitarist for the influential punk rock band The Stooges, was found dead this morning, police tell the Detroit Free Press.
The Detroit Free Press and Detroit News will become the first major metropolitan newspapers in the U.S. to end daily home delivery, the papers announced Tuesday.
A merger between U.S. automakers General Motors Corp. and Chrysler is likely on hold until after next week's presidential election, as the U.S. Treasury Department said it will not provide the automakers with aid, the Detroit Free Press reported Friday.
Embattled Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will not plead guilty Wednesday in connection with his text message scandal, a representative for a Michigan prosecutor said, despite an earlier statement that said he would.
A prosecutor made a surprising offer Friday to Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick: resign by Sept. 3 in exchange for the dismissal of one of two assault charges. But Kilpatrick rejected the deal
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was jailed Thursday after a judge found he had violated terms of his bond by taking an unauthorized trip to Canada last month.
A judge orders Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to jail citing an unauthorized trip to Canada while he was on bond.
The husband of U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow told police he used the Internet to make a date with a prostitute and paid her $150 for sex at a hotel, according to a police report.
Chris Lawrence reports on the indictment of Detroit's mayor in a case involving sex, steamy text messages and a coverup.
Not guilty pleas were entered Tuesday for Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former chief of staff in a scandal in which they are accused of lying under oath about an affair.
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former top aide pleaded not guilty
Tuesday to charges they lied under oath about having an affair
Kwame Kilpatrick isn't about to resign gracefully in the face of perjury charges. In fact, there's nothing graceful about the case
Ray Davis, senior vice president of zoological operations at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, talks about a ray accident.
Florida officials investigate after a woman in a boat was hit in the head by an eagle ray and killed.
A Florida Fish and Wildlife official says an eagle ray leaped from the water, struck a woman on a boat and killed her.
A woman who died after she was hit by a spotted eagle ray leaping from the water off the Florida Keys suffered "multiple skull fractures and direct brain injury," a medical examiner said Friday.
A woman on a boat died after a spotted eagle ray leaped from the water off the Florida Keys Thursday and struck her, officials said.
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick offered an abject apology to his constituents Wednesday, but remained adamant that he would not resign following a newspaper report that he exchanged romantic text messages with his chief of staff.
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick exchanged romantic text messages with his chief of staff, a discovery that contradicts the pair's testimony in a police whistle-blower trial last summer, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Celebrated men's figure skater Christopher Bowman, widely known as "Bowman the Showman," was found dead on Thursday in a Los Angeles-area budget-motel room, say authorities.
I've finally gotten the last word in my 28-year joust with my former boss, James Walker Michaels, but not the way I wanted to.
Ford Motor may seek deeper cost cuts from the United Auto Workers union than those that the union granted to General Motors, according to a published report.
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Stocks pointed to a narrowly weaker open Friday despite a tame inflation reading as investors awaited a host of economic reports.
A deal now in the works between the United Auto Workers and General Motors could include a large signing bonus for workers at the plant as a way of winning approval for the automaker shedding billions in retiree health care costs, according to published reports.
CNN's Maggie Lake test-drives the European Smart car that debuts next year as the smallest car on the U.S. market.
Chauncey Billups' agent on Tuesday night denied that the point guard has agreed to a deal to stay with the Pistons.
General Motors is shifting about 500 engineers within the company with the aim of having the first fuel-cell-powered car on the market as soon as 2010, according to published reports.
A man accused of killing and dismembering his wife and hiding some of her remains in their Detroit-area home has given a "lengthy confession" to police, Macomb County Sheriff Mark Hackel said Monday.
Stocks were poised to one last shot at breaking the all-time closing record Friday, helped by strong earnings news from the tech sector and despite news of a consumer spending slump in August.
Saturn will begin selling a hybrid SUV sometime in the middle of next year, an executive with the General Motors division said at an executive seminar Wednesday.
General Motors could raise the incentive to the general public in line with the discounts it offers its own employees, according to a published report.
General Motors Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner denied a published report Monday saying the automaker plans to cut 8,000 jobs, or 7 percent, in its U.S. division over the next 12 months.
Kmart Holdings Corp.'s sale of 13 stores to home-improvement retailer Home Depot Inc. could cost as many as 1,200 jobs, according to a report published Friday.
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Ron Stodghill, a new senior editor at FSB, arrived when we were rushing to close the magazine and barely had time for introductions, much less orientation. But in characteristic fashion, Ron pitche...
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