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Oakland County News

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Investigators say deck fire was an accident

Commerce Township Fire Department officials requested and got an Oakland County Sheriff's Department fire investigator to assist in the investigation of a deck fire at a residence in the 2500 block of Baltusrol ...

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Related Topix: Commerce Township, MI, Natural Disasters, Wildfire, Fire

Wed Jul 23, 2008

Crain's Detroit Business

State high court overturns 2 decisions on firefighter layoffs

The Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed two lower court decisions involving firefighter layoffs in Detroit and Pontiac, setting aside injunctions that judges in Wayne and Oakland county circuit courts ...

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Related Topix: Wayne, MI, Wayne County, MI, Detroit Metro

ABC12.com

Accused members of Pierson Hood Gang in court

Tuesday nearly 20 people who investigators say are members of the dangerous Flint-area Pierson Hood Gang were in court for a preliminary hearing.

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Related Topix: Flint Metro, Detroit Metro, Flint, MI, Mount Morris, MI

WWUP-TV Cadillac

Man Who Killed at 11 Back in Court on Drug Case

Hide Video Oakland County prosecutors say police will testify about the arrest of Nathaniel Abraham on drug charges 15 months after he was released for a murder he committed when he was 11.

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Related Topix: Pontiac, MI, Detroit Metro

Tue Jul 22, 2008

Oakland Press

Pontiac hires player in text scandal

A good friend of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has a big job planned in Pontiac.

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Related Topix: Holly, MI, Detroit Metro, Detroit, MI, Construction, Retail

ClickOnDetroit

Texas Prof. Gets Probation For Stalking

A Texas scientist has been sentenced to three years of probation for making threatening phone calls to the Michigan parents of his daughter's ex-fiance, whom he blamed for his daughter's suicide.

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Related Topix: Suicide, Baylor College of Medicine

Oakland Press

Horse's rider found dead

About an hour after a man told police his horse returned home without his wife, who'd been riding it, a member of a search crew found the 41-year-old woman's body Tuesday about a half-mile from her home.

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Related Topix: Milford, MI

Mon Jul 21, 2008

Hometown Life

Man sought in fire at Madonna's house

The Oakland County Sheriff's Office has released a sketch of a man wanted for questioning in connection with the June 27 fire that damaged the Rochester Hills house that was once the home of Madonna.

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Related Topix: Rochester Hills, MI, Rochester, MI

C & G Newspapers

Police arrest two women after high-speed chase

Two Detroit women were arrested July 19 after stealing money from a West Bloomfield business, dragging a police officer with their vehicle and leading officers on a chase through several communities.

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Related Topix: Detroit Metro, Farmington Hills, MI, Ecorse, MI

MLive.com

Continue reading "Most eligible state kids miss free summer lunches"

Hundreds of thousands of Michigan children get free or reduced-cost lunches during the school year, but only a small fraction of those eligible get them in the summer.

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Related Topix: Family, Kids, US News, United States Department of Agriculture, Michigan, University of Tennessee System, Martin (University of Tennessee System)

Sun Jul 20, 2008

Hometown Life

Sheriff: Commerce man is murder victim

A Commerce man was found dead, lying in a pool of blood in his home around 1 a.m. on Tuesday, according to Oakland County Sheriff's deputies.

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Related Topix: Highland, MI, Milford, MI

Detroit Free Press

Deputies probe killing of man found dead in home

Oakland County sheriff's deputies continue to investigate the death of a 55-year-old Commerce Township man who was found slain in his home Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Commerce Township, MI, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Southfield, MI

Detroit Free Press

2 women arrested after high-speed chase, robbery

West Bloomfield Township detectives are interviewing two women after a high-speed police chase through several communities this evening that began when they fled the scene of a robbery, dragging a police ...

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Related Topix: West Bloomfield Township, MI, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Bloomfield Township, MI

Sat Jul 19, 2008

ClickOnDetroit.com

Police Investigate Slaying In Commerce Twp.

Police are investigating a slaying in Commerce Township. Authorities said a woman found her father dead around 1 a.m. on Tuesday in his home in the 1200 block of Sleeth.

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Related Topix: Commerce Township, MI

Innisfree

The Detroit scandals continue...

Second - pretty bright thing to do - spending money on the mayor's legal defense fund when you're delinquent in your taxes.

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Related Topix: Detroit Metro, Detroit, MI, Lathrup Village, MI

WJRT

Suspect sought in Thetford Township shooting

He was shot to death at his Genesee County home. Monday afternoon, police had two people in custody and they were still searching for a third suspect.

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Related Topix: Genesee County, MI, Clio, MI

Fri Jul 18, 2008

WOOD-TV Grand Rapids

Flags ordered lowered for Oakland County soldier

Gov. Jennifer Granholm has ordered flags to be lowered Tuesday in honor of a Waterford soldier whose remains were found 14 months after he went missing in Iraq.

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Related Topix: Waterford, MI, Iraq, World News

Oakland Press

Documentary about Lynch & Sons' nominated for Emmy Award

"The Undertaking," the look into the lives and work of Lynch & Sons Funeral Directors of Oakland County by PBS Frontline, has been nominated for an Emmy Award.

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Related Topix: Emmy Awards, Entertainment, Television, Milford, MI, Clawson, MI

Hometown Life

Woman faces charges from two-car accident

The Oakland County Sheriff's Office Lyon Substation is waiting until blood test results are in before charging a 35-year-old Wixom woman who was involved in a two-car accident around 9:43 p.m. on July 13 at ...

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Related Topix: Wixom, MI, Drug Testing, South Lyon, MI

Thu Jul 17, 2008

Spinal Column Newsweekly

Equestrian's death appears to be an accident

A call to the Milford Police Department reporting a loose horse resulted in the discovery of an apparent fatal equestrian accident the morning of Tuesday, July 15.

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Related Topix: Train Disaster, Milford, MI

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