From grills to fireworks, how to spark up the holiday
Show off your patriotism and enjoy one of your inalienable rights -- the pursuit of happiness. Spend today, the Fourth of July, in whatever red, white and blue fashion your heart desires. Here are four ways to enjoy the long weekend. - 4:52 pm
Friday, July 4, 2008
FBI probe extends to Kilpatrick adviser
DETROIT -- The FBI is interested in questioning a Democratic National Committee member and political aide to Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in connection with a city hall sludge contract and public corruption probe, a source familiar with the investigation told The Detroit News. - 5:02 pm
GM may bring minicar to U.S.
General Motors Corp. is reviewing its product range following radical shifts in demand in the U.S. auto market and may even bring a minicar to the United States that was originally designed for customers in Asia and Latin America. - 4:52 pm
Former GOP Sen. Jesse Helms dies
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Former Sen. Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists and occasionally a fellow Republican, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86. - 6:12 pm
Has Michigan passed its tipping point?
Daniel Howes: There's far more weighing on southeast Michigan than the harrowing reckoning and threat of bankruptcy swamping the Detroit auto industry, its suppliers, their employees and their communities. - 4:52 pm
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Nation/World
- Former Republican NC Sen. Jesse Helms dies at 86 - 06:39 PM
- US soldiers in Iraq mark Fourth of July - 06:32 PM
- Joy in video of Colombia hostage rescue - 05:21 PM
- Wind keeps California fires raging on 2 fronts - 06:33 PM
Michigan
- Automotive industry cuts become campaign issue - 01:14 PM
- Researchers to scan Lake Erie battlefield - 04:02 PM
- Thousands still without power after Mich. storms - 05:37 PM
- Michigan seeks disaster declaration after storms - 04:16 PM
Page Ones
- Events: Rothbury music festival
- Photos: Rothbury prepares for rock festival
- Photos: Rothbury Festival gets under way
- Photos: Rothbury Music Festival, Day Two
- Bal Africain will honor jazz great Al Jarreau at DIA
- Aerosmith starts new 'Guitar Hero' line
- Adam Graham: Rothbury or bust
- Dave Matthews Band fits in
Music fans pour into Rothbury
Adam Graham: According to festival director Jeremy Stein, more than 30,000 fans - more than 80 percent of ticket buyers - arrived Thursday for the first day of the holiday weekend-long festival. - 1:27 pm
Tigers bounce back
SEATTLE -- One more Tigers personality trait has shown up a month after the Tigers decided they really were a good baseball team. - 2:42 am
Sister Act: Serena stands in the way of Venus' fifth Wimbledon title
WIMBLEDON, England -- A spot in her seventh Wimbledon final already secured, Venus Williams headed back to Centre Court to catch the end of the next match. - 1:42 am
- Lions-NFL: Kevin Jones' rehab mentor
- Olympics: Hansen shut out in 200 breaststroke
- Columnists: Champions compete just for kicks
- More Sports: Eat-off settles Coney Island hot dog contest
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- PDF: Kilpatrick's motion to suppress text message evidence
- PDF: Kilpatrick's challenge on text message authenticity
- PDF: Beatty's motion to suppress text messages
- PDF: Beatty's motion for bill of particulars
- PDF: Beatty's motion for sanctions
- Photos: Judge keeps Kilpatrick documents sealed
- Patriotism in action: Americans express love of country in many ways
- Good, clean fun: Health officials say pollution at local beaches is down
- Detroit takes heat over plan to ticket unlicensed bicycles
- Michigan set to reform foster care
Texts of mayoral insiders sealed
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy has gathered evidence against Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and Christine Beatty through text messages from 25 pagers, including the city-issued devices used by the mayor's dad, wife and several others, according to affidavits filed Thursday. - 2:57 pm
- Obama eases Iraq stand
- Cox sues Blues over funds
- Group's ads target Obama
- States' unemployment funds dwindling
McCain plans Michigan stop
Republican presidential candidate John McCain will make his first Michigan appearance in two months when he travels to Belleville for a town hall meeting next week, part of a weeklong campaign swing focusing on jobs and the economy. - 1:00 am
- Former EMU official up for high school job
- Two Mich. students charged in videotaped school attack
- Suit: DPS had little oversight
- Campaign seeks to land MSU research facility
Teacher gets prison time
DETROIT -- A former Plymouth Christian Academy teacher who had sex with 15-year-old former student says she made "the worst possible choice." The victim's mother agrees. - 1:37 pm
- Flight cuts reduce frequent flier seats
- Firms offering fewer temp jobs
- Employers cut over 60,000 jobs in June
- Business briefs
Tent sales pop up with gas prices
High gas prices are expected to deter long-distance travel this summer, but campgrounds and camping equipment suppliers are getting a boost from Michiganians opting for "stay-cations." - 1:00 am
