It’s almost time for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games! This year, they are being held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from February 12-25. We wanted to find out which American athletes we should be watching as they go for the gold in 2010!
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10 US Olympians To Watch In 2010
On February - 17 - 2010
At 89, ex-pilot still flying high
On November - 23 - 2009
To Brighton resident Norman Allen, the duties he carried out as a pilot in World War II were “no big deal,” but the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medals and two Battle Stars he earned tell a different story.
Allen, now 89, flew more than 200 missions for the U.S. Army Air Force — most of them out of Chittagong, India — for the 4th Combat Cargo Squadron.
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There’s no doubt now: Stafford is strong enough to lead
On November - 23 - 2009
The clock read 0:00, but Matthew Stafford kept scrambling, kept surviving, kept searching for a way to keep alive a game initially declared dead early in the first quarter. His heart raced at a velocity comparable to the rockets fired from his right arm.
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Funeral today for 15-year-old Jamar Pinkney
On November - 23 - 2009
Mourners are expected to crowd Second Ebenezer Church in Detroit this morning for the funeral of 15-year-old Jamar Pinkney Jr., shot in the head by his father last week.
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The parking lot overflowed for calling hours Sunday at Clora Funeral Home on 7 Mile as family and friends arrived to comfort Jamar’s mother, Lazette Cherry. Many carried handkerchiefs and boxes of tissues. Some wore T-shirts with a picture of the smiling boy and the words “We Love You Jamar.”
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Michigan remains a magnet for Iraqi refugees
On November - 23 - 2009
The U.S. government resettled Mazen Alsaqa in Massachusetts in February. Within a month, the Iraqi refugee moved to Michigan.
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It wasn’t that Alsaqa disliked Worcester, Mass. But he never thought twice about staying. Although the U.S. government tried to keep him away from metro Detroit and its soaring unemployment, this was the only place Alsaqa wanted to live.
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Ford chief is staying, but not forever
On November - 23 - 2009
Ford’s Executive Chairman Bill Ford likes to joke that President and CEO Alan Mulally, who saved his great-grandfather’s auto company from the brink of ruin and has become a beloved and respected figure at Ford, won’t be leaving anytime soon.
“It’s a 25-year contract,” Ford gleefully told the Free Press in March.
By all accounts, Mulally, known for his laser-like focus and folksy, upbeat attitude, also enjoys working at Ford.
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Inside Cox’s interview with Kilpatrick
On November - 23 - 2009
On a June day in 2003, Attorney General Mike Cox and a top aide prepared to sit down with Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in what would become a controversial meeting that left questions hanging over an investigation that cleared the mayor and key staffers of misconduct allegations.
With the meeting set to begin in a couple of hours, a Cox staffer knocked at his door.
“The Detroit police are here,” Cox recalled being told. The staffer said the mayor’s bodyguards wanted to do a security sweep of Cox’s offices.
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Arsonist Suspected In 8 Fires Overnight
On October - 11 - 2009
Detroit firefighters suspect a serial arsonist is on the loose on the city’s east side.
Since midnight Saturday, eight houses have been set on fire, according to the Detroit Fire Department.All the houses were vacant and within a one-and a half mile radius of one another.Fire investigators are asking anyone who may have seen something to come forward.
