Detroit Free Press News
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The Dallas Stars fired General Manager Jim Nieuwendyk after the team missed the National Hockey League playoffs for a fifth straight year, while the Colorado Avalanche dismissed coach Joe Sacco.
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Former Detroit Lions defensive tackle Alex Karras has been given days to live after suffering kidney failure within the past two weeks, the Detroit Free Press reported, citing a friend of the Karras family.
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Jack Kevorkian , the defiant physician known as Dr. Death who was hailed as a compassionate visionary for igniting a national debate on assisted suicide and reviled as a ghoulish publicity hound, has died. He was 83.
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Unions went for broke in Michigan and they lost big time.
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Emanuel Steward, who trained Thomas Hearns, Lennox Lewis, Wladimir Klitschko and other boxing champions as he built Detroit’s Kronk Gym into one of the most influential centers in the sport, has died at the age of 68.
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Alex Karras, who followed one successful career in professional football with another in movies and television, play-punching a horse in one of the signature madcap scenes of “Blazing Saddles,” has died. He was 77.
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Tom Gores , the founder of Platinum Equity, gained unanimous approval from the National Basketball Association’s board of governors to purchase the Detroit Pistons.
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Michigan voters voided a 2011 law that gave state emergency managers broad powers to cut spending and avoid bankruptcy for stricken cities and school districts.
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Detroit had its debt reduced deeper into junk status by Fitch Ratings, which cited the city’s potential default on a bond payment June 15 because of a legal dispute with the state over a financial rescue plan.
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Michigan Governor Rick Snyder said he wants to avoid appointing an emergency manager for Detroit, which faces an estimated $150 million deficit.
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