MIKE HOUSEHOLDER

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Michael Jackson latest to get the Cirque treatment

Michael Jackson long has been intertwined with the Beatles and Elvis Presley.

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HUD secretary announces cities plan in Detroit

The Obama administration is launching a pilot program designed to spark economic growth in urban America by partnering federal officials with local decision-makers in six cities, the U.S Housing and Urban Development secretary announced Monday.

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Former first lady Betty Ford dies at 93

Betty Ford said things that first ladies just don't say, even today. And 1970s America loved her for it.

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Ex-Detroit mayor's book covers affair, legal saga

Disgraced former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick claims in an upcoming book that an unspoken alliance of political adversaries, Detroit business leaders and an aggressive media capitalized on a sex and perjury scandal to send him from leading one of America's largest cities to a prison cell.

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APNewsBreak: Police detail attack on Bronco player

Denver Broncos defensive player Jason Hunter was struck in the left upper chest by a kitchen knife hurled at him by his girlfriend during an argument over cell phones, according to a police report obtained by The Associated Press.

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Art museum to open in rough section of Detroit

A nonprofit group is trying to restore Detroit's status in the art world by drawing artists to an unlikely place: a century-old former bank in a neighborhood so infested with crime that some of the building's pipes were stolen and its windows riddled with bullets.

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Kid ready to Rock Detroit baseball park in August

Kid Rock stormed a Detroit riverfront beach with friends by paddleboard Thursday to announce a hometown concert at the city's baseball park this summer.

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Kid Rock presents checks to 5 Detroit-area groups

Kid Rock donated a total of $50,000 Monday to five Detroit area charities, fulfilling a promise the musician made to support his hometown.

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Disney: There's no place like Mich. for Oz prequel

Oz is hitting the yellow brick road for Michigan.

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Eminem to release EP with rapper Royce da 5'9"

Eminem and Royce da 5'9" are back recording together more than a decade after the Detroit rappers first joined forces.

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Billionaire Tom Gores to buy NBA's Detroit Pistons

The Detroit Pistons announced Friday that billionaire California investor Tom Gores has agreed to buy the struggling NBA franchise, ending a drawn-out sale by longtime owner Karen Davidson that stretched back before the season.

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Noted Detroit artist fills city block with shoes

Tyree Guyton is best known for transforming a deteriorating Detroit neighborhood into a colorful, outdoor polka-dotted art gallery.

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Calif. mother of 3 recounts life as an 'outlaw'

Marie Walsh says she was in prison for a drug crime she didn't commit, facing regular taunts and threats from inmates and guards, when her grandfather came to visit her and told her she had to get out.

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Ford CEO set to receive Edison Achievement Award

The legacies of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison are once again intersecting, 115 years after the legendary American innovators struck up what would become a lifelong friendship.

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Sheen gets cheers, not boos in second stop on tour

This time, Charlie Sheen's stage show began and ended with a standing ovation.

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Review: Journalist takes readers back to future

"Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now — Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything" (Ballantine Books), by David Sirota: Ah, the 1980s. Those carefree years spent spinning the gears of Rubik's Cubes, popping Pac-Man cartridges into Atari consoles, slipping on legwarmers or parachute pants, and checking out the latest episodes of "Family Ties," "Diff'rent Strokes" or "Knight Rider."

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Review: Sammy Hagar's book truly 'Uncensored'

"Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock" (It Books), by Sammy Hagar: There are tell-all books. And then there are tell-all books written by Sammy Hagar. The 63-year-old ex-Van Halen frontman holds back nothing — and I mean absolutely nothing — in his autobiography, "Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock."

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Detroit-area Mom Prom idea starting to spread

Like most prom dresses, Michelle Salamon's got stashed in a closet after the big night. The white floor-length gown she sewed during home economics class in 1990 languished for years until she learned about an event that gives mothers a charitable excuse to squeeze back into their youth.

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APNewsBreak: Footage shows explosion's aftermath

Newly released audio and video recordings reveal chaos, calm and acts of charity in the aftermath of a suspected gas main explosion that leveled a Detroit-area furniture store, leaving two employees dead and critically injuring the owner.

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Grammy-nominated R&B star El DeBarge enters rehab

R&B star El DeBarge, who earned a pair of Grammy nominations following his comeback album last year, has entered a rehabilitation center and dropped out of a national tour with KEM and Ledisi that's scheduled to kick off this week in Texas.

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Former Negro Leagues pitcher Cecil Kaiser dies

Cecil Kaiser, a diminutive left-hander who made $700 a month at the height of his Negro Leagues pitching career in the 1940s, died Monday at the age of 94.

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APNewsBreak: Woman says Lions player violated her

The woman who accused a Detroit Lions player of misbehavior at a private party earlier this month told police he lifted her shirt, The Associated Press has learned.

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Veteran rocker Bob Seger planning new tour, album

Veteran rocker Bob Seger and his Silver Bullet Band are heading out on the road for the first time in 4 1/2 years.

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No charges against Detroit Lions player

Prosecutors will not file charges against a Detroit Lions player who was accused of sexual misconduct by a woman during a private party at a restaurant in suburban Detroit.

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Kid Rock's 40th birthday bash includes 45K fans

Kid Rock took the stage in Detroit to a most fitting tune: "Birthday" by the Beatles.

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