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Nissan Motor lowers US sales forecast due to weak economy
- Nissan Motor Co. has lowered its forecast for total U.S. vehicle sales as the weak economy continues to wreak havoc on the auto industry.Dominique Thormann, senior vice president for administration and finance at Nissan North America, said Thursday that the company has lowered its industry forecast from 15.5 million vehicles to 15.2 million vehicles. Nissan's forecast covers its fiscal year, which began April 1 and will end March 31, 2009. Detroit mayor implements new text message policy
- Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has implemented a new policy that text messages sent on city-owned devices are considered private.Kilpatrick and his ex-top aide face perjury charges for testimony they gave during a whistleblowers' trial that they didn't have a romantic relationship. Sexually explicit text messages have contradicted that testimony. Judge to rule next week in comic book store slaying case
- A Macomb County judge says he will decide next week whether to overturn a man's first-degree murder conviction in the 1990 slaying of his wife at the comic book store they owned.Circuit Court Judge James Biernat said Thursday he will rule May 23 on defense lawyer Carl Marlinga's request to overturn the jury's guilty verdict. Michigan Senate approves bill managing water withdrawals
- The Michigan Senate has approved a bill managing large-scale withdrawals from the state's lakes and inland waterways.But Republicans and Democrats remain at odds over issues such as the size of allowable fish reductions in trout streams. New work permit OK'd for immigrant Kurd fighting deportation
- A Kurdish immigrant who is fighting deportation to his native Turkey says an application has been approved for renewing his U.S. work permit.Ibrahim Parlak tells the South Bend (Ind.) Tribune he was notified Tuesday, several months after his previous permit expired. Father, daughter accused of running prostitution ring
- A 43-year-old man and his 22-year-old daughter have been arraigned on charges related to running an Arenac County prostitution ring.Robert Burgess of Turner Township and April Stokr of Battle Creek are being held without bond in the county jail following their arraignment Wednesday on several counts of criminal sexual conduct. Michigan State Police say the assaults occurred at Burgess' home during a two-year period that ended more than a year ago. Billups ready for Game 1 of Eastern Conference finals
- All-Star point guard Chauncey Billups has practiced with the Detroit Pistons and is expected to be ready to play in Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals.Detroit coach Flip Saunders says Billups looked good enough in practice Thursday that he could have played if there was a game. Billups missed the last two games against the Orlando Magic in the second round with a strained right hamstring. Thursday's winning Michigan lottery numbers
- Here are the winning numbers selected Thursday in the Michigan State Lottery: Michigan House OKs worker activity bill
- Workers couldn't be fired for their off-the-clock activities, as long as they're legal and not done on the job site, under terms of legislation passed by the state House.The bills are designed to prevent employers from firing or not hiring workers who may smoke or engage in other legal behavior that some job providers frown upon. Trip to Cedar Point ends after student eats pot brownie
- A high school trip to the Cedar Point amusement park in Ohio was cut short for 200 students when one of them became ill after eating a brownie laced with marijuana, a district official said Thursday.The annual trip for West Bloomfield High physics students was cut short Wednesday when the student complained of sickness and was taken to a medical facility at the park in Sandusky, Ohio, said Joey Spano of the West Bloomfield School District. |
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