Detroit Faces State Run as Budget Crisis Grows
Michigan Governor Rick Snyder moves to review Detroit finances with potential emergency manager power to privatize services and cut pay. Mayor Bing resists, saying Detroit must be run by Detroiters while seeking city-led reforms to close a 150 million dollar deficit.
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Detroit
Michigan
Rick Snyder
Dave Bing
Bing
Atlantic City
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Tom Corbett
Harrisburg
New York City
Hugh Carey
Michael LaFaive
Mackinac Center For Public Policy
Belle Isle
Island Park
LaFaive
Lansing
Andy Dillon
al Garrett
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Council
Oakland University
Auburn Hills
Mich
Activists sue to free Lolita the killer whale in Seattle
Animal rights groups and individuals sue the federal government in Seattle alleging the Endangered Species Act protections were misapplied by excluding captive orcas like Lolita at Miami Seaquarium. The suit seeks better living conditions and companionably for the 44 or 45 year old whale in Florida.
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Seattle
Northwest
Washington State
Lolita
Puget Sound
Miami Seaquarium
Karen Munro
Olympia
Wash
Animal Legal Defense Fund
People For the Ethical Treatment
Fisheries Service
Monica Allen
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Washington
British Columbia
Former sheriff charged in meth for sex case
A former Colorado sheriff once named Sheriff of the Year was charged with felony meth distribution and possession and misdemeanor soliciting prostitution after a sting. Patrick Sullivan Jr., 68, is jailed on 500000 bond at a facility named for him. Prosecutors allege he offered meth for sex from a male acquaintance.
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Denver
Colorado
Patrick Sullivan Jr
Arapahoe County
Grayson Robinson
Patrick J. Sullivan Jr
Sullivan
Sheriff's
Central Connecticut State professor's quirky obituary goes viral
Robert Spiegel, 77, former English professor at Central Connecticut State University, died in Berlin, Connecticut after dementia and heart disease. His son’s obituary praising his love of Russian literature, the Mets, ethnic cooking and beagles spread on social media, drawing strangers who wished they had known him.
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Hartford
Conn
Robert Spiegel
New York Mets
Central Connecticut State University
Spiegel
Berlin
New York City
Connecticut
Kevin Lynch
Central Connecticut
Brooklyn
Central Connecticut State
Ursula
Washington Square Arch
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