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The Clark Park Coalition has worked to keep Clark Park open for nearly 35 years as the city faced financial constraints.

City officials denied the development of a concrete crusher after developers appealed.

The Moroun family and the bridge company need the land to build a six-lane bridge linking Detroit and Windsor. The Ambassador Bridge has just four lanes. Some residents say an expanded bridge would bring more pollution, noise, traffic and property damage.

Council will soon vote on transferring land at 3805 W. Jefferson land to the Moroun family and the Detroit International Bridge Company to build a six-lane bridge linking Motown and Windsor.

>> jane, who just turned 16 the other day, told her parents and police a man took her into this apartment building and raped her. were just a few blocks away from her home and the cafe. according to court records and the police, the man is mentally ill and is well known in this neighborhood for his bizarre behavior. after the incident, many wanted to see a quick arrest, but it wasnt to be. jane reported the incident immediately, but police acknowledge it took weeks for a rape kit to be sent to t...

those were tough times. five years ago, plants like this one were closing their doors. and the day i stepped into the oval office, the american auto industry, which is the heartbeat of american manufacturing, heartbeat of american manufacturing. the auto industry was flatlining. ford was standing on its own two feet, had made some smort decisions, but allen will tell you, if gm and chrysler had gone down, suppliers would go down. dealers would have gone down. and all of that would have...

0 and millions of americans lost their jobs, their homes, their savings. they had been working a lifetime to get. but what the recession also showed was the fact that for decades, middle-class families had been working harder and harder just to get by, hadnt seen their incomes go up, hadnt seen their wages go up. manufacturing was moving overseas. and so what built our middle class had been buckling. had been weakening. and i think if you ask most americans when the economic crisis hit, they mig...