Detroit: Local News from the Detroit Free Press

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Here is the latest Local News from the Detroit Free Press.

7 brain-boosting foods to eat more often
Sharpen the mind and build brain cells with what you choose at the grocery store.

     

Teacher sick-outs close most Detroit schools for second day
Detroit Public Schools released a list of 90 closed schools as of 6:30 a.m. Tuesday.

     

Google, U-M to partner to help Flint water crisis
Google will partner with the University of Michigan and U-M-Flint to help sort data, create app.

     

Detroit union: No need for teachers to return to school Tuesday
They say district leaders refused to guarantee they’ll be paid for work already completed.

     

How much cash should Michigan public universities pour into athletics?
At each of Michigan’s 12 public universities, large chunks of the athletic budgets are from from general fund money.

     

Lunar Labs. Start up company for cheaper smartphones
Co-founder of Detroit based Lunar Labs, Hunter Rosenblume, 18, shows off the Android smartphone that lets customers pay 25 cents per use of each app for a 24 hour period. All texting and calling are free.

     

DPS legislation up for debate in House today
The teacher sick-out Monday that closed DPS schools make passing a fix for the district more challenging.

     

Prosecutors ‘under the gun’ on juvenile lifer decisions
As summer deadline approaches, prosecutors must review hundreds of cases, many of them cold.

     

Detroit start-up begins pay-as-you-go smartphone service
A Detroit start-up is aiming to revolutionize the cheaper end of the smartphone market with a pay-as-you-go data service

     

Detroit teachers union calls for a 2nd day of sickouts amid strife
Detroit Federation of Teachers rally outside the Fisher Building to protest news they won’t get summer paychecks.

     

Activist charges Macomb Democrats with collusion
Greg Murray filed the complaint against county Commissioner Fred Miller and Clerk/Register of Deeds Carmella Sabaugh.

     

St. Clair Shores man pleads no contest in fatal crash
He is accused in the death of a Roseville High School senior football player; injuring others in the vehicle he struck.

     

Pay 25 cents per app for a smartphone from this Detroit startup
A Detroit startup is aiming to revolutionize the cheaper end of the smartphone market with a pay-as-you-go data service

     

Complaint: Macomb politicians colluded on ‘suspicious’ election fix
Greg Murray filed the complaint against county Commissioner Fred Miller and Clerk/Register of Deeds Carmella Sabaugh.

     

DPS legislation up for debate in House Tuesday
The teacher sick-out Monday that closed DPS schools make passing a fix for the district more challenging.

     

Detroit Metro Airport names new spokesman as Michael Conway retires
Brian Lassaline replaces longtime spokesman Michael Conway, who has retired.

     

Protester gets hand kicked by officer
Jean Vortkamp, of Detroit, gets her hand kicked by a Detroit Police officer for writing a message in chalk in front of Fisher building. Mandi Wright

     

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