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"All-American Muslim," the reality TV show on TLC based in Dearborn, Mich., that ignited a national controversy, will not be back for a second season.

TLC, citing low ratings, cancels controversial reality show about MuslimAmericans

Last updated Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 10:38am

DETROIT -- "All-American Muslim," the reality TV show on TLC based in Dearborn, Mich., that ignited a national controversy, will not be back for a second season, the Detroit Free Press has learned.

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, speaks to supporters at his election watch party after winning the Michigan primary in Novi, Mich., Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Romney wins in Michigan by sinking a surging rival

Thomas Beaumont The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 10:52am

DETROIT -- Republican Mitt Romney staved off calamity in his presidential bid by returning to a familiar plan: Attack the surging rival.

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney greets supporters at American Posts in Toledo, Ohio, Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Victories give Romney pre-Super Tuesday momentum

Kasie Hunt The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 11:16am

TOLEDO, Ohio -- Mitt Romney is trying to capitalize on twin victories in Arizona and Michigan as the GOP nomination race expands to the 10 states that vote on Super Tuesday. Rival Rick Santorum, who narrowly lost in Michigan, faces splitting the conservative vote with Newt Gingrich as the former House speaker counts on Southern primaries to revive his campaign.

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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, left, greets Ann Romney and Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, at the Royal Oak Music Theatre in Royal Oak, Mich., Monday, Feb. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Romney says Santorum trying to 'kidnap' primary

Kasie Hunt The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 11:24am

LIVONIA, Mich. -- With voting under way in Tuesday's critical Michigan primary, Mitt Romney said he's struggling with the conservative Republican voters backing rival Rick Santorum in the state because he's unwilling to make the "incendiary" comments he said they want.

And, Romney acknowledged that his own mistakes aren't helping.

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, listens to a question from a reporter as he visits a campaign call center in Livonia, Mich., Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is at left. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Romney fights to avoid home-state embarrassment

Steve Peoples The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 10:33am

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Mitt Romney is fighting to avoid an embarrassing home-state loss in a high-stakes Michigan primary that will not decide the Republican presidential contest but could scar the former Massachusetts governor just a week before Super Tuesday.

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Romney-Santorum showdown could be in Ohio

Thomas Beaumont The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, February 27, 2012 - 2:49pm

FLINT, Mich. -- Regardless of the outcome of Republican presidential primaries in Michigan and Arizona on Tuesday, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum appear headed for a showdown next week in Ohio.

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Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks at the Livonia Chamber of Commerce breakfast, Monday, Feb. 27, 2012, in Livonia, Mich. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Santorum says Romney isn't conservative enough for GOP

Charles Babington The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, February 27, 2012 - 11:18am

MARQUETTE, Mich. -- The question of whether Mitt Romney is conservative enough to deserve the Republican presidential nomination regained center stage in the GOP contest Sunday, with Rick Santorum saying the former Massachusetts governor fails the test.

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It would be nightmare for Romney if he loses Michigan

Thomas Beaumont The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, February 25, 2012 - 10:53am

KALAMAZOO, Mich. -- Losing the Michigan primary would strip the last of the varnish off the image of Mitt Romney as the inevitable GOP presidential nominee and commit him to the long march he says he's in shape for.

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, greeets patrons at The Mitt Restaurant during a campaign stop in Mount Clemens, Mich., Friday, Feb. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Romney would raise eligibility age for Medicare

David Espo The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, February 24, 2012 - 5:15pm

DETROIT -- Four days before critical primary elections, Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney outlined a far-reaching plan Friday to gradually delay Americans' eligibility for Medicare as well as Social Security.

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Romney, Santorum battle in Michigan

Paul West, Seema Mehta Tribune Washington Bureau

Last updated Friday, February 17, 2012 - 7:20am

DETROIT — With a new poll showing a virtual dead heat in Michigan’s presidential primary, the leading Republican candidates veered Thursday from defensiveness to discomfort.

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This December 2009 file photo released by the U.S. Marshal's Service shows Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in Milan, Mich. Abdulmutallab is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, for trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner with a bomb in his underwear on Christmas 2009. (AP Photo/U.S. Marshals Service, File)

Nigerian underwear bomber gets life in prison

Ed White The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 6:35pm

DETROIT -- Defiantly declaring "a day of victory," a Nigerian man was given a mandatory life sentence Thursday for trying to blow up a packed jetliner with a bomb sewn into his underwear. People aboard the flight testified that the failed attack had disturbed their sleep and travels for more than two years.

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In this Aug. 30, 2011 file photo a 2011 Chevrolet Cruze is featured at a car dealership in San Jose, Calif. General Motors Co. said Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012, it made more money in 2011 than any year in its history. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

GM records its highest profit ever: $7.6 billion

Tom Krisher The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 16, 2012 - 10:34am

DETROIT -- General Motors earned its largest profit ever in 2011, two years after it nearly collapsed into financial ruin.

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Romney in an unexpected battle to win Michigan, his home state

Steven Thomma McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 8:04pm

WASHINGTON -- Once assured of victory on friendly turf, Mitt Romney faces a potentially devastating loss of his home state of Michigan to Rick Santorum, which could upend the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.

Romney, the son of a popular former Michigan governor and a onetime Detroit auto executive, finds himself trailing Santorum in one of two states that vote Feb. 28. The other is Arizona, but Santorum's concentrating most on Michigan. A Romney loss in Michigan could weaken him going into the 10 "Super Tuesday" states that vote on March 6 and throw the race wide open.

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Former Governor Jon Huntsman Jr. talks about the economy during an interview at the Standard-Examiner office in Ogden. (2008) (ROBERT JOHNSON/Standard-Exami...

Huntsman named a Ford company director

Dee-Ann Durbin The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 11:28am

DETROIT -- Two top Ford executives who helped lead the company's comeback from financial disaster are retiring.

Lewis Booth, chief financial officer, and Derrick Kuzak, product development chief, will retire on April 1. Both were once leading candidates to replace CEO Alan Mulally, 66, who said Thursday he has no plans to retire.

Also Thursday, Ford's board appointed former Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman Jr. as a company director.

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Student expelled for refusing to counsel gays can sue

David Ashenfelter Detroit Free Press

Last updated Friday, January 27, 2012 - 3:08pm

DETROIT -- An Eastern Michigan University student who was expelled from a counseling program because she refused to counsel gays and lesbians about their lifestyles won a key victory Friday in the U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals.

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