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Local News - Detroit Free Press en-us Three Michigan private campgrounds are among the top-rated in the United States. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Detroit/Detroit_Free_Press/SIG=12l7hegl6/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Farticle%2F20091125%2FNEWS06%2F91125032%2F1001%2Frss01 http://www.freep.com/article/20091125/NEWS06/91125032/1001/rss01 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:21:43 +0000 The state has found more money to keep the Michigan Youth Challenge Academy -- a military-style residential school in Battle Creek that caters to troubled teens -- from having to close Dec. 26. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Detroit/Detroit_Free_Press/SIG=12lpj5psb/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Farticle%2F20091125%2FNEWS06%2F91125058%2F1001%2Frss01 http://www.freep.com/article/20091125/NEWS06/91125058/1001/rss01 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:21:42 +0000 Jurors deliberated for a third day today in the first-degree murder trial of 16-year-old Jerome Hamilton but went home for a long holiday weekend without reaching a verdict. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Detroit/Detroit_Free_Press/SIG=12li7cvr5/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Farticle%2F20091125%2FNEWS03%2F91125057%2F1001%2Frss01 http://www.freep.com/article/20091125/NEWS03/91125057/1001/rss01 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:36:43 +0000 A retired Detroit police officer whose drunken outing in January 2007 left a man in a nearly vegetative state for more than two years will face up to 15 years behind bars, a Macomb County jury decided today. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Detroit/Detroit_Free_Press/SIG=12ltob3fs/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Farticle%2F20091125%2FNEWS04%2F91125042%2F1001%2Frss01 http://www.freep.com/article/20091125/NEWS04/91125042/1001/rss01 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:52:14 +0000 After Detroit members of the U.S. Coast Guard spent hours searching for a missing boater in March, a 22-year-old Toledo man has been ordered to pay $112,735 in restitution to the agency for calling in a fake distress call. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Detroit/Detroit_Free_Press/SIG=12lbhipme/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Farticle%2F20091125%2FNEWS05%2F91125038%2F1001%2Frss01 http://www.freep.com/article/20091125/NEWS05/91125038/1001/rss01 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:21:50 +0000 Hot nourishing meals will make for a memorable Thanksgiving feast for thousands of metro Detroit senior citizens thanks to the combined generosity of a recent Ford Motor Company Fund grant and the volunteer efforts of many. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Detroit/Detroit_Free_Press/SIG=12lcrmhkf/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Farticle%2F20091125%2FNEWS01%2F91125030%2F1001%2Frss01 http://www.freep.com/article/20091125/NEWS01/91125030/1001/rss01 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:21:49 +0000 Detroit Police are going to start towing all cars parked on Woodward Avenue between East Warren and Jefferson at 3 a.m. Thursday in preparation for the Thanksgiving Day Parade. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Detroit/Detroit_Free_Press/SIG=12l2onm1c/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Farticle%2F20091125%2FNEWS01%2F91125026%2F1001%2Frss01 http://www.freep.com/article/20091125/NEWS01/91125026/1001/rss01 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:22:13 +0000 Two Ypsilanti men have been charged in connection with the chase and collision that left two Northville Township police officers injured this week. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Detroit/Detroit_Free_Press/SIG=12lo90tit/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Farticle%2F20091125%2FNEWS03%2F91125024%2F1001%2Frss01 http://www.freep.com/article/20091125/NEWS03/91125024/1001/rss01 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:06:54 +0000 Sentencing was postponed today for a Belleville man busted with 80,000 images and 2,000 videos of child pornography. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Detroit/Detroit_Free_Press/SIG=12ljhmhho/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Farticle%2F20091125%2FNEWS02%2F91125016%2F1001%2Frss01 http://www.freep.com/article/20091125/NEWS02/91125016/1001/rss01 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:22:24 +0000 An Inkster police officer was injured late Tuesday while investigating a suspicious vehicle at the Bungalow Motel, 28505 Michigan Ave. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Detroit/Detroit_Free_Press/SIG=12lkjr0ra/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Farticle%2F20091125%2FNEWS02%2F91125014%2F1001%2Frss01 http://www.freep.com/article/20091125/NEWS02/91125014/1001/rss01 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:06:43 +0000 Police in southwestern Michigan no longer are looking for a man they initially believed had bitten a teenager's neck following a recent screening of the hit vampire film "The Twilight Saga: New Moon." http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Detroit/Detroit_Free_Press/SIG=12ludt5de/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Farticle%2F20091125%2FNEWS06%2F91125010%2F1001%2Frss01 http://www.freep.com/article/20091125/NEWS06/91125010/1001/rss01 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:36:43 +0000 The key to keeping kids from dropping out of school may not be hidden in the halls of high schools but instead in elementary schools like Hope Academy in Detroit. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Detroit/Detroit_Free_Press/SIG=12m0kv84u/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Farticle%2F20091125%2FNEWS05%2F911250313%2F1001%2Frss01 http://www.freep.com/article/20091125/NEWS05/911250313/1001/rss01 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:39:36 +0000 Jurors deliberating this morning asked to see several hours of videotaped testimony in the murder trial of Jerome Hamilton, 16, charged with shooting to death a Rib Rack restaurant manager in Lathrup Village more than a year ago. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Detroit/Detroit_Free_Press/SIG=12lq8tisd/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Farticle%2F20091125%2FNEWS03%2F91124041%2F1001%2Frss01 http://www.freep.com/article/20091125/NEWS03/91124041/1001/rss01 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:39:25 +0000 With Tuesday's removal of its aging kitchen, the Royal Oak Farmers Market will soon finish a 12-year transformation. "It looks like the Oklahoma Dust Bowl," Market Master Gwen Ross exclaimed, as a wrecking crew worked. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Detroit/Detroit_Free_Press/SIG=12mgk0k8j/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Farticle%2F20091125%2FNEWS03%2F911250339%2F1001%2Frss01 http://www.freep.com/article/20091125/NEWS03/911250339/1001/rss01 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:39:16 +0000 One of the two teens convicted of killing a student outside of Ford High School in Detroit last fall was sentenced Tuesday in Wayne County Circuit Court, according to the state Attorney General's Office. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Detroit/Detroit_Free_Press/SIG=12mnq6s82/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Farticle%2F20091125%2FNEWS01%2F911250323%2F1001%2Frss01 http://www.freep.com/article/20091125/NEWS01/911250323/1001/rss01 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:39:05 +0000 WASHINGTON -- Detroit Edison and advanced battery maker A123 Systems will use $5 million from the U.S. Energy Department to see whether used-up batteries from the cars of the future can store emergency power for the electrical grid. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Detroit/Detroit_Free_Press/SIG=12mtbdirm/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Farticle%2F20091125%2FNEWS06%2F911250316%2F1001%2Frss01 http://www.freep.com/article/20091125/NEWS06/911250316/1001/rss01 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:38:55 +0000 Gov. Jennifer Granholm signed legislation Tuesday that exempts baby-sitting from day care regulations after the state ordered a Barry County woman to stop watching her friend's children before school. The Republican-led Senate approved the bill on a 37-0 vote earlier this month. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Detroit/Detroit_Free_Press/SIG=12md323h9/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Farticle%2F20091125%2FNEWS06%2F911250342%2F1001%2Frss01 http://www.freep.com/article/20091125/NEWS06/911250342/1001/rss01 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:38:45 +0000 Macomb County commissioners balanced their 2010 budget Tuesday -- erasing the last of a record $15.7-million deficit -- but the spending plan may draw a lawsuit and result in the closure of an additional 168 beds in the jail. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Detroit/Detroit_Free_Press/SIG=12m7pfqg5/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Farticle%2F20091125%2FNEWS04%2F911250337%2F1001%2Frss01 http://www.freep.com/article/20091125/NEWS04/911250337/1001/rss01 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:38:35 +0000 Police have arrested the last two suspects sought in a police chase and collision Monday morning that injured two Northville Township police officers, one seriously. The two suspects were found in the area of Meads Mill Middle School on Franklin Road about 7:30 p.m. Monday, said John Werth, Northville Township public safety director. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Detroit/Detroit_Free_Press/SIG=12mo2bmc2/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Farticle%2F20091125%2FNEWS02%2F911250376%2F1001%2Frss01 http://www.freep.com/article/20091125/NEWS02/911250376/1001/rss01 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:38:33 +0000 Utica Community Schools is asking employees to voluntarily accept a three-day unpaid furlough this school year to reduce the district's anticipated $19-million deficit by about $2.8 million. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/local/Detroit/Detroit_Free_Press/SIG=12mjmeef5/**http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freep.com%2Farticle%2F20091125%2FNEWS04%2F911250373%2F1001%2Frss01 http://www.freep.com/article/20091125/NEWS04/911250373/1001/rss01 Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:38:11 +0000 Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:21:43 +0000