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(CNN) — Dr. Thomas Frieden, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was arrested Friday and charged with forcible touching, according to the New York Police Department. A law enforcement official told CNN that authorities filed three charges against Frieden stemming from an alleged incident in his home in Brooklyn Heights in October. Frieden, 57, who ...

Try interactive music-making Friday night at The Cube in the Max.   Summer is drawing toward an end. Get out and enjoy inviting activities in good weather. Forget the binge watching. Friday Campus Martius “Beach” party: Second-to-last free weekly event starts at 5 p.m. with cash bash from the Fountain and live reggae ...

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(CBS)-– Lyft is making sure you have no excuse to keep you from casting your vote by helping get people to the polls in November. The company has announced they they’ll offer half-price rides through their app to encourage voter turnout in the upcoming midterms. It will certainly help because, in 2016, 15 million people registered to vote but never ...

Back in the day, the Lindell AC bar at the corner of Cass and Michigan in downtown Detroit was the place to go before or after a Tigers  game. It was a true sports bar, supposedly America’s first, and it was often filled with baseball players after games.   The hamburgers were great. Ditto for the atmosphere. ...

New York Yankees vs. Baltimore OriolesFriday, August 24, 2018, 7:05 pm ET New York Yankees -180 The trusty projection model has the Yankees beating the Orioles in 70 percent of simulations for their Friday showdown and by a margin of nearly two runs per contest. These numbers are lopsided enough to justify laying the price. New York is 4-1 in ...

LANSING (AP) — The Michigan Court of Appeals on Wednesday ordered that an initiative to raise the state’s minimum wage to $12 be placed on the November ballot, rejecting the restaurant industry’s challenges to petition signatures and how the measure is written. In a brief 2-1 order, Judges Stephen Borrello and Jane Beckering said the One Fair Wage proposal does ...

Mayor Mike Duggan: “The state must ensure . . . fair and equitable rates.” (file photo) Anyone who lives in the Detroit knows how outrageously expensive car insurance can be. Mayor Mike Duggan makes another effort to tackle that issue. Duggan, along with eight citizens, filed a lawsuit Thursday against the state’s insurance commissioner. They ask ...

(CNN Money) — CNN said Wednesday evening that Paris Dennard has been suspended from his commentary role, pending an examination of the allegations against him in a Wednesday Washington Post story. The Post reported that Dennard was fired from a job at Arizona State University “for making sexually explicit comments and gestures toward women.” The Post obtained a copy of ...