The electric cars that will be on display in Detroit adopt one of two overriding design philosophies: make it exciting, or make it familiar.

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Design: It’s Electric. Should It Look Electrifying?

The electric cars that will be on display in Detroit adopt one of two overriding design philosophies: make it exciting, or make it familiar.

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Design: It’s Electric. Should It Look Electrifying?

A formal state review of Detroit’s books could lead to the appointment of an outside emergency manager to take over the city’s finances.

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Detroit Budget Crisis May Lead to Outside Manager

Washington has never been known as a pizza town. Unlike New York, Chicago or New Haven (or even Detroit, Trenton or St. Louis), D.C. doesn’t have a pizza style of its own — and no, jumbo slice doesn’t count. The city’s homegrown pizza parlors hadn’t exactly put it on the map over the years. But during the past decade — 2 Amy’s started the trend in 2001 — the landscape has changed, as a flood of Neapolitan and boutique pizza-makers raised the bar for Capital City pizza. Read full article > >

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D.C. public relations trailblazer Ofield Dukes died Wednesday in his hometown of Detroit at the Henry Ford Hospital after enduring a long battle with multiple myeloma, a a rare form of bone cancer. He was 79. “We are extremely saddened by the loss of our dear friend,” said Gregory Lee Jr., president of the National Association of Black Journalists. “Ofield Dukes revolutionized the public relations industry by increasing the visibility of African-Americans working in the field. Mr. Dukes will forever be regarded as a standard bearer for public relations professionals of all races. A true giant in the world of PR, he will truly be missed.” Read full article > >

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Ofield Dukes, PR legend dead at 79

As Detroit loses on Thanksgiving, again.

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Lions’ Suh Ejected for Kick

It is an unusually bountiful Thanksgiving for NFL fans. Four of the six teams involved in the day’s three-game football feast have at least a share of first place in their divisions. In two of the three games, both participants have records of 7-3 or better. The Green Bay Packers play at Detroit in the early-afternoon game while their closest pursuer for NFC supremacy, the San Francisco 49ers , are in Baltimore for the nighttime matchup that features the NFL’s first meeting of brothers as opposing head coaches. Read full article > >

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NFL Thanksgiving games provide a bountiful TV-fest for pro football fans

NEW YORK — Detroit’s Justin Verlander has become the first starting pitcher in a quarter-century to win a Most Valuable Player award, adding it to his Cy Young Award last week. Verlander earned the American League MVP honor Monday, receiving 13 of 28 first-place votes and 280 points in voting announced by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Read full article > >

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It’s likely few would have imagined a blowout on either side in Saturday night’s showdown between the Washington Capitals and Detroit Red Wings , the last remaining undefeated teams in the NHL. In one of their most thorough performances to date, the Capitals lit up Red Wings backup goaltender Ty Conklin for seven goals on 25 shots en route to a 7-1 drubbing at Verizon Center to remain perfect on the season. Read full article > >

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Capitals vs. Red Wings: Washington is NHL’s lone unbeaten team after rout

A guilty plea by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab took a federal court in Detroit by surprise as he admitted he tried to blow up an airliner with a bomb in his underwear for Al Qaeda.

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Would-Be Detroit Plane Bomber Pleads Guilty, Ending Trial

The smallest of the Detroit automakers early Wednesday tentatively agreed with the U.A.W. on a contract that would add 2,100 jobs.

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The trial of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the al-Qaeda suspect who allegedly tried to bring down a Northwest Airlines plane with a bomb hidden in his underwear in December 2009, will open Tuesday in Detroit amid some uncertainty about whether the Nigerian, who is representing himself, will offer a vigorous defense or attempt to use the courtroom as a political stage. Read full article > >

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NEW YORK — The Detroit Tigers have been miscast as a one-man team, a collection of role players riding one pitcher’s right arm all the way to October. They are so much more than that, and on the day their season hung in the balance, facing the pinstriped might of the New York Yankees , they consigned Justin Verlander to the dugout and proved what they really are: a threat to win the whole bloody thing. Read full article > >

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Detroit Tigers nip New York Yankees in deciding Game 5 to win ALDS

DETROIT — All the accumulated faith of every living New York Yankees fan in A.J. Burnett ’s ability to beat the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday night could have fit in the back pocket of Burnett’s gray uniform pants. In three short years with the Yankees he had gone from an $82.5 million workhorse to a maddening Jekyll-and-Hyde act to a disgraced bullpen exile to the last person anyone in pinstripes wanted to see on the mound in Game 4 of the American League Division Series. Read full article > >

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Yankees vs. Tigers: A.J. Burnett pitches New York to Game 4 victory in Detroit

Robinson Cano drove in six of New York’s nine runs as the Yankees jumped out to a 1-0 lead over the Detroit Tigers in the American League division series.

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