Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix is free today - Detroit Free Press

DETROIT BELLE ISLE GRAND PRIX: The Prix is free — at least for one day! There’s no admission charge for the Detroit Belle Isle Grand Prix today. Champion driver Emerson Fittipaldi will drive the pace car for the Detroit Sports Car Challenge on

Protests idle Indian factory building cheap car - Detroit News
NEW DELHI — Tata Motors halted work Friday at a factory manufacturing the world’s cheapest car in eastern India as thousands of angry farmers protested outside for compensation for their land, a company official said. The move cast further doubt on

Police looking for suspect in jewelry theft - Des Moines Register
A box containing more than $11,000 in jewelry has been stolen from a Des Moines home. Mary Ann Bishop, 26, filed a report with police on Thursday saying the jewelry box was taken from her home in the 400 block of East Livingston Avenue sometime

Hawaii still not sure who it will throw at Florida - Honolulu Advertiser
ATLANTA — The Hawai’i football coaches believe it is never too early to prepare for the nation’s fifth-ranked team. And that is why the Warriors started yesterday’s practice at 8:30 a.m. — or 2:30 a.m. Hawai’i time. “I thought my players would

Attention on auto woes no victory - Detroit News
The Michigan Democratic and Republican leaders who defied national party rules by holding an early primary got their wish: The state’s industrial economic woes, inextricably tied to the decline of Detroit’s automakers, are atop this year’s

July incomes drop by largest amount in 3 years - Nashville Tennessean
WASHINGTON — Personal incomes plunged in July while consumer spending slowed significantly as the impact of billions of dollars in government rebate checks began to wane. The Commerce Department reported Friday that personal incomes fell by 0.7

140 Des Moines vehicles have been targets of thieves this summer - Des Moines Register
Authorities in the Des Moines area say thieves have targeted credit cards in break-ins of 140 vehicles this summer. “We’re fairly sure it’s the same group that is responsible for most of these,” said Neil Shultz, spokesman for the Polk County sheriff

Obama says he will fix ‘broken’ washington - Poughkeepsie Journal
DENVER - Before an enormous, adoring crowd, Barack Obama promised a clean break from the “broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush” Thursday night as he embarked on the final lap of his audacious bid to become the