Friday,  July 19, 2013 • Vol. 15--No. 05 • 26 of 31

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• "I guess we have to take a couple of steps backward to move forward," Frederick said.
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Column: Will bankruptcy-led rebirth finally lead to 'golden years' for Detroiters?

• DETROIT (AP) -- One of my earliest memories of growing up in Detroit is the first night the city burned during the 1967 riots. I was 5 years old, standing with my grandmother outside our clapboard home as the Michigan National Guard rolled down Warren Avenue.
• There was shooting and screaming. Buildings burned. A gas station exploded nearby. Sparks fell everywhere.
• It was the fiery baptism that would define Detroit over the next 46 years.
• I didn't live through Detroit's "Golden Years." By the time I was born, the Arsenal of Democracy, Motor City and Motown had grown tired. My hometown aged very badly, and at 4:06 p.m. Thursday, it became the largest city in U.S. history to go belly-up.

• The Detroiter in me wonders why it took so long.
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Police photog angry at Rolling Stone cover of Boston bombing suspect releases police photos

• BOSTON (AP) -- A police photographer, furious with a Rolling Stone cover photo he believes glamorizes the surviving Boston Marathon suspect, released gritty images Thursday from the day he was captured.
• Photos released to Boston Magazine by Massachusetts State Police tactical photographer Sgt. Sean Murphy show a downcast, disheveled Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with the red dot of a sniper's rifle laser sight boring into his forehead.
• The pictures were taken when Tsarnaev was captured April 19, bleeding and hiding in a dry-docked boat in a Watertown backyard.
• Murphy said in a statement to Boston Magazine that Tsarnaev is evil and that his photos show the "real Boston bomber, not someone fluffed and buffed for the cover of Rolling Stone magazine."
• The April 15 bombing killed three people and injured more than 260. Massachusetts Institute of Technology officer Sean Collier was allegedly killed April 18 by

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