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Body of girl, 15, found strangled in Oak Park A teenage girl from Royal Oak Township was found strangled on Saturday afternoon in a park near the Michigan State Police barracks in Oak Park. Oak Park police said Sunday that they first saw the body after it was discovered by passersby around 5:30 p.m. Saturday. Free Press story 
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With the athletes of a record 202 nations on the ground and spectacular fireworks in the air, the Olympics conclude in Athens. With 103 medals, the United States won the most. In the marathon, the final event, American Mebrahtom Keflezighi captured a silver.
Creating a new opera in Detroit Composer, others harmonize their ideas in the story about a fugitive slave Opera composers and opera producers don't always see eye-to-eye, but over at the Detroit Opera House, the principals of a drama as thrilling as any real-life potboiler have bonded like expectant fathers in a maternity ward. Michigan Opera Theatre is giving birth to "Margaret Garner," a new American opera based on a fugitive slave story, that features some of the top names in the business. Free Press story
Wayne County | Oakland County | Macomb County
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More than 10,000 athletes, and Athens
was thrilled for the very last one.
"Sometimes I try" to stop, marathoner Marcel Matanin said,
"but the people around me say, 'You must run, run, run.' "
He ran, ran, ran. Matanin arrived at Panathinaiko Stadium
40 minutes after the men's marathon winner, Stefano Baldini
of Italy.
But he arrived. And the crowd, which was still singing and
dancing and celebrating, cheered for Matanin. Welcome to
the party. 
At the Polish Market in Riverview, a store that specializes in Polish foods, clerk Joanna Szajewska restocks the display cooler with a variety of kielbasa and other sausages. Euro Mart, another market specializing in Polish foods, has also opened in Riverview.
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