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Frank DeFrank

The Macomb Daily

Mount Clemens, MI, United States

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Past articles by Frank:

Lake Shore voters to decide $35 million bond proposal

A year after Lake Shore Public Schools voters rejected a $35 million bond proposal to finance building and technology improvements, district officials will bring back virtually the same proposal. → Read More

A minute’s worth of Macomb County history

Got a minute?The folks from the Mount Clemens Public Library and Macomb Cable Network hope you do. → Read More

IB academies among best in state, nation

Macomb County’s two International Baccalaureate academies are among the most-challenging high schools in Michigan and the nation, according to rankings released this week by two national publications. → Read More

Virtual reality program raises learning threshold in Utica schools

An image of a human heart appeared on the computer screen in a specially equipped classroom at Ebeling Elementary School in Macomb Township. → Read More

Roseville High School student earns $5,000 grant for journalism program

Roseville High School senior Troy Frank hopes one day to be a sportswriter. → Read More

Armada Township fire claims woman

Fire investigators Monday morning remained at the scene of an Armada Township house fire that claimed the life of a woman. → Read More

Boy, 6, battling cancer hopes to visit pope

The words, spoken by her son, Gabriel, were “a dagger to the heart” of Daniela Richard of Clinton Township. → Read More

‘Getaway’ driver in party store slaying sentenced to life in prison

A 31-year-old Detroiter was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole for his role in the death last year of a Clinton Township party store owner. → Read More

Gunk falls from the sky in Harrison Township

It’s a bird. It’s a plane.It’s gunk. → Read More

Foes challenge constitutionality of ‘gag order’ law

Opponents of a law that restricts the ability of public officials to communicate information to voters have taken their fight t → Read More

Man pleads ‘guilty, but mentally ill’ to strangling wife and two children

Two psychologists who examined Timothy Fradeneck deemed the Eastpointe man mentally ill when he killed his family last year. → Read More

Officials protest new ‘gag order’ law

About 75 government and education officials from Macomb and Oakland counties vowed Thursday to pressure the state Legislature to repeal a new law that → Read More

Ceremonies, celebration mark Martin Luther King Jr, Day

As a little girl growing up in Detroit, Camilla Smith, of course, heard of Martin Luther King Jr. → Read More

School bus driver faces charges after crash

A New Haven Community Schools bus driver faces charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated and child endangerment after she crashed a school bus into a parked vehicle, police said. → Read More

Interfaith Center hosts 29th Martin Luther King Jr. event

While incarcerated in a Birmingham, Ala. jail in 1963 for demonstrating without a permit, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. learned that local clergy had criticized his Civil Rights activities as “unwise and untimely.” → Read More

AAA gas report a mixed bag as supply likely to keep prices down

AAA Michigan’s latest report on gas prices is a bit like the half-full or half-empty glass of water. → Read More

Youth soccer coach to face trial for child molestation

A 12-year-old girl told a judge Wednesday she was sexually molested by her youth soccer coach while a guest of one of the coach’s children at a sleepover. → Read More

Sibling rivalry plays out on national stage

Maxwell Bradley, a junior at Michigan State University, offered a simple message to his younger sister. → Read More

School, government officials rip information ban

Legislation that would prohibit school districts and other public bodies from disseminating information about tax proposals within 60 days of the vote was panned Wednesday by school and government officials. → Read More

MCC awarded $300,000 grant to study success/failure of transfer students

Macomb Community College is one of three entities in the nation to share in $1.1 million in grants from the Kresge Foundation to help improve the post-secondary success of low-income students. → Read More