Word: townships
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just a few communities south of Flint, in the rural lakefront enclave of Highland Township, train jumping has been elevated to the status of an art form. For generations, on any given weekend during summer, as many as three dozen kids might jump a train, eventually reminiscing the joy rides into tall tales. To be sure, getting onboard isn't that tough. The trains routinely stop at the Hop-In Grocery for a coffee break. But when the train gets going, it really gets going. The wheels clank heavily against the tracks and the cars rattle and shake fiercely...
...Highland Township teenagers who hopped the CSX train on June 18 were far from pros. Afraid to jump off at Holly, they froze and wound up 25 miles north in a rough section of Flint. One of the boys, Michael Carter, 14, ended up dead. Another, Dustin Kaiser, 15, was beaten brutally before taking a bullet in the head. And the third, Nicole, 14, whose family asked that only her first name be used in this story, was pistol-whipped and shot in the face after being forced to perform oral sex. A few days later, six suspects, four...
...With reporting by Julie Grace/Highland Township...
...strong winds swept the little building into the air and sent it crashing into Lake St. Clair. On the east side of Detroit, witnesses said a tornado lifted a house off its foundation and tossed it several feet into an alley. A 38-year-old woman from Mount Morris Township, near Flint, was also killed by a falling tree. "It looked like "The Wizard of Oz,'" said one local resident. The storms blanketed Michigan, Indiana and Ohio with dark, menacing clouds, drenching the region with heavy rains that left some roads flooded up to car windshields...
Jamison, artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and 28 members of her internationally acclaimed troupe began an emotional 15-day tour of South Africa last week. In Johannesburg, Pretoria and the sprawling black township of Soweto, the troupe presented hands-on workshops and dazzling stage performances of Ailey classics, including Night Creature, Vespers and Revelations. Enthusiastic audiences clapped, whooped and sometimes danced in the aisles...