New Detroit newspaper on hold
ROYAL OAK -- A new Detroit-area newspaper says it will stop publishing until after Jan. 1.
The Detroit Daily Press hit the streets Monday, and home delivery was planned for next week. But on its Facebook page, the paper said Friday there's been a lack of advertising, sales and distribution. The paper calls it "just a bump in the road."
A recorded phone message says there will be no paper for six weeks.
Publishers Mark and Gary Stern said they created the paper to provide seven-day-a-week home delivery after The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press reduced home delivery to three days a week.
Mom gets 20 years for urine scheme
ADRIAN -- An Adrian mother will serve up to 20 years in prison for giving her 4-year-old daughter synthetic heroin in a scheme to pass a drug test.
The Daily Telegram of Adrian reports that the minimum sentence given 31-year-old Randi Marie Carr by Lenawee County Circuit Court Judge Margaret Noe is four years and nine months.
Carr was prescribed methadone to treat a heroin addiction. She was being monitored from a 2008 drug case and wanted to use her daughter's urine to pass a drug test. The child was given methadone so testers would believe the urine being tested was Carr's.
New buyers emerge for GM's Saab unit
STOCKHOLM -- A spokeswoman for General Motors Co.'s Saab unit says several potential buyers have expressed interest in the Swedish brand after a car maker nixed a deal to acquire it.
On Tuesday, a group led by Sweden's Koenigsegg Automotive AB dropped out of a deal to buy Saab that had been in the works since June.
Saab spokeswoman Gunilla Gustavs says a few potential buyers have approached Saab since the deal fell through. She didn't identify the potential suitors Friday.
A person briefed on GM's plans said Wednesday that it hasn't talked with any potential buyers. Saab has been in a court-protected restructuring since Feb. 20.
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