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4A WWW.FREEP.COM FRIDAY, DEC.9,2016 METRO EMPTY KETTLES: With three weeks left in the 2016 Red Kettle Campaign, the Salvation Army of Metro Detroit is only of the way to achieving its goal to ensure it can serve metro Detroiters in need throughout the coming year. If this pace continues, the Salvation Army will have an $840,000 budget shortfall by the end on Dec. 31. To volunteer as a bell ringer or to donate, go to www.salmich.org. Detroit Free Press staff Awoman in a yellow dress gazes at her cell phone as she stands inside a glass and concrete QLINE station.

A man waits a few feet away, and another man rushes to catch an approaching streetcar. The image is captured in the first rendering, which was released Thursday by M-1 Rail, showing the design planned for the 20 Detroit streetcar stations being built on Woodward Avenue. The 98-foot-by-12-foot sta- tions from Congress Street to West Grand Boulevard at the edge of North End will be heated and have security cameras, Wi-Fi, emergency phones and next-vehicle alert screens, according to a news release from M-1 Rail, the entity building the streetcar system. In addition, the stations, which were designed by Detroit-based architectural firm Rossetti, recognize each sponsor with an individual custom Pewabic Pottery tile corresponding to their corporate brand along with a plaque com- memorating their contribution to the the release said. Rip Rapson, president and CEO of the Kresge Foundation, touted the station design and what it will mean for the region.

Kresge donated $50 million to the project and assisted in developing the station design. designs affirm that from streetcars to stations, our entire region will soon have world-class transportation at its heart. The M-1 RAIL This rendering shows one of 20 stations along the upcoming QLINE streetcar route in Detroit. M-1 Rail gives first look at new QLINE stations See STOPS, Page9A By Eric D. Lawrence Detroit Free Press Winter driving season arrived in Michigan on Thursday with whiteout conditions that led to a 40-car crash and three dead on I-96.

It was a grim reminder of the kinds of conditions that can appear suddenly when frigid temperatures, high winds and snow combine. And with snow and freezing temperatures forecast for metro Detroit for the upcoming weekend, drivers will want to take it slow, especially over the next few days. pileup began when snow blanketed I-96 near Fowlerville around 9:30 a.m. When that blanket of snow froze, the road surface became treacherous. The crash left three people dead they have not been identified and 11 injured.

Some motorists had to be extricated. was very chaotic for them to get to the victims to assess the Livingston County Lt. Eric Sanborn said at a 3 p.m. news conference. Westbound I-96 was expected to be closed until later Thursday evening so vehicles could be removed.

The expressway was closed between M-59 and M-52. Eastbound was re-opened about 2:50 p.m. During or immediately after the crash, a tractor-trailer was jackknifed across most of the lanes of I-96, about a dozen cars and trucks were in the ditches of the median and shoulder of the road and several dozen more vehicles were smashed but had been able to pull off on the side of the road. AFree Press reporter traveling to Lansing heard most terrifying sounds ever as a tires skidded on the ice behind her. She had nowhere to go because traffic was at a standstill.

he was able to stop before plowing into reporter Kathleen Gray said, noting that probably took about an hour to get through the accident scene. Traffic was able to pull around the jackknifed tractor-trailer on the shoulder of the The crash offers a troubling reminder of other multi-vehicle crashes on interstates in recent years. Chaos on I-96 in deadly 40-car pileup 3killed, 11 injured in crash blamed on snowy roadway Detroit Free Press staff See CRASH, Page9A Asnowy weekend in metro Detroit will be followed by bone-rattling temperatures that could dip as low as the single digits. One to 3 inches of snow is expected to fall starting Saturday morning into Sunday, said Alex Manion, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in White Lake Township. possible to see a brief lull with the snow for the late morning hours on he said.

that will be fairly Forecasters yet estimated totals for the second wave of snow, expected to fall later Sunday into Monday. But Manion said there will likely be enough to impact travel. Then the big news: A blast of frigid arctic air that will invade the Northern and Middle Plains and the Midwest by the middle of the week. be feeling that big- time Manion said. looking at much colder air coming in from The cold will be similar in scale and magnitude to the infamous January 2014 Polar Vortex, meteorologist Ryan Maue of WeatherBell Analytics tweeted Wednesday.

Apolar vortex is a large area of cold air high up in the atmosphere that normally lives over the poles (as its name suggests) but thanks to a meandering jet stream parts of the vortex can slosh down into North America, helping to funnel unspeakably cold air into the central and eastern U.S., like forecast next week. In metro Detroit, daytime highs for Wednesday will be in the lower 20s. Low temperatures have the potential to dip down to the lower teens or the upper single digits. Manion said on Thursday, highs are expected to be in the upper teens or low 20s, with lows in the lower teens. cold air will be sticking around until later in the Manion said.

Polar vortex-like cold coming after snow By Ann Zaniewski Detroit Free Press Detroit Police released several video clips Thursday of a new suspect wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of Wayne State University Police Sgt. Collin Rose last month. In the videos released by police, an unidentified man can be seen riding a bike that has a small front wheel down astreet, just prior to the shooting. Two additional videos also show the man running down the street after the killing. According to anews release from the department, investigators say they think the suspect was riding a bike at the time of the shooting.

No further details were released about the potential suspect. The new footage comes just a day after criminal charges were dropped Wednesday against DeAngelo L. Davis, a Detroit man who was accused of shooting Rose in the head Nov. 22 in Detroit just west of Wayne State's Midtown campus. The 29-year-old officer died aday later.

Rose was a canine officer who was hired by the Wayne State police department in March 2011. Rose was one credit short of completing his master's degree in police administra- tion at Wayne State when he was killed. Wayne State will posthumously award that degree to Rose during the 10 a.m. Saturday commencement ceremonies. His family is expected to attend, school officials said.

reward for information is being offered. Call 888-ATF-TIPS, 888-2838477 or 800-SPEAK-UP. Contact Katrease Stafford: or 313-223-4759. Staff writers Jim Schaefer and Gina Damron contributed to this report. DETROIT POLICE Astill image from a video clip of a new suspect wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of Wayne State University Police Sgt.

Collin Rose in November. An unidentified man can be seen riding a bike, which has a small front wheel, down a street just before the shooting. New suspect in WSU cop death seen on police video By Katrease Stafford Detroit Free Press SEE THE POLICE VIDEO Collin Rose It seemed like a simple item University of Michigan Regent Kathy White suggested at board meeting the university should renovate the Inglis House in honor of outgoing Regent Laurence Deitch. Instead, it turned into a conversation about how the university spends money on items not targeted at students. Inglis House, near the Arb in Ann Arbor, has been university property since 1951, when it was given to U-M as a possible house for the university president.

However, presidents have lived in a Central Campus residence, and the house has been used for university events and to house dignitaries. But it is in need of repair. Administrators have said it would take at least $4.6 million to renovate and $500,000 a year in ongoing maintenance. White proposed that because Deitch had served 24 years and was known for reminding other board members of the history, approving the renovation would be a fitting tribute. proposal would have made the first floor more accessible for people with physical disabilities, improved the kitchen and restored the landscape.

when the discussion began. Board chair Mark Bern- steinsuggested the money would be better spent on lowering student costs. Regent Mike Brehm agreed. be used on a daily he said. the initial cost of $187 per student and another $20 per student for oper- ation, I think better money spent on keeping costs down for Board members asked the administration to weigh in.

President Mark Schlissel, in a mild rebuke to board members, said the administration prepared to because no one said in advance it would be brought up. The board then deadlocked on the project, with Bernstein and Behm being joined by Regents Andrew Richner and Andrea Fischer Newman in voting no. That killed it. The half hour conversation was a rare debate in public among board members. It came about six months after the board approved a 3.9% increasein tuition.

Regents Newman, Richner and Denise Ilitch were the only ones to vote against that hike. Later in the meeting, the board approved $192 million in other construction projects, including $150 million for renovation of the Alexander G. Ruthven Museums, $10 million for a new William Monroe Trotter Multicultural Center and $6.2 million of improvements to the Law Quad. No one voted against those moves. During the discussion on Inglis House, Ilitch said she wished those who were concerned with the cost of this project would do the same with other projects.

a clear difference between Inglis House and the other projects, Bernstein told the Free Press after the meeting. are all central to the academic mission of the he said. Inglis House is a beautiful historic house, but I view it as central to our academic U-M dilemma: Must all projects directly benefit students? By David Jesse Detroit Free Press.