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r-1 ARC II HAD II ODE GUIS FIRST ROUND MICHIGAN STATE vs. Temple 12:30 p.m. Thursday in Denver JUJV. ROAD TO DETROIT Midwest regional lii '(Spina Ready to photo COpy! PAGE 12B mm Kansas is noriDAY ZiUAKE-UP Or download them no. i seed atfreep.com.

sports, ib I yzz ON GUARD FOR 176 YEARS tff It's open andnctv New businesses share the experience in a new Free Press feature. BUSINESS, 7A V.Vre guessing Jftee 3um UWM thsy small great 50 CENTS WWW.FREEP.COM JjiljflUlY MARCH 17, 2008 METRO FINAL You can smell the corned beef and cabbage. It's St. Patrick Day, 1 after all. But A TOUCH OF THE IRISH IvA your brownies? A little Irish-style beer, POT chocolate and cream cheese, and you've got a St.

Paddy's Day treat. LIFE, 1C work 1-75 was pst tie mm AMY LEANGDetroit Free Press Tina Riedel of Detroit receives a mattress for her apartment. It all hslps a hems It's called Make a House a Massive road projects to test drivers all over Get ready for another orange barrel barrage this week as the Michigan Department of Transportation Home. A nonprofit provides II .1 li '-VV furniture and household items to people who were previously homeless but have been moved to their own house or apartment. LOCAL NEWS, 3A THE BREAK ROOM Yes, pubsrty Is a puzzler Join Jeff Seidel as he tries rolls out its $1-billion statewide road and bridge construction program for 2008 about $308 million worth of that in met 4 MATT HELMS if to make hide and hair out of ro Detroit.

The 2008 construction juggernaut stampedes onto 1-75 and 1-96 beginning Tuesday with lane and ramp closures, an undeniable warning of major work looming on 1-75 from Downriver to Oakland County, the 1-696 overpass above 1-75, a major 1-96 interchange in Wixom and sections of 1-94 in Macomb and St Clair counties. The impact of the roadwork will be much clearer after Tuesday's morning rush hour, when crews close ramps from westbound 1-696 to southbound 1-75 and from northbound 1-75 to Photos by SUSAN TUSAOetroit Free Press Celebrating in Deeoat See HELMS, 2A An Irish proverb says your feet will lead you to where your heart is. And Sunday, hundreds found their hearts at the St. Patrick's Day parade in Detroit. Many even dressed jip for the occasion.

ABOVE: Grant Burgard, 4, wears green all over; his sister Sarah, 2, trails behind. They came from Oxford for the festivities. LEFT: Emily Cassleman of Royal Oak takes merrymaking to new lengths with these flashy lashes, more on the parade, page 3A puberty. Not his. JUMP START, 2A TO-DO LIST Break out ths kelly green This Monday's Wake-up is green for a reason.

So make sure you've got a piece o' green to be wearin' and celebrate St. Patrick's Day. Check freep.com for St. Patrick's Day events. V.Vve almost mads it through the winter! Spring arrives Thursday at 1:48 a.m.

Almost instantly, flowers will sprout and temperatures will kiss 70. OK, maybe not. It's an early Holy Week for Christians This Friday is Good Friday followed by Easter Sunday. The next time Holy Week will be this early will be 2228 THE LAST WORD It's a week that starts with a pot of gold and the luck of tha Irish Rn PATRICIA BECKDetroit Free Press Besides the Ambassador Bridge project, crews do work Friday on the interchange of 1-75 and 1-696. Automaker Tata's presence already felt in Detroit area A legal horror show tears Oakland Co.

family apart ByMARKPHELAN free press auto critic BRIAN DICKERSON 7T how about some luck for I the Spartans (think green) I A look at what other companies Tata Group owns and meet the man behind the conglomerate. 12A nies pay low wages and pilfer good-paying jobs from the United States, Incat just won a contract for its employees in Oakland County to develop a vehicle platform from the ground up for a Chinese automaker. Incat's local engineers work with about 350 customers, including Chrysler, Ford and Nissan, suppliers and nonautomo-tive companies, including Boeing, Bose and Gulfstream, said Kevin Fisher, vice president for engineering and design. See TATA, 12A Sunday's story A West Bloom-field detective's methods of interrogating a 13-year-old boy during a sexual abuse case were questionable. Only at freep.tvm See the police video of the interrogation of the boy.

Second of two parts Last Jan. 29, with her sexual abuse case against a West Bloomfield couple on the verge of collapse, Assistant Oakland County Prosecutor Andrea Dean called a psychologist named Sandra McClennen to the witness stand. Dean was trying to persuade a judge to allow statements in which the couple's autistic 14-year-old daughter, who communicated by typing on a keyboard with the assistance of a teacher's aide, had seemingly leveled horrifying allegations against her parents. Dean hoped McClennen, who had treated the girl for five years, could convince the court the typed statements represented her ex- Tata Motors, the Indian automaker that's about to burst on the global scene as the new owner of Jaguar and Land Rover and a long-term partner for Ford Motor is the other face of globalization. It is a foreign company that employs hundreds of people in metro Detroit and plans to boost its workforce substantially in the region over the next three years.

"We are adding people in Detroit," said Warren Harris, chief executive officer of Tata's locally based Incat engineering group. At a time when the common perception is that Indian compa- patient's words. But on the witness stand, the prosecution's star witness voiced grave doubts the girl had authored the allegations herself. "She has never been very good at accurately conveying information about past events," the Plymouth psychologist testified. on uiursuay against Temple in the NCAA tourney? See DICKERSON, 11A INDEX Vol.

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