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Your stories for October 10, 2018: Federal law enforcement officials rounded up more than 120 missing children in Michigan as part of a giant sweep for sex trafficking victims. - The Detroit Tigers will have a new team calling games from the broadcast booth next season. Unsurprisingly, Fox Sports Detroit opted not to renew the contracts of Mario Impemba and Rod Allen after long-simmering tensions between the longtime broadcasters simmered over last month in Chicago. Here’s a link to Lynn Henning’s Detroit News story about what is believed to have happened. - The historic Belle Isle Aquarium gets a $1.7 million grant, adding to a string of recent good news for the island park. - Ferndale gets a solar-powered, modern bus stop for the SMART FAST bus on Woodward near Nine Mile Road. - There are two new events coming to the Detroit Free Press/Chemical Bank Marathon race weekend, which runs Oct. 19-21. More information and registration is here. Online registration runs through Oct. 15. - Jer delivers an impassioned public service announcement about political ads on TV. Here’s where to find a sample ballot from your neck of the woods to review your choices ahead of the Nov. 6 election. - Jack White sang the Polish version of “Happy Birthday” to his 88-year-old mom at a gig in Warsaw. - We talk about some changes Berkley, Oak Park and Huntington Woods are working on to liven up a moribund industrial strip of 11 Mile Road. - And remember that luxury development along the riverfront we told you about yesterday? Well here are some of the early conceptual renderings for it. It doesn’t look like Q-Bert at all, as it turns out.