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(CBS DETROIT) - Al Allen, a Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame honoree who worked in broadcast news in Detroit for over 50 years, died Tuesday. He was 79. He was born in Little Rock, Arkansas ...

Allen spent more than five decades covering Detroit in various roles. The Arkansas native started covering news for WJLB radio in the 1970s, according to the Michigan Journalism Hall of Fame.