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Delta seeks students to swim with dolphins

Jan 9, 2009 6:27 pm

FRANKENLUST TOWNSHIP -- A dozen Delta College students will go swimming with the dolphins this spring. The community college is offering a course that will take 12 students to the Florida Keys to lear...

Obama seeks delay in digital TV switch

Jan 9, 2009 2:04 pm

WASHINGTON -- A digital do-over may happen as President-elect Barack Obama wants Congress to delay the much ballyhooed TV broadcast transition that promises to bring consumers sharper pictures and mor...

Lines grow at Saginaw's Problem Resolution Office in backlog of jobless

Jan 9, 2009 1:12 pm

People don't need to describe Michigan's job crisis for Robert D. Pildner Sr. He can see it in the 50-plus faces staring at him each morning through the glass door at the Unemployment Insurance Agency...

New lawman at Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge

Jan 9, 2009 12:28 pm

The Shiawassee National Wildlife Refuge has a new lawman patrolling its woods and waters. Joseph Hughes, who came on duty Dec. 15, 2008, replaces Jonathan Priday, who left in January 2007, to take a s...

Steps taken to cut pensions for Chesaning Township officials and two employees

Jan 9, 2009 12:04 pm

After 39 years, pensions for Chesaning Township's elected officials and two employees are on their way out. Board members unanimously took action Thursday directing attorney Otto Brandt to prepare a m...

TRAFFIC UPDATE: Several crashes dot icy US-10

Jan 9, 2009 11:57 am

Emergency personnel are responding to several crashes on US-10 near Mackinaw Road. They are advising that the roadway is extremely icy. Bay County central dispatch continues to report crashes west on ...

Kroger donates $25,000 to mid-Michigan food bank

Jan 9, 2009 11:27 am

Kroger Co. has donated $25,000 in food and cash to the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan to help launch the grocery chain's new Price Blasters program. The mid-Michigan effort is part of a $150,000 contri...

Crews to close I-75 in Saginaw County for brief periods

Jan 8, 2009 11:42 pm

The state Department of Transportation will enforce intermittent road closures Friday on Interstate 75 in Saginaw County. Northbound and southbound lanes will close fro 15-minute intervals between 12:...

Susan LeFevre makes her case for freedom

Jan 8, 2009 11:12 pm

YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) -- A California woman back in a Michigan prison after escaping in 1976 was interviewed Thursday by a former sheriff who sits on the state parole board and will vote on whether to...

Police have description of home break-in suspect in Gratiot and Isabella counties

Jan 8, 2009 10:57 pm

State police have released an artist's rendering of a man involved in a series of daytime burglaries. He is one of three men who have made the rounds in Gratiot and Isabella counties, knocking on door...

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Snow storm to dump 9 inches of snow on Metro Detroit

Jan 9, 2009 7:22 pm

With heavy snow in the forecast today in southeast Michigan, folks are already buying salt from Mondry True Value Hardware in southwest Detroit.

Detroit warns largest union to expect two waves of layoffs

Jan 9, 2009 7:22 pm

DETROIT -- The city on Thursday warned its largest union to expect two waves of layoffs this year, with one at the end of February or early March and another in July.

Judge tosses challenge to Cockrel candidacy

Jan 9, 2009 7:12 pm

DETROIT -- Mayor Kenneth Cockrel Jr. survived another challenge to keep his spot on the Feb. 24 ballot today, in part because there's so little time before the primary.

Canton judge speaks out on dangers of frozen retention ponds

Jan 9, 2009 6:32 pm

CANTON TOWNSHIP -- One day after his 11-year-old son plunged through a weak patch of ice and into a frigid retention pond 35th District Court Judge Michael J. Gerou is speaking out, urging residents t...

Celebrating 50 years of Motown

Jan 9, 2009 6:32 pm

On Monday, Gordy and Universal Motown Records will launch the 50th anniversary of the iconic Detroit label, which includes an event Monday at the Motown Historical Museum featuring Duke Fakir of the F...

State budget shortfall hits $917 million

Jan 9, 2009 6:24 pm

LANSING -- Michigan's budget is out of whack by $917 million this year and the shortfall could mushroom to a whopping $1.6 billion next year, according to a tax revenue forecast adopted by state fisca...

Future of rec centers in doubt

Jan 9, 2009 6:02 pm

Hopes of reopening the 13 recreation centers shuttered by Detroit in 2005 could be fading fast after a recent report pegged the costs of doing so at nearly $30 million.

Livingston County deputy shoots man in stomach

Jan 9, 2009 5:57 pm

TYRONE TOWNSHIP -- Michigan State Police are investigating a shooting incident that involved a Livingston County sheriff's deputy.

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