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The Republican candidates say more must be done to combat illegal immigration.get more >>

All of the GOP presidential candidates say they oppose President Barack Obama's decision to bail out failing automakers.get more >>

The Council on American-Islamic Relations and officials of the Michigan Islamic Academy have filed a federal lawsuit against an Ann Arbor-area community for denying a zoning change that would allow construction of a...get more >>

Two polls released six days ahead of Michigan's Republican presidential primary show a close race between state native Mitt Romney and ex-Pennsylvania U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum.get more >>

A state-appointed review team has determined for the second time that a financial emergency exists in Highland Park Schools. The unanimous 9-0 decision today came following an open meeting and will be forwarded to Governor...get more >>

Former presidential candidate Herman Cain is joining Republican U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra during stops in Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Ypsilanti and Troy.get more >>

Ford Motor Co. says it will pump $3.8 billion into its global pension plans this year as it tries to get them closer to fully funding their obligations.get more >>

An Associated Press survey of the nation's top methamphetamine-producing states shows national lab seizures rose again last year.get more >>

The Republican-led Michigan Senate has approved a bill that would block unionization efforts by graduate student research assistants at public universities.get more >>

A man from Michigan's Upper Peninsula accused of buying and hiding more than 4,000 pounds of explosives has reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors.get more >>

Authorities say a barn fire in southern Michigan has killed 38 horses and sent a farm worker to a hospital with burns.get more >>

The U.S. Navy says a sailor from Michigan who was serving in Japan has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for killing his infant daughter by hitting her chest.get more >>

A former Jackson Community College student who received an involuntary mental assessment is expected to get a $40,000 settlement from Jackson County in the case.get more >>

Authorities say a 51-year-old man was bludgeoned to death by another man at a home in southern Michigan's Calhoun County.get more >>

Habitat for Humanity Detroit is launching a 3-year, multi-million dollar initiative to engage Detroit's corporate leaders in revitalizing the city.get more >>

A Civil War veteran buried in an unmarked Colorado grave is finally getting a headstone.get more >>

The executive director of the 43,500-member Adventure Cycling Association will be in the Detroit area promoting the organization's Underground Railroad Detroit Alternate route.get more >>

Mitt Romney's campaign says the Republican presidential candidate is attending a tea party event in southeastern Michigan on Thursday, five days ahead of the state's primary election.get more >>

A bill approved by the Michigan House would trim the number of judges on the state's Court of Appeals.get more >>

An attorney for state Rep. Bob Genetski has waived the lawmaker's arraignment on a drunken driving charge.get more >>

A state-appointed emergency manager for the Highland Park school district will be temporarily sidelined from his job while the state reacts to a court order saying that state review teams analyzing city and school finances...get more >>

Gov. Rick Snyder has signed legislation that will allow county boards of commissioners to dissolve and take over duties of county road commissions in Michigan.get more >>

A Boston University hockey player has pleaded not guilty to raping a female student and has been ordered to have no contact with the woman.get more >>

Environmental groups say they may renew a legal battle if the federal government doesn't toughen proposed regulations of ship ballast water that has brought invasive species such as zebra mussels to the Great Lakes.get more >>

The Supreme Court says the police don't have to read Miranda rights to prison inmates every time they interrogate them about crimes unrelated to their current incarceration.get more >>

Detroit police are stepping up patrols on the city's west side as they try to find who fatally shot a 9-month-old boy.get more >>

A former Michigan pastor has been arraigned in Wisconsin on child sexual assault charges.get more >>

Police say an unloaded gun recently turned up inside a piano that was donated years ago to an Ann Arbor-area nursing home.get more >>

Authorities say the body of an 86-year-old Flint man has been found in his truck three days after a utility turned off electrical service to his home.get more >>

Eastern Michigan University says U.S. Sen. Carl Levin will speak on campus Thursday to help the Ypsilanti school inaugurate a new undergraduate degree program in Jewish studies.get more >>

Mitt Romney's campaign says the ex-Massachusetts governor is holding a town hall meeting in Detroit's northern suburbs as he seeks votes in Michigan's Republican presidential primary one week from now.get more >>

Mitt Romney raised $6.5 million last month for his presidential bid.get more >>

A Ray, Minn., musher has won his third consecutive U.P. 200 sled dog race on a route changed this year due to lack of snow in parts of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.get more >>

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is dangling the prospect of gas as low as $2 a gallon if he's elected.get more >>

The first Infiniti JX produced in Tennessee has rolled off the assembly line.get more >>

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested as the second suspect in the shooting deaths of two Detroit area women in their home.get more >>

A "super" political action committee backing Mitt Romney's White House run raised more than $6 million last month.get more >>

A Michigan man says he has burned a New Jersey flag to protest Gov. Chris Christie's decision to lower flags to honor late singing star Whitney Houston.get more >>

AAA Michigan says gasoline prices are up more than 2 cents per gallon during the past week to a statewide average of $3.45.get more >>

Ron Paul may not win the Republican nomination for president - he has yet to win a single state - but his strategy of trying to amass delegates in caucus states could land him a prominent role at the party's national...get more >>

The director of the Michigan State Police says veterans returning from duty in Iraq and Afghanistan would be good candidates to serve and protect the state.get more >>

Authorities say a 9-month-old child was killed when shots were fired into a Detroit home early Monday.get more >>

The leader of 1.3 million Roman Catholics in southeastern Michigan says he's releasing the results of a review of a proposal to merge or close dozens of parishes in the face of population shifts within the Archdiocese of...get more >>

Students are taking aim at an archery program each week at Saugatuck High School.get more >>

Rick Santorum is scheduled to bring his presidential campaign to West Michigan on Monday with a speech to Kent County Republicans.get more >>

State police say troopers arrested two armed American soldiers walking through an Upper Peninsula city who were bent on going AWOL.get more >>

The Michigan Court of Appeals has told a couple they have to tear down all or part of their $1.1 million mansion because they built it too close to their property lines.get more >>

If Mitt Romney wins the Republican nomination for president, he'll face the urgent task of inspiring the party's conservative core and rallying them to beat President Barack Obama.get more >>

Two Benton Harbor commissioners are hoping a ruling that a review team looking over the finances of a troubled school district in the Detroit area violated the state's Open Meetings Act and eventually will lead to the...get more >>

Think you have what it takes to be a Tiger?get more >>

A Michigan man who hid needles in meat that was eaten by a neighbor's dog faces sentencing after pleading no contest to attempted animal killing or torture.get more >>

The mayor's office and firefighters' union have agreed to a tentative deal on concessions aimed at cutting the city's budget deficit and keeping Detroit's finances out of the hands of a state-appointed...get more >>

The director of the Michigan National Guard believes the Pentagon's plan to eliminate fighter jets at a Detroit area base makes no economic sense and would cost more than 550 jobs.get more >>

Students from Cody, Denby and Osborn high schools in Detroit will play a group of city police officers in basketball as part of a youth violence prevention rally.get more >>

Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty will speak to a group of northern Michigan Republican activists near Traverse City.get more >>

Authorities say a 22-year-old Tuscola County man was found dead in an upside-down sport-utility vehicle submerged in a ditch.get more >>

A former Wayne State University police officer has been found guilty of coercing a woman to perform a sex act after he stopped her car near the school's campus in Detroit.get more >>

A state hearing officer has ruled that Michigan law allowed ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to use campaign funds to fight an obstruction of justice charge in 2008.get more >>

The Ingham County medical examiner says a 19-year-old Michigan State University student from western Michigan died late last week from meningococcal disease.get more >>

A former Eaton County sheriff's deputy has been sentenced to jail time and probation for keeping money paid by out-of-state drivers who were stopped for violations.get more >>

A Nigerian man given a mandatory life sentence for trying to blow up a packed jetliner with a bomb sewn into his underwear on Christmas Day 2009 has appealed the punishment.get more >>

The anti-abortion Susan B. Anthony List plans to endorse Rick Santorum for president.get more >>

The Detroit Historical Society says a large clock that once was displayed at the Chicago World's Fair in 1934 has been damaged by vandal.get more >>

The University of Michigan has abolished a rule requiring its president and executive officers to retire by age 70.get more >>

The Wayne County sheriff's department says an inmate escaped from a transport van in Detroit and was on the loose.get more >>

Authorities say the driver of a car near Lansing has died after the vehicle was hit by an Amtrak train heading from Chicago to Port Huron.get more >>

A program on Michigan's history from the American Revolution to statehood opens Feb. 25 on the Center Campus of Macomb Community College.get more >>

The Air Zoo in Portage plans a special presentation Sunday about the Tuskegee Airmen in recognition of Black History Month.get more >>

In Mitt Romney's world, Europeans are socialists, the Chinese are currency manipulators, Russia can't be trusted to abide by nuclear agreements, and the U.S. is too generous with humanitarian aid.get more >>

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is decrying the "war on drugs" in a speech to supporters in Washington state.get more >>

A 41-year-old Detroit man has received a three-month sentence after pleading guilty to accusations of mailing a noose and photos of lynchings to a black man and his white wife.get more >>

A former high-ranking Detroit homicide detective faces charges that include conducting a criminal enterprise.get more >>

The leader of 1.3 million Roman Catholics in southeastern Michigan says he'll announce Monday the results of a review of a proposal to merge or close dozens of parishes in the face of population shifts within the...get more >>

The family of a Nigerian man sentenced to life in prison for trying to destroy an international jetliner says the case brought them "tremendous shock."get more >>

CNN has called off a GOP presidential debate scheduled for March 1 in Georgia after Mitt Romney and Ron Paul said they would not attend.get more >>

Central Michigan University's sports teams should be getting bigger exposure in the coming years.get more >>

Safety regulators are urging carmakers to design dashboard technology like text-messaging and Internet browsing so that it will be automatically disabled when a vehicle is in motion.get more >>

A physician assistant from Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula who authorities say hypnotized and sexually assaulted two women has been convicted of second-degree criminal sexual conduct.get more >>

Officials in Monroe County are pursuing the creation of a national Gen. George Armstrong Custer museum and monument.get more >>

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is backing Mitt Romney's presidential bid, calling the former Massachusetts governor "the man for the job."get more >>

Legislation intended to clarify Michigan's law banning protests at funerals has been approved by Gov. Rick Snyder.get more >>

The Muskegon Museum of Art is hosting a nationally touring exhibition from the Smithsonian American Art Museum that celebrates the 75th anniversary of the first New Deal arts program, the Public Works of Art Project.get more >>

Republican Mitt Romney is faltering with white working-class voters crucial to his party's drive to capture the White House, even as he tries to fend off a rising GOP challenger, Rick Santorum, who wields strong...get more >>

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is releasing four years' worth of federal income tax returns showing a steady rise in his personal wealth before earnings slipped in 2010.get more >>

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder plans to endorse Mitt Romney's presidential bid.get more >>

Federal prosecutors have added a charge to the corruption case against former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.get more >>

Two officials have been charged in a federal investigation into Wayne County government.get more >>