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- Ferris State board approves tuition increase
The Ferris State University Board of Trustees has approved a 5.33 percent tuition increase for the 2009-10 academic year.
- Mich. man runs over family tent; boy badly injured
Police in western Michigan say a man fell asleep at the wheel of his parked vehicle and accidentally ran over a tent containing his wife and two young children.
- Mich. man told Granholm recall language invalid
Paul Piche has failed to get language approved for a petition recalling Gov. Jennifer Granholm. But he plans to try again.
- Mich. SOS: Ask ex-Detroit mayor to get IRS ruling
The Michigan Secretary of State's office says the Wayne County clerk should ask ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to provide a letter from the Internal Revenue Service to determine whether he properly used nearly $980,000 in campaign finance funds to pay his lawyers.
- Mich. court: Damages for caring for kids uncapped
A divided Michigan Supreme Court says a dead mother's family can sue a hospital and doctors for $1.4 million in damages for loss of household services like caring for her children.
- Obama to hold Mich. town hall meeting on July 14
The city of Warren, hard-hit by auto industry downsizing, will be the site of President Barack Obama's visit to Michigan next Tuesday.
- Poll: Mich. Legislature should face cuts first
A poll suggests Michigan residents would like the Legislature to slash its own expenses before cutting school and police funding.
- Obama names ex-UM geneticist to head health agency
President Barack Obama says he's nominating ex-University of Michigan genetics pioneer Francis S. Collins as director of the National Institutes of Health.
- Bay Port EMT enters Mich. GOP governor's race
A Huron County commissioner and emergency medical technician has entered the Republican race for governor.
- Muskegon Co. authorities look for life-ring thief
Police are trying to figure out who stole 10 life rings from Pere Marquette Park in Muskegon over the Independence Day weekend.
- Senate hearing focuses on threats to wildlife
From a mysterious fungus attacking bats in the Northeast to the emergence of Burmese pythons in Florida, native wildlife is facing new threats throughout the country.
- Police: Michigan man throws cat up to 20 times
Police have arrested a Muskegon Heights man after they say he threw the family cat up to 20 times, possibly breaking the animal's back and leg.
- Granholm orders flags lowered for Michigan soldier
Gov. Jennifer Granholm has ordered that U.S. flags in Michigan be flown at half-staff today to honor a soldier who died in Iraq last month.
- Judge denies motion to fast-track GM sale appeal
A bankruptcy judge has denied a motion by people hurt in vehicle accidents to send an appeal of General Motors' sale directly to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.
- Detroit messages celebrate Michael Jackson's life
Michael Jackson's fans in Detroit have written words of thanks and affection to the late pop star.
- Monica Conyers: I'm 'still the councilwoman'
She resigned from the Detroit City Council after pleading guilty to bribery, but Monica Conyers still bills her call-in television show "Ask the Councilwoman with Monica Conyers."
- Firefighter pleads no contest in embezzlement case
A Scio Township firefighter has entered into a plea deal with prosecutors on charges that he embezzled more than $150,000 from the Ann Arbor Moose Lodge.
- Man in spam scam pleads guilty in Detroit
A Virginia software developer has pleaded guilty in a Detroit federal courtroom in a scam involving bulk commercial e-mails called spam.
- Twelve Michigan women among $12.7M lottery winners
Twelve women from a small town in Michigan's upper peninsula have claimed a $12.7 million Classic Lotto 47 jackpot.
- Man, 36, dead after being struck by concrete slab
Authorities say a 36-year-old Detroit man who was struck by a slab of concrete and trapped in a hole for about two hours on the city's east side has died.
- New policy considered for bridge commuters
The Mackinac Bridge Authority is expected to decide on a pricing policy for commuters who regularly cross the span linking Michigan's two peninsulas.
- Judge dismisses parts of 'ghetto court' lawsuit
A federal judge has dismissed parts of a lawsuit brought by a top City of Detroit attorney who said she was illegally demoted for calling a downtown court a "ghetto court."
- Grand Rapids sports columnist returns to job
A Grand Rapids Press sports columnist has returned to his job after pleading guilty to growing marijuana.
- Grant man sentenced to life in quadruple killing
A man convicted in the deaths of four people whose bodies were found inside an Ottawa County home that burned down has been sentenced to life in prison.
- Wayne Co. Sheriff Evans named Detroit police chief
Mayor Dave Bing says he is bringing in one-time political opponent and Wayne County Sheriff Warren Evans as Detroit's third police chief in less than a year.
- UM forecasts 15.8 percent Michigan jobless rate in 2010
University of Michigan economists say the state's hard times will stick around for the rest of the year and into 2010.
- Search under way for Detroit-area man on Lake Erie
The Monroe County sheriff's department and the U.S. Coast Guard are searching for a suburban Detroit man missing on Lake Erie.
- Clinton County sheriff's deputy dies in crash
A motorcycle-riding Clinton County sheriff's deputy died in a traffic accident on his way to work.
- Man gets jail for placing cameras in rental home
A Grand Rapids man who installed cameras in a rental house inhabited by a couple and their two children has been sentenced to 60 days in jail and three years' probation.
- FAA: Regional jet makes emergency landing in Mich.
The Federal Aviation Administration says a regional jet has made a safe emergency landing at MBS International Airport.
- Michigan has state government furlough day Monday
Most state government offices are shut down Monday as Michigan has its second of six unpaid furlough days for most employees.
- Michigan Gov. Granholm heading to Germany, Belgium
Gov. Jennifer Granholm is heading out on a trade trip to Germany and Belgium.
- Sentencing for man in Michigan quadruple killing
A life sentence awaits a man convicted in the deaths of four people whose bodies were found inside an Ottawa County home that burned down.
- Woman drowns during Lake Huron swim with friends
Authorities say a 25-year-old St. Clair County woman drowned during a weekend swim in Lake Huron.
- Taking care of foreclosed homes can be a dirty job
The hundreds of foreclosed houses in the Lansing area are good for Matt Johnson's business, even if he acknowledges the work can be downright disgusting.
- Audit questions uses of Detroit's emergency cash
A city fund intended to cover emergencies was used for expenses that included a publicist hired by ex-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick during the text-message scandal that drove him from office last year.
- New law delays Mich. home foreclosures by 90 days
A new law gives Michigan homeowners facing foreclosure a 90-day window to stay in their house and potentially work out a resolution with their lender.
- It's 25th anniversary of Flint's Auto World fizzle
The city of Flint has long been a symbol of America's industrial decline. It also has never quite gotten over the self-inflicted black eye called AutoWorld.
- Hundreds of people rally at `tea party' in Lansing
Hundreds of people rallied at the state Capitol to protest government tax policies on Independence Day.
- New Mich. lottery game tied in with Dream Cruise
$2 ticket could win $30,000 car.
- Detroit police chief: No reason for firing given
James Barren had been chief less than a year.
- Another furlough day for Michigan employees Monday
Monday is the second of six furlough days state employees are taking this summer, as Michigan struggles to balance the budget.
- Battle Creek police find bodies of 2 men in river
Police in Battle Creek say they've found the bodies of two men in the Kalamazoo River.
- Michigan may cut subsidies that keep Amtrak running
Michigan may cut subsidies that keep Amtrak running along two of its three passenger rail lines in the state.
- Boy, 14, drowns while swimming at lake in SW Mich.
Authorities say a 14-year-old boy has drowned while swimming at a lake in southwestern Michigan.
- Detroit museum to show Jackson memorial broadcast
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit plans to open its doors Tuesday to show a broadcast of the public memorial for Michael Jackson in Los Angeles.
- Arson charge brought in Detroit firefighter death
A 40-year-old man has been charged in death of a Detroit firefighter who died after the roof of a charred vacant house collapsed on him last year.
- Saginaw Valley St. OKs 6.3 pct tuition increase
Saginaw Valley State University has approved a tuition increase for the 2009-10 academic year.
- 4 Mich. fishermen missing on Lake Erie
The men, who are between 52 and 76 years old, left Sterling Park in Monroe at 8 a.m. Thursday. A family member notified the Coast Guard around 10 p.m. when the men weren't home.
- Suspect in shootings of seven teens to be released
A prosecutor says there is not enough evidence to keep an 18-year-old Detroit man in custody in the shootings of seven teenagers at a bus stop after summer school classes.
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