The co-founder of St. Joseph County’s Venetian Festival, Ralph Kitron, passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 5.

A Jewish civil rights group is denouncing placards posted at a deteriorating former Detroit car plant that spell out words that were part of a metal gate at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Indiana environmentalists are pressing their state's regulators to impose tough conditions on Enbridge Energy's plans to replace 50 miles of oil pipeline near Lake Michigan. It's part of an upgrade to a system that caused a major oil leak in Michigan.

The Michigan Farm Bureau says the state's vegetable crops suffered only minor damage from bad weather last year, unlike the heavy losses to fruit, corn and hay.

Perhaps here's a sign of better times: Michigan bankruptcy cases are down again.

Authorities say a small explosion at a suburban Detroit research laboratory has caused damage but no injuries.

Flint-area police say a 17-year-old boy was punching and shoving his mother and sister when his father fatally shot him.

AAA Michigan says gasoline prices have jumped 32 cents during the past week to a statewide average of about $3.70 per gallon.

The U.S. Postal Service has issued a special Rosa Parks stamp on what would have been the late civil rights icon's 100th birthday.

A Senate committee is expected to take up a bill this week that would expand DNA testing in Michigan.

Authorities say a southwestern Michigan couple have died in a pickup truck crash.

The U.S. Coast Guard has announced a $3,500 reward for help in catching a man who's made at least 20 fake "mayday" calls on a marine radio operating in the Monroe area.

The Detroit Institute of Arts will display a famous Vincent van Gogh work later this month.

Michigan health officials have reported two more infections in the past two weeks linked to contaminated steroids supplied by a Massachusetts pharmaceutical company.

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Federal authorities have charged a Wayne County jail inmate with assisting the escape of another inmate by switching identity wristbands.

Animal welfare activists and Indian tribes are gathering petition signatures seeking a statewide referendum on whether to allow wolf hunting in Michigan.

Authorities have released the name of a 7-year-old Canadian boy who died in a mile-long stretch of wrecks on Interstate 75 in Detroit.

Colin Quinn will be the opening night act at the Traverse City Winter Comedy Arts Festival this month.

Michigan's secretary of state is reversing course and says she will issue driver's licenses to young illegal immigrants allowed to stay in the country by a presidential order.

The Michigan Chamber of Commerce says it doesn't support a plan to turn solely to a ballot proposal to fix the state's billion-dollar road funding problem.

Michigan's secretary of state is reversing course and says she will issue driver's licenses to young illegal immigrants allowed to stay in the country by a presidential order.

Across Michiana, folks are seeing snow, but some areas are hit harder than others.

One of the tastiest fundraisers of the year is underway now that dishes have been unveiled and voting has begun for the “Greatest Chef in Michiana” competition.