Posted: 5:44 PM The Michigan secretary of state's office is announcing that a campaign finance application is now available on the Android smartphone platform.

Posted: 4:40 PM A picture of the St. Joseph North Pier Lighthouse will be featured in the 2013 Pure Michigan Travel Guide after winning the Pure Michigan Moments Photo Contest.

Posted: 4:38 PM A proposal that Gov. Rick Snyder commissioned to overhaul Michigan's education system would let students take their public funding to any district that will accept them, enroll in state-funded online learning courses and get $2,500 in scholarship money for each semester they graduate early from high school.

Posted: 11:31 AM A proposal that would end Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan's tax-exempt status and transform the organization from a charitable trust to a customer-owned nonprofit is making headway in Lansing.

Posted: 11:23 AM State regulators have cut through red tape to allow an Ann Arbor hospital to treat more people affected by a national meningitis outbreak.

Posted: 3:54 PM Authorities are investigating what appears to be a couple's double murder inside their West Michigan home.

Posted: 3:52 PM Gov. Rick Snyder is moving toward establishing a partnership between Michigan and the federal government to provide an online market where people without health insurance can shop for private coverage.

Posted: 6:53 AM Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette is taking Michigan's Civil Rights Initiative to the Supreme Court.

Posted: 11:36 PM Detroit officials have to approve a contract to evaluate pension and health care cost reductions and other deals to improve operations are needed before the state will release $10 million to the cash-strapped city.

Posted: 10:56 PM Investigators with the Michigan Humane Society and Detroit Animal Control officers have seized 10 horses from a warehouse on the city's west side.

Posted: 10:49 PM Authorities have identified a person whose body was found after a fire in a barn owned by the parents of a state legislator as that of a 30-year-old homeless man.

Posted: 10:48 PM A federal jury has found a former River Rouge school official guilty of a bribery and mail fraud scheme that cost her suburban Detroit district $160,000.

Posted: 8:22 AM The Ford Motor Company Fund is pledging $1 million to the American Red Cross for efforts including workplace development training for veterans, military members and their families.

Posted: 8:20 AM Southwest Michigan investigators are seeking charges against an Alabama man after the pickup truck he was driving collided head-on with car, killing a woman and two young children in the car.

Posted: 8:18 AM The price of the Recreation Passport needed to enter Michigan's state parks, recreation areas and forest campgrounds is going up $1 effective next year.

Posted: 8:13 AM Michigan's enforcement of a five-year limit on welfare benefits is on the docket at the Michigan Supreme Court.

Posted: 7:35 AM Michigan hunters load up their rifles Thursday morning as firearm deer hunting season opens in the Wolverine State.

Posted: 4:36 PM The country's top medical regulator is preparing to tell Congress that new laws are needed to police large specialty pharmacies like the one at the center of a deadly meningitis outbreak.

Updated: 7:08 PM Fourth grade students in Michigan can head down the slopes for free this ski season.

Posted: 4:10 PM Authorities say Michigan's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell 0.2 percentage points in the latest month to 9.1 percent.

Updated: 7:07 PM Benton Harbor’s emergency financial manager will discuss the city’s financial crisis at a meeting next week.

Updated: 6:50 PM A judge has ordered a man charged in a shooting spree that targeted motorists in southeastern Michigan to undergo forensic competency and criminal responsibility examinations.

Updated: 8:11 AM Gov. Rick Snyder has announced two appointments to the Eastern Michigan University Board of Regents.

Updated: 8:39 AM Authorities say a pickup truck hit two women who were standing in a southeast Michigan roadway, killing one of the pedestrians and critically injuring the other.

Updated: 3:35 PM Southwestern Michigan authorities say a woman and two young children are dead after the car in which they were riding collided head-on with a pickup truck driven by an Alabama man who told investigators he had been drinking alcohol.