Authorities in southwestern Michigan say they have arrested two people in connection with the slaying of a 74-year-old Kalamazoo antiques dealer.

Hundreds packed a West Michigan ballroom to remember a missing 19-year-old hiker who never returned from a day hike in Glacier National Park.

A second man has been charged in the weekend break-in of an Oceana County barn and theft and slayings of pigs.

The bodies of a West Michigan man and the owner of the boat he was fishing aboard have been recovered in Lake Michigan.

The Michigan Court of Appeals will hear from backers and opponents of a plan to write collective bargaining rights for workers into the Michigan Constitution by placing the issue before voters in the November general election.

State police say a 62-year-old man who disappeared while training his dogs in Jackson County apparently died from a medical condition and not from foul play.

Michigan officials say the state has had its first death from the West Nile virus, an elderly woman in Washtenaw County.

The U.S. Coast Guard is working to clear the outbound shipping lane in the St. Marys River after efforts to refloat a grounded 1,000-foot coal freighter created blockage.

A jury has found in favor of a gay University of Michigan student body president in his lawsuit against a former Michigan assistant attorney general.

The mother and wife of 25-year-old Army National Guard Sgt. Kyle McClain say the soldier killed in Afghanistan was a dedicated family man and friend, as well as a committed soldier.

The Michigan Court of Appeals has sided with House Republicans in a procedural dispute with minority Democrats over when two pieces of labor legislation take effect.

The order honoring Spc. Kyle McClain of Macomb County's Shelby Township is for Thursday.

Family members of those who died in a plane crash near Detroit Metropolitan Airport 25 years ago are being invited to attend a memorial event at the crash site.

A former staffer of then-U.S. Rep. Thaddeus McCotter has been arraigned on charges she participated in a scheme to submit false signatures on the lawmaker's nominating petitions.

e Michigan Senate has adopted a resolution designating Sept. 11-17 Michigan Patriot Week.

West Michigan girl whose face was mauled by a pet raccoon a decade ago is recovering at a Detroit-area hospital after starting a series of reconstructive surgeries.

Michigan's unemployment rate is on the rise, jumping 0.4 percentage points to 9 percent in the latest figures from the state.

A former Michigan assistant attorney general has told a federal court jury that a gay University of Michigan student body president he was accused of stalking and defaming had been trying to push a "radical homosexual agenda."

The U.S. Coast Guard says crews are working to free a 1,000-foot coal freighter grounded in the outbound channel of the St. Marys River that links lakes Superior and Huron.

The Board of State Canvassers has approved two ballot proposals for Michigan's Nov. 6 ballot.

The director of Michigan's Department of Community Health has stepped down.

The End of Ferry Services in Harsens Island is causing concern among residents who rely on it for year-round travel.

A 59-year-old former Michigan teacher who authorities say had a sexual relationship with student is expected to keep getting his pension.

Gov. Rick Snyder has ordered U.S. flags lowered to half-staff for a suburban Detroit soldier killed in an explosion in Afghanistan.

Initiatives by U.S. Health and Human Services to reduce health disparities under the Affordable Care Act will be detailed in a keynote speech during the Blacks in Government national training conference in Detroit.