Posted: 3:26 PM Majority Republicans in the Michigan Legislature agree the weight of a $45 billion pension liability for public school employees will crush the system if left untended, but they differ on how to fix it.

Posted: 3:24 PM Michigan authorities say three people have been sentenced for their role in a scheme that stole $160,000 by making fake unemployment claims for about 170 people, three of whom were serving life in prison.

Posted: 3:22 PM A Michigan couple is attempting to swim 50 miles across Lake Michigan to raise awareness about postpartum depression.

Posted: 7:15 AM Organizers of a revived state fair in Michigan say U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow is expected to serve as the event's grand marshal.

Posted: 10:24 PM Kettering University says it's getting $15.5 million form the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation for new lab space, a center for K-12 students, police headquarters and biology facility.

Posted: 10:23 PM A funeral is planned Thursday for a 25-year-old Army National Guard soldier from suburban Detroit who was killed in combat in Afghanistan.

Posted: 4:13 PM The Michigan Department of State says four proposed Michigan constitutional amendments have enough signatures to appear on the November ballot.

Posted: 4:11 PM A Detroit judged has set bond for two brothers granted new trials after 25 years in prison for murder.

Posted: 4:10 PM An autopsy has determined that a 55-year-old Troy father who authorities say was murdered by his son died from multiple blows to his head.

Posted: 9:31 PM Authorities in West Michigan believe the slaying of a 74-year-old man was "not a random act of violence."

Posted: 4:04 PM Police in Lapeer County are investigating the deaths of two adult brothers in an apparent murder-suicide.

Posted: 11:57 PM Police in western Michigan say they are investigating a homicide after the man's body was discovered at house in Kalamazoo.

Posted: 3:51 PM Muskegon Township police say a 13-year-old boy has been killed in a car-pedestrian accident in western Michigan.

Posted: 3:49 PM Hundreds of mourners have remembered a western Michigan Marine who was killed during combat in Afghanistan as a brave and devout Christian and family man.

Posted: 3:47 PM A county fair has ended early because of too much rain.

Updated: 7:10 PM The national Democratic Party's platform committee is meeting in Detroit to discuss party positions ahead of a convention next month in North Carolina.

Posted: 10:46 PM Oakland County's top elected official suffered several broken bones and a gash to his scalp when the car he was riding in collided with another vehicle in Auburn Hills, north of Detroit.

Posted: 10:44 PM Police, firefighters and emergency medical personnel took their displeasure with contracts imposed on them by Mayor Dave Bing to his doorstep.

Posted: 10:43 PM Police have found the body and bicycle of missing 55-year-old Troy father, whose son remains jailed on open murder charges.

Posted: 6:35 AM A group of lawmakers plans a review following a slew of complaints, safety concerns and confusion about a law that made powerful fireworks legal in Michigan.

Posted: 10:36 PM A 34-year-old man and 22-year-old woman have been sentenced to life in prison for murdering two men whose bodies were found in a burning car at a Michigan waterfowl preserve.

Posted: 10:34 PM A 19-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman have been killed during an apparent drive-by shooting on Detroit's west side.

Posted: 10:33 PM Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette says he's filed a legal request to remove seven of the 11 Detroit school board members from office and bar the entire board from acting as a government body.

Posted: 3:32 PM The son of a 62-year-old Vietnam veteran says his father was shot to death while pushing a granddaughter to safety as she took iPad photos of four men who had robbed the girl's west side Detroit home.

Posted: 3:27 PM A Detroit community-based violence prevention program has received a $1.5 million federal grant.