Posted: 4:31 AM A funeral is scheduled Thursday in suburban Grand Rapids for a 27-year-old U.S. Navy Seal who was among 11 people killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.

Posted: 4:30 AM The dangers of soot air pollution will be discussed during a Detroit community meeting.

Posted: 10:26 PM The Eaton County sheriff's department has released the name a man who was lying on railroad tracks when a train struck and killed him.

Posted: 10:24 PM Michigan authorities say police officers checking on the welfare of a person who failed to show up for work found a woman who'd been shot to death and a man who'd been seriously wounded.

Posted: 4:10 PM The Motown story is coming to Broadway next spring, with Brandon Victor Dixon playing the role of the trailblazing Detroit record label's founder Berry Gordy.

Posted: 4:09 PM A federal judge in Grand Rapids sways a Michigan law banning panhandling in public places "on its face" violates the First Amendment and the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause.

Posted: 4:08 PM Students at Ypsilanti Public Schools will start class anywhere from 10 to 40 minutes later than last year as part of a cost-cutting effort by the district.

Posted: 3:39 PM Michigan Lottery officials plan to introduce the winner of this month's $337 million Powerball jackpot during a news conference scheduled for Friday.

Posted: 6:47 AM Members of a Flint-area church are attending services in a parking lot after their place of worship was closed by a fire marshal for failing a building inspection.

Posted: 6:46 AM Dozens of Michigan hospitals are expected to pay federal penalties because too many heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia patients needed to be readmitted within 30 days.

Posted: 10:40 PM A former Lansing pediatric dentist has been found guilty of sexually assaulting a child patient more than a decade ago.

Posted: 10:29 PM Detroit police officers have sustained a 10 percent cut despite a judge's order to block the move.

Posted: 10:27 PM neral Motors Co. says it's trying to stay out of the political limelight by banning President Barack Obama, Republican challenger Mitt Romney and other candidates from its plants through the November election.

Posted: 10:13 PM Authorities say a 72-year-old woman whose body was found in her burned farmhouse house near Holly in northwestern Oakland Country may have died before the blaze started.

Posted: 5:48 PM The U.S. Coast Guard says a cruise ship carrying 120 people has been freed after running aground and becoming stranded in the Detroit River.

Posted: 5:47 PM The Eaton County sheriff's department says a train struck and killed a man who was lying on the tracks.

Posted: 5:45 PM The Oakland County sheriff's department says deputies arrested a 17-year-old boy in a vehicle speeding away from the scene of a fatal shooting with his 16-year-old girlfriend.

Posted: 10:09 AM The U.S. Coast Guard says a cruise ship carrying 120 people has run aground and is stranded in the Detroit River.

Updated: 10:14 AM The University of Michigan Alumni Association is asking all alumni to sing the school's famous fight song and send video.

Posted: 4:03 PM Police in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale say one of their officers was struck by a woman driving drunk in a sport utility vehicle.

Posted: 3:58 PM Many Michigan delegates don't know if they'll be permitted to cast a vote for presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney at the upcoming Republican National Convention.

Posted: 3:56 PM A Grand Traverse County jail inmate posed as someone else and walked out the door untouched.

Posted: 12:46 PM Kenyan runner Julius Kogo has won the Crim 10-mile race in Flint for the third straight year.

Posted: 12:43 PM Detroit Mayor Dave Bing is among hundreds of volunteers who came out to board up homes and clean up an east-side neighborhood as part of a grassroots initiative organized by journalist, author and philanthropist Mitch Albom.

Updated: 12:31 PM A Grand Traverse County jail inmate posed as someone else and walked out the door untouched.