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A Medicare fraud fugitive hotline wants leads on 170 people believed to have fled the country to avoid jail or prosecution. Ten of those fugitives are from Detroit and are accused of fraud in receiving more than $42 million. Some are believed to be living in Pakistan and India.
The administration of Gov. Rick Snyder is delaying the decision on whether to layoff state employees as part of a plan to balance the 2011-12 budget, in an attempt to convince state employee unions to reopen their contracts to provide concessions, Snyder spokeswoman Sara Wurfel said this afternoon.
Most of the members of the 127th Civil Engineering Squadron of the Michigan Air National Guard are expected to arrive this afternoon around 1:30 and more will come back next week.
The defendants charged in the schemes include three physicians, four clinic owners and managers, two clinic employees, one nurse and four physical therapists and physical therapy assistants.
A western Michigan man accomplished the feat last weekend when he ran a race in the Manistee National Forest. Brandon Mulnix of Lowell says he consumed only liquid nutrition while running for more than 12 hours.
A Michigan soldier who died in the Korean War is being buried six decades later at Arlington National Cemetery.
The two-day the 64th annual Pointe Mouillee Waterfowl Festival opens Sept. 10 and features tournaments featuring decoy carving, boat racing and goose calling.
MARSHALL— A public hearing has been set on Enbridge Inc.'s plan to replace more sections of a pipeline that leaked more than 800,000 gallons of oil in southern Michigan last summer.
MUSKEGON, Mich. — A western Michigan sheriff has changed a policy that forced jail inmates to use postcards if they wanted to write from behind bars.
Michigan State Police will be stepping up traffic enforcement during the Labor Day holiday weekend, starting 6 p.m. Friday.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is off to a Texas-size start in the Republican presidential sweepstakes in Michigan, blowing away the competition in a straw poll of several hundred party activists Tuesday in Macomb County.
Six attorneys general in the Great Lakes region called for a multi-state coalition Wednesday that would push the federal government to protect the lakes from invasive species such as Asian carp by cutting off their artificial link to the Mississippi River basin.
TRAVERSE CITY A man who crashed his van into a Social Security office in July after years of frustration over a disability claim has been approved for benefits, authorities said.
In a second major medical marijuana decision this month, the Michigan Court of Appeals said that users must have their state-issued identification cards before they can legally grow their own drugs.
Authorities say a teenager has undergone surgery for injuries sustained when she fell 70 feet or more from a cliff at a Lake Superior shoreline park in Michigan's Upper Peninsula.
The bricks on the wide table just past the doors of the Michigan State University Surplus store still had mortar stuck to them. The bricks - the surplus store started out with around 400 of them - come from the Shaw Lane Power Plant smokestack that stood next to Spartan Stadium and bore the letters MSC for Michigan State College.
Florencio Avila Cachu was set to be deported Friday. But U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said today – hours after Avila Cachu spoke at a news conference – that the agency stopped his removal pending further review.
TRAVERSE CITY — Six attorneys general in the Great Lakes region called for a multi-state coalition Wednesday that would push the federal government to protect the lakes from invasive species such as Asian carp by cutting off their artificial link to the Mississippi River basin.
Former Gov. John Engler weighed in on the U.S. Senate race this morning, opining that former charter school executive Clark Durant, a Grosse Pointe Republican, should stick with the education field and bow out of the race to beat U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow.
State Rep. Tim Melton, an Auburn Hills Democrat sometimes at odds with his party on education and other issues, announced Tuesday that he will resign his seat effective Sept. 9 to join the education reform organization started by former Washington, D.C., schools chief Michelle Rhee.
State Superintendent Mike Flanagan has asked Gov. Rick Snyder to appoint a financial review team for the Highland Park School District after determining the district is in financial stress.
Michigan's $385-billion defense contracting industry -- the 10th-largest in the country -- likely will be spared a direct hit when the newly formed Joint Selection Committee on Deficit Reduction begins targeting potential cuts in the federal budget in September, said key federal lawmakers.
A major northern Michigan health care group has issued an ultimatum for employees: Get a flu shot by Dec. 31 or get fired.
Two former rivals joined hands Monday with the hopes of putting a U.S. Senate seat back in Republican hands in the 2012 election.
Two people are returning to federal court in Grand Rapids to be sentenced for putting a pie in the face of U.S. Sen. Carl Levin.
Lawyers for former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick urged a federal judge Monday to reject a magistrate's recommendation that the City of Detroit be punished for failing to preserve e-mails that might have shed light on the slaying of an exotic dancer said to have performed at a long-rumored party at the Manoogian Mansion.
Republican Congressman Thaddeus McCotter finally had planned to chat with reporters today in Lansing but suddenly canceled.
Michigan universities and alumni associations that offer branded credit cards made $2.7 million in commissions and royalties last year, according to a first-ever Federal Reserve report required by new laws that regulate marketing to college students.
Although the overall relationship between public-sector unions and their employers was positive, more than half of local municipal leaders say the unions are dragging down their community's bottom line, according to a University of Michigan study released Monday.
State Rep. Tim Melton, an Auburn Hills Democrat sometimes at odd with his party on education and other issues, announced this morning that he will resign his seat effective Sept. 9 to join the education reform organization started by former Washington D.C. schools chief Michelle Rhee.
Members of the Greater Lansing Islamic Society have issued a dinner invitation to Terry Jones, the Florida pastor whose support of Quran-burning caused a national furor.
After a closer look, sticks found last weekend during a cleanup of the White Pigeon River were insulators. State police inspected them at the request of St. Joseph County authorities.
Zeeland Public Schools in Ottawa County is paying for the popular high-tech tablets with money from a 2010 bond sale. High school students are getting iPads today while kids in middle school must wait until winter.
"If there’s an indication of favoritism -- or just plain bad judgment -- we need to make sure the public knows we have investigated it and taken appropriate action," the police chief said today. "That was our assessment: he didn’t do his job ... officers are directed to make arrests."
In a Southfield auditorium filled with about 100 supporters, Gov. Rick Snyder endorsed former U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra’s bid to take on U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow, who is serving her second term in the U.S. Senate after beating incumbent U.S. Sen. Spencer Abraham, an Auburn Hills Republican, in 2000.
Yellowstone National Park officials say a grizzly bear killed a 59-year-old Michigan man whose body was found by hikers last week.
College students know their family is just a phone call away. And for many, mom or dad might be just minutes away.
State Superintendent Mike Flanagan said the state needs to come up with a solution to resolving the massive debt facing Detroit Public Schools so the impact isn’t felt on the district’s students.
AAA Michigan says gasoline prices are up 11 cents per gallon over the past week to a statewide average of $3.77.
Conflicts over tight budgets could be one reason 56% of local leaders have told a University of Michigan survey that unionized workers have had a negative effect on their community's fiscal health.
As students return to the University of Michigan in earnest this week, Ann Arbor Police are sifting through more than 600 tips concerning the series of attacks and rapes during summer break.
Funeral services also are scheduled at noon today at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Grand Rapids for U.S. Army Cpl. Joseph A. VanDreumel.
Volunteers removing debris from the White Pigeon River in southwestern Michigan discovered 10 sticks of dynamite.
The Marquette County sheriff's office says he's 44-year-old Neil Kruschke Jr. of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. He was clearing trees from a road and may have fallen. Deputies believe the chainsaw slid under protective headgear and cut his throat and chest.
Talk about a voyage of discovery. Five science students from Arthur Hill High School in Saginaw found much more than they were looking for in May when they ventured onto Lake Huron in search of a century-old shipwreck
Built by hand, the biplane that pilot Bob Richards will fly at an air show in Oakland County today is the type of aircraft that has come under scrutiny by federal safety officials who are studying the accident rate among amateur-built planes.
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