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The effects of not getting a good night's sleep range from emotional and behavior problems in children to adults drowsing off while driving or at work, experts say.
An increased reliance on prescription painkillers and the resulting addiction has now shown up in the most vulnerable patients -- America's newborns.
Metro Detroit could see record high temperatures this week, after the region's April temperatures proved cooler than March for the first time in recorded history, according to the National Weather Service.
In today's world of touchscreens, each generation has gotten better but they all seem to be magnets for fingerprints and smudges. The iEraser cleaning block is about the size of a deck of cards and has what the company website calls "a stable and uniform cleaning surface" on one side to clean your screen.
Authorities say the latest search by volunteers for a West Michigan baby last seen in June turned up nothing of importance.
The state has a hugely disruptive reconstruction project on the books for I-96 in Wayne County and is giving motorists and residents a two-year warning that a long stretch of the expressway will close down. The Michigan Department of Transportation said Monday that it will rebuild seven miles of I-96 between Newburgh and Telegraph roads in Livonia and Redford Township starting in early 2014.
Waterford Township Police are investigating the second fatal crash in two days in the township, according to officials there. One person died in a crash at 11 p.m. Monday on Sashabaw Road at Athens, Waterford Township Police Chief Daniel McCaw said this morning.
A sixth-grader took the witness stand Monday and testified against her father, Rahim Lockridge, describing how he put her mother in a chokehold during an argument in the family's Southfield home in September. When he released Kenyatta Lockridge, 32, she dropped to the ground and died moments later, according to testimony.
Authorities say a 13-month-old suburban Detroit boy has died after being struck by a pickup truck that pulled into a mid-Michigan driveway.
Nearly two years after an Enbridge Energy Partners pipeline ruptured in Marshall, laws covering pipeline safety are inadequate, according to a new report released by the National Wildlife Federation.
Pizza-delivery chain Domino's Pizza said today its first-quarter profit fell 24%, hurt by lower revenue and costs related to a debt recapitalization completed during the quarter.
Several City Council members, wary that none of the appointees so far to the board that will oversee Detroit's troubled finances lives inside the city, said Monday that residency will weigh strongly as they consider candidates for the council's two picks on the oversight panel.
Mayor Dave Bing said Monday that he is encouraged by early signs that changes to bus service levels are helping stabilize the city's troubled bus system.
Lansing police say they're investigating the death of a 2-year-old boy that was reported as suspicious.
In a new public corruption case unfolding in federal court, two Detroit Housing Commission employees were charged Monday with stealing government vouchers designed to help needy families pay for affordable housing. The government ended up paying roughly $25,000 to help pay the rent for one of the defendants and her brother, records show.
Jury selection is set to begin today in the first murder trial of a Flint man who is accused of killing and wounding several men in a series of stabbings in 2010. Elias Abuelazam is going on trial in the stabbing death of Arnold Minor, 49, who was killed in August 2010 in front of a motorcycle shop on South Saginaw near Barton on Flint's south side.
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Homicides in Detroit are down compared with last year, but other major crimes have seen slight increases, according to statistics released Monday by the Detroit Police Department during a quarterly report to the community at Triumph Baptist Church. As of Monday, there had been 98 homicides in Detroit, compared with 102 by the same time in 2011.
A continuing increase in underweight babies threatens the health of the youngest Michiganders, according to a report released Monday. Almost 10,000 low birth-weight babies are born each year in the state -- a trend that worsened by 7% between 2000 and 2010, according to the report by KidsCount in Michigan.
Books and bits united Monday as Microsoft provided an infusion of money to help Barnes & Noble compete with top electronic bookseller Amazon. In exchange, Microsoft gets a long-desired foothold in the business of e-books and college textbooks.
ANN ARBOR Two Ann Arbor pharmacies have agreed to pay $500,000 to settle claims that they unlawfully sold prescription pain pills on the Internet, the U.S. Attorney's Office announced Monday.
Almost 10,000 low-birthweight babies are born each year in the state — a trend that worsened by 7% between 2000 and 2010, according “Right Start in Michigan and Its Counties – 2012” by KidsCount in Michigan.
Mayor Dave Bing said he was encouraged by early signs that changes to bus service levels provided are helping stabilize the city’s troubled bus system.
Fund-raising by Michigan political action committees is up from two years ago but still lags behind the peak reached in the 2006 election cycle, a watchdog group reported today.
Boys in hoodies look at a U.S. flag from behind a wrought-iron fence in a stark photo snapped at Golightly Career and Technical Center titled "We are Trayvon Martin." Stars meet in an eye-catching tangle of hues on a huge canvas painted by kindergartners.
Prosecutors said the two companies, The Prescription Shop and The Prescription Shop II, filled more than 17,000 prescriptions of the painkiller hydrocodone through a Florida-based internet scheme that let customers order drugs online without a prescription. Instead, they said, customers completed an online questionnaire and paid for the drugs with a credit card.
The Michigan Department of Transportation said this morning that it will rebuild seven miles of I-96 between Newburgh and Telegraph roads in Livonia and Redford Township starting in early 2014.
Rain will drench the region today before temperatures climb into the 80s by Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.
Detroit firefighters discovered the bodies of a man and woman in a burning car on the city's west side overnight, according to investigators.
Metro Detroit drivers got a final dose of April showers tonight with standing water reported on the Lodge Freeway near downtown Detroit and near I-96 and Telegraph in Redford.
Elias Abuelazam is charged with killing a 49-year-old man whose body was found in the middle of a busy street, one of three murders and six attempted murders he's accused of in Genesee County.
Two would-be carjackers were arrested Monday after they chased their intended victims to the rear of the Harper Woods police department then continued to pursue them around a parking area, police said.
A 19-year-old man who authorities say stole 17 lighters from the Harrison Township Kroger is accused in a string of arson fires around the township last week.
A 16-year-old Pontiac boy died after crashing a stolen car in Waterford Township Sunday night, according to police.
Police spokeswoman Lt. Renee Bush said Brice Moss’ mother, who is from Detroit, reported him missing Saturday. Police went to his home in the 1000 block of Vaughn and talked with three roommates around 11:30 p.m. Saturday, she said.
The school says Snyder will receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree during the ceremony on Saturday afternoon at the College Quadrangle. If the event is moved indoors due it will take place at Bernard T. Lomas Fieldhouse of the Dow Recreation and Wellness Center.
Lawrence Technological University named Virinder K. Moudgil as its new president today.
Books and bits united Monday as Microsoft provided an infusion of money to help Barnes & Noble compete with top electronic bookseller Amazon. In exchange, Microsoft gets a long-desired foothold in the business of e-books and college textbooks.
Retire? After a measly 50 years? Bite your tongue. Ed Kingins is just getting started. For the last 50 years, he has been the music director at Fort Street Presbyterian Church in Detroit. Think about that -- 50 years at one job. Amazing.
Come along in this exclusive new video as Free Press reporters M.L. Elrick and John Wisely crisscross metro Detroit with photographer Brian Kaufman, seeking out companies that received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano’s campaign funds. Few, if any, political consultants had heard of the companies. So the Free Press hit the road hoping to speak with the people behind companies, including QTI, CARF Consultants and Absolute Services.
The public will get a chance today to learn whom the City Council may name to the financial advisory board that will wield broad power over Detroit's finances as the city struggles to turn its fiscal outlook around.
Cindy Roback stood outside her family's business in Warren on Sunday and watched firefighters put out a blaze. A week before, she buried her 37-year-old son. "We've had one tragedy after another," Roback said. The fire started about 9 a.m. at Young's Garden Mart & Christmas Fantasy on Ryan Road just north of I-696.
Dale Casto won't be counting on any more big gifts from his wife, Kathy, after what she's going to give him on their 35th wedding anniversary. Her kidney.
A report written in response to a massive oil spill in southern Michigan concludes federal laws are inadequate to protect the Great Lakes basin from oil pollution and states should fill the gaps.
AAA Michigan says gasoline prices were stable during the past week around a statewide average of $3.83 per gallon.
Anti-Islam advocates from across the U.S. gathered Sunday in Dearborn for a conference to bring attention to what they say is a problem of Muslim honor killings. About 150 gathered at the Hyatt in Dearborn for the Jessica Mokdad Human Rights Conference, named after a 20-year-old Arab-American Muslim woman who was killed by her stepfather last year in Warren.
Authorities have released the name of a man who died of a blow to the head in the backyard of his home in southern Michigan following a fight with a neighbor.
Two years after they were made legal by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, super political action committees that can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money are playing an important role in the 2012 presidential race. Although a dozen super PACs have been set up in Michigan, it remains to be seen how influential they will be in state politics.
Whirlpool is set to officially open its new office campus in Benton Harbor. The appliance-maker says the $70 million project is a part of a larger plan to consolidate 15 facilities into three centralized office campuses.
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