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The Rev. Jesse Jackson and U.S. Rep. John Conyers joined religious and civil rights leaders Thursday to promise protests and possible civil disobedience against Michigan's new emergency manager law that could lead to a takeover of Detroit government.
As U.S. troops prepare for their final withdrawal from Iraq, a consortium of Michigan companies is eager to make the American presence felt in a different way by overseeing the building of a new city near Baghdad that draws on the skills of Iraqi immigrants living in Michigan.
Michigan and Wisconsin have thrown off the gloves and are engaged in hand-to-hand combat in a debate over which of them looks more like a mitten.
Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is sticking to his topic — defense spending — in his first public speech since an Atlanta businesswoman alleged that they had a 13-year extramarital affair.
Many manufacturers and agribusinesses support a new trade deal with South Korea, one reason President Barack Obama and his counterpart from that nation are heading to suburban Detroit on Friday to tour a General Motors plant where cars are being built with South Korean parts.
Michele Shoemaker spent Wednesday packing, faced with a weekend deadline to leave the simple two-bedroom rental in Jackson where she and her 15-year-old son have lived for five years. About to be cut off from welfare and with no job, she has sent him to live with her sister and his cousins, but there's no room for her.
An ex-convict who killed seven people in July before taking his own life in a Grand Rapids shooting spree had pledged in a suicide note to take his mother-in-law "with me."
Gov. Rick Snyder plans to direct doctors in Michigan to begin monitoring the body weight of their young patients and provide the data to a state registry in one of the most extensive government efforts to address the growing problem of pediatric obesity, the Associated Press has learned.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney didn't back down Thursday from his opposition to a multibillion-dollar federal bailout for General Motors and Chrysler, even as Michigan autoworkers protesting his campaign appearances pointed to the companies' resurgence as a sign Romney was wrong.
David Hecker wasn't sure what to expect when he showed up at the Capitol earlier this year for a meeting with Rick Snyder, the new Republican governor he had worked to defeat in the 2010 election.
Michigan no longer would boast the nation's most generous tax breaks for seniors if a compromise plan to tax retirement income announced Tuesday becomes law.
Mostly black Detroit, facing diminished congressional clout after losing a quarter of its population over the past decade, likely will have to reach farther into its mostly white suburbs to keep black majorities in its two congressional districts.
Republican Gov. Rick Snyder is drawing recall threats and angry protests over his attempt to do what no Michigan governor has tried in more than 40 years: Tax the pension and 401(k) incomes of millions of retirees.
Gov. Rick Snyder is taking on everyone from senior citizens to state workers, public schools to city halls in his first budget proposal as he works to get Michigan on sound financial footing.
Republican Gov. Rick Snyder on Wednesday laid out a road map for addressing Michigan's ills that fit neatly with his past as a venture capitalist, accountant and computer company executive.
Both the Republican and Democratic gubernatorial candidates say they don't plan to raise Michigan residents' taxes and that they'll cut business taxes so companies can create more jobs.
Gov. Jennifer Granholm said Monday she wants to pour $25 million into the Pure Michigan campaign, getting commercials back on the air by the holidays.
The two men running for Michigan governor stuck to familiar themes in their only debate Sunday, with Democrat Virg Bernero accusing Republican Rick Snyder of benefiting financially while his companies laid off American workers and Snyder accusing Bernero of being a career politician flinging lies.
Michigan should join the list of states where mortgage companies are freezing home foreclosures, two Detroit congressional members and a gubernatorial candidate said Wednesday.
The openly gay student assembly president at the University of Michigan who claims he's been frequently harassed by an assistant state attorney general said Wednesday that the man's personal blog targeting him was "hurtful."
It looks like Michigan won't lose nearly $500 million in federal road dollars after all.
The Michigan State Spartans are honoring coach Mark Dantonio by wearing the letter D on the backs of their helmets.
A person with knowledge of the situation says Michigan State coach Mark Dantonio had a heart attack after his team's overtime victory against Notre Dame.
Rick Snyder and Virg Bernero agreed Friday that making Michigan a right-to-work state is not something they'd pursue if elected governor.
Michigan's economy, battered over the past decade by hundreds of thousands of lost manufacturing jobs, could surge again in coming decades by making robots for use in everyday life, futurist George Friedman said Tuesday.
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