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Source: news.yahoo.com --- 1 day ago
AP - Police in this Upper Peninsula town had forgotten about the $1 parking ticket written on Sept. 1, 1976. But the woman who had found it on her windshield hadn't. ...

Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 22 hours ago
The Fix | Senator to visit ousted states for first time in nine months as focus shifts to general election. ...

Source: www.usatoday.com --- 23 hours ago
Barack Obama is looking ahead to two states crucial to Democratic hopes for recapturing the White House in November as he shrugs ... ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 6 hours ago
CALUMET, Mich. — Police in this Upper Peninsula town had forgotten about the $1 parking ticket written on Sept. 1, 1976. But the woman who had found it on her windshield hadn't. The ticket, a $20 bill and a note arrived at police headquarters last month in a plain white envelope with no return address. The note read: "I always had good intentions of paying it. I put it aside and every once in a while I would come across it and said `someday I'm going to pay it.' Now I think it's time." The fine for an unpaid meter violation increased to $5 after 72 hours, said Police Chief David Outinen, but it hadn't increased beyond that. He told The Daily Mining Gazette of Houghton that he couldn't remember someone making good on an unpaid ticket after so much time. The woman apparently hopes her payment closes the matter. "Please don't try and track me down. I am a respectable lady," she wrote. ...

Source: www.freep.com --- 3 hours ago
Southeast Michigan's economic development agencies said today that their efforts in 2007 attracted 177 new projects to the region with 16,610 new jobs and $4 billion in new investment. ...

Source: www.detnews.com --- 1 day ago
When Michigan voters headed to the polls in 2004 to decide the fate of a proposed amendment to the state Constitution, they were told the following by its lead proponent: ...

Source: www.detnews.com --- 10 hours ago
LANSING -- Michigan motorists would get a three-month holiday from the state sales tax on gas this summer -- a break of about a quarter per gallon -- under a plan unveiled Monday by a couple of House Republican lawmakers. ...

Source: www.detnews.com --- 10 hours ago
After nine years of steady decline, the total number of traffic crashes in southeastern Michigan is on the rise. ...

Source: www.detnews.com --- 9 hours ago
LANSING -- John Ramsey won't run for the Michigan House after all. ...

Source: www.mlive.com --- 1 day ago
LANSING — The number of Michigan households getting food stamps has risen 53 percent in the past five years, with one in eight state residents now aided by the nutrition assistance program, authorities say. In all, 590,600 state households got... ...

Source: www.lansingstatejournal.com --- 1 day ago
If you get a little tingle whenever you see Michigan's lakes, waterfalls and beaches featured in a Pure Michigan ad, Travel Michigan head George Zimmermann knows just what you're feeling. ...

Source: www.bignewsnetwork.com --- 1 day ago
Detroit man taking part in the annual Tour of the Scioto (seye-OH'-tuh) Valley was killed when he was struck from behind by a motorist and thrown from his bicycle.Fifty-seven-year-old William Crowley ... ...

Source: www.statenews.com --- 13 hours ago
As Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., prepares to campaign in Michigan for the first time Wednesday, MSU political science chairman Richard Hula said the move may signal he is entering the second phase of his campaign — the run against Republican nominee Sen. ...

Source: www.statenews.com --- 9 hours ago
Personal finances are a source of concern for adults across the state, according to MSU’s quarterly State of the State Survey. The random telephone survey, which is conducted about four times each year by MSU’s Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, was established in 1994. ...

Source: www.lansingstatejournal.com --- 10 hours ago
The Lansing area is building on its traditional economic foundation of cars, college and the Capitol, adding insurance and financial services to the mix. ...

Source: www.wsbt.com --- 7 hours ago
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama heads to Michigan on Wednesday intent on making a splash in a state where he didn't even appear on the Democratic primary ballot. ...

Source: www.clickondetroit.com --- 4 hours ago
Authorities say 26 illegal immigrants are being held in Chippewa County after a series of arrests over the weekend. ...

Source: www.washblade.com --- 3 hours ago
The Detroit News | May. 13 at 8:31 AM ... ...

Source: www.lansingstatejournal.com --- 6 hours ago
Attendance at Cristo Rey Community Center's free breakfasts has doubled in the past year. ...