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A 30-year-old Troy man and four others from the Thumb area were killed when their car hit a tree early this morning along a Tuscola County road.

A 20-year-old Roseville woman was killed early today and a second driver was hospitalized following a two-car, head-on collision on Morovian Road north of 15 Mile Road in Sterling Heights, police reported.

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter crew has rescued two kayakers from Lake Michigan near Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

Birmingham police are asking the public's help in the search for a missing elderly resident who reportedly suffers from dementia.

Highland Park firefighters remained on the scene this morning putting out hot spots on a suspicious fire that apparently began late Friday night on the top floor of the Highland Towers apartment building, causing heavy damage inside the historic brick structure, police said.

The Clarkston Police Department -- which consisted of just the chief and a full-time officer, eight part-time officers and several reservists -- ceased to exist Friday night as a result of budget cuts.

The International Walkers Association organized the first bridge walk on June 25, 1958 - from Mackinaw City to St. Ignace. Some 60 people hoofed it, including Gov. G. Mennen (Soapy) Williams, according to "Mackinac Bridge: A 50-year Chronicle, 1957-2007" by Mike Fornes. In 1959, the walk moved to Labor Day; 250 people walked. The route's direction alternated until 1964, when it permanently became north to south. An average of 50,000 people participate annually.

A Michigan company that provides taxidermy services will be sentenced in November after recently pleading guilty to possessing dead animals listed as international endangered species.

Highland Park firefighters were at the scene of a Friday evening blaze at the historic Highland Towers on Woodward Avenue.

The Michigan Department of Community Health is making one-day supplies of potassium iodide pills available free to people within 10 miles of a nuclear power plant. The department says the move is a precautionary measure and that risk of an accident has not increased. The pills are available at some pharmacies near area nuclear power plants.

Detroit students who take yellow buses to school starting next week will be under the watchful eye of new technologies that track where the vehicles go and what occupants are doing.

Attorneys made their final oral arguments Friday in a case that could decide whether the Detroit school board will be able to make academic decisions while the district's finances are under control of a state appointee.

The short, controversial life of the Michigan Tea Party came to an apparent end Friday in the Michigan Supreme Court. And for the most part, Michigan's tea party activists couldn't be happier.

The secretive effort to create a formal Tea Party political party in Michigan ended Friday with a death sentence from the Michigan Supreme Court.

An accountant from Canton is accused of stealing $350,000 in retirement funds from two clients, and investigators say there may be more victims.

The City of Hamtramck filed a lawsuit Friday in Wayne County Circuit Court against the City of Detroit, seeking $4 million in tax revenues that Hamtramck officials said they are owed. The lawsuit comes after a protracted dispute between the two cities over tax revenues from the General Motors Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Plant.

The Waterford Police Department is laying off 10 police officers, the department's only crime scene investigator, a records clerk and 12 jail officers -- including the chief's son. The reason: a $2.6-million department shortfall projected for 2011.

Officials at Selfridge Air National Guard Base will move about 180 employees back into two buildings that have been cleaned after an outbreak of legionnaires' disease there in August.

About half the animals adopted out of the Macomb County Animal Shelter may not be spayed or neutered by their new owners, prompting the county agency to start altering adoptable dogs and cats themselves.

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