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A Hamtramck man is the latest Michigan soldier who died in a long-ago war to have his remains identified by modern technology. 19-year-old Army Pfc. John A. Shelemba was reported missing in action July 20, 1950, while defending the South Korean city of Daejon. His body was recovered after the …

Michigan is now included in a nationwide recall of hard-boiled eggs and products made from them. Almark Foods has shut down production at its facility in Gainesville, Georgia, because of possible listeria contamination. The recall affects products carrying Walmart’s Great Value house brand name, along with the Almark and Eggland’s …

A state representative is apologizing after she was arrested for drunk driving late last week. 48-year-old Democrat Rebekah Warren of Ann Arbor was pulled over just before midnight Thursday by police in Auburn Hills, in Oakland County. Officers say she was weaving through traffic, and sideswiped a guard rail. She …

A creepy green ooze that began to spread across a Detroit-area freeway more than a week ago has led to a full-scale battle to secure a deteriorating building that once housed a plating company. The green slime shut down a lane of I-696 in Madison Heights on December 20th. Testing …

The Michigan Supreme Court will not step in to expedite a decision on Michigan’s attempt to ban the sale of flavored nicotine-based e-cigarette products.  Governor Gretchen Whitmer had asked the court to intervene after a Court of Claims judge blocked the ban in October. With Justice Stephen Markman dissenting, the …

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is vowing to press forward with her investigation into clergy sexual abuse next year. Nessel released some figures this morning. Based on her department’s reviews of the Marquette, Gaylord and Grand Rapids Catholic Dioceses, 552 victims have named 270 priests as abusers. 130 cases were …

At least one of the Democrats who entered the presidential race late in the game, won’t be in the game in Michigan. Former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick has fallen short of the number of petition signatures he needed to be included on the state primary ballot. Patrick submitted 13,777 signatures …

There’s a sad ending to the story we reported yesterday about a missing 5-year-old boy in central Michigan. The body of Beau Brennan Belson was found in a pond on his grandparents’ property near Six Lakes in Montcalm County. He and other family members had been playing in the area …

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says a comment by her communications director that her office was suspending its investigation into the Larry Nassar sexual misconduct scandal at Michigan State University was not accurate. In a statement released yesterday morning, Nessel said she remains “deeply committed to finding the truth about …

Search crews are frantically combing through a rural area in the central Lower Peninsula, looking for a missing 5-year-old child. Beau Brennan Belson was last seen playing with other family members yesterday afternoon, outside a home in Six Lakes, about 45 miles northwest of Grand Rapids in northern Montcalm County. …