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The 2-year-old girl weighed only 12 pounds when her desperate mother brought her to a health clinic in Haiti last fall.

Cancer kills more than 20,000 Michigan residents each year, but a new report says lawmakers are not doing enough to remove barriers to preventative care, diagnosis and treatment.

Michigan has lost almost half of its manufacturing jobs over the past decade, nearly 450,000 factory positions that paid for homes, cars, vacations and college educations.

It's a tale of bridges that has caused an international dispute. The Ambassador Bridge is shown in this June 4, 2010 file photo.

A billionaire who gave $10 million to the University of Michigan's business school in the late 1990s donated cash he stockpiled by engaging in securities fraud and insider trading, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is alleging .

Rick Snyder is now leading in some polls. Click play below to listen to podcast.

A man convicted of ambushing a group of teens on the Wisconsin-Michigan border in 2008 and killing three of them is being sued by two victims' families.

Craig DeRoche faces an Aug. 25 jury trial following his court appearance Wednesday in Novi's 52-1 District Court.

Virg Bernero, mayor of Lansing, appears to be making the most potent closing attacks.

Cherish Thomas, a Social Work graduate student from the University of Michigan, reaches out to Western Michigan University senior Mercedes McLean after she spoke about how she succeeded from the foster-care system to high school juniors and seniors now in foster care Wednesday morning.

Underwater searchers using sonar found the wreckage of a small medical plane that crashed into Lake Michigan a week ago, officials said Friday.

An oil disaster in Lake Michigan? Not likely, at least not from the 1 million-gallon oil spill in the Kalamazoo River near Marshall, water quality experts say.

It's a crackdown that, for the most part, didn't go into effect as scheduled today because of a judge's order.

At some point in my life, I discovered by accident that I like poetry. I am not sure how it happened, but I ended up a fan of Walt Whitman, and not just because he was the first poet I ever read who wrote about baseball.

Among the treasures at GFWC Headquarters, a favorite is Eva Perry Moore' Federation Pin necklace, profiled in the February + March 2008 issue of GFWC Clubwoman .

For generations, Americans viewed films in stately, single-screen theaters that were pillars of city business districts - an experience that faded with the rise of suburban multiplexes and the decline of downtowns.

Oil from this week's Michigan pipeline spill has breached the dam at Morrow Lake in Comstock Township and is at least halfway to Lake Michigan.

Boaters anchor on the Grand River in downtown Lansing stop to listen to live music during the city's Common Ground music festival.

Yonath shared the 2009 Nobel chemistry award with Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz.

The state Senate passed the "Complete Streets" legislation unanimously Wednesday, sending the bill to Gov.