LANSING - Welfare reform that would deny benefits to people who test positive for drugs or whose child is truant from school passed the state House of Representatives on Wednesday.
Rochester - U.S. Rep. Gary Peters became the first candidate Wednesday to enter the race for the first open U.S. Senate seat in Michigan in two decades, making the announcement at a business his great-great grandfather once established.
Battle Creek's police chief is demanding an apology after the county prosecutor said a city commissioner has no evidence of corruption. "I think his behavior insinuating that the Battle Creek Police Department is corrupt has been reckless and embarrassing and he owes the Battle Creek Police Department and the people of Battle Creek a public apology," Chief Jackie Hampton said.
