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There may be some improvement in the availability of financing for real estate in 2010, but not much, according to panelists at a University of Michigan conference Wednesday.

FILE - In this March 21, 2008 file photo, a scanner passes over a book at the University of Michigan... FILE - In this March 21, 2008 file photo, a scanner passes over a book at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., where one of hundreds of librarians from all over the world was helping Google Inc.'s Book Search create digital versions of ...

A man who University of Michigan police say grabbed a female student's buttocks at the Michigan Union Tuesday was arrested today, police spokeswoman Diane Brown said.

A second man accused of stealing money out of a street musician's tip bin in Nickels Arcade last month was arrested, Ann Arbor police said.

A 20-year-old man was assaulted early Monday during a fight at the The 5th Quarter that involved the club's security personnel, Ann Arbor police Lt.

The city of Ann Arbor Green Living website is a central place to find environmental news and information.

A dog bit an Ann Arbor woman in the thigh, "puncturing her running pants and skin," while she was jogging Sunday on Barber Avenue, an Ann Arbor police report said.

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Ann Arbor voters came out in strong support of the incumbents on Election Day, reelecting Sabra Briere to a second term in the 1st Ward and Marcia Higgins to a sixth term in the 4th Ward.

The annual Sundance Film Festival is expanding to Nashville and seven other cities.

Sir Simon Rattle's new contract with the Berlin Philharmonic is just days old but already he's looking ahead _ to the orchestra's coast-to-coast tour U.S. tour starting this week, and to the role that classical music can and will play in 21st century society.

We've all got them -- those ideas that we know, just know, would make a fortune if we could get them to a store shelf.

WHAT IT IS: Essentially, no joke here, a real bible of all things smoked pig, an engrossing, affably rambling, borderline obsessive one-stop swine seminar, from the genealogy of Wilshire-cut bacon to an appreciation of the repulsive lardo , with two-dozen bacon-centric recipes you don't see every day .

New listings this week from Ann Arbor SPARK's online jobs board : A senior sales executive and a senior systems administrator with technology company Logic Solutions Inc.

Canton Township -- Police are looking for a woman who they say stole a purse in Ann Arbor and used the victim's credit cards in Canton Township and Westland.

Leigh Greden gives a speech at his last meeting as a member of the Ann Arbor City Council, apologizing to his colleagues for e-mails he sent that have caused controversy this year.

Ann Arbor firefighters this morning are investigating a blaze they termed suspicious in a vacant home on Miller Avenue.

Thursday, November 5, 2009 Borders Group Inc. says it will close 200 Waldenbooks stores and cut 1,500 jobs in January to make the chain smaller and more profitable.

Two masked men armed with handguns robbed a Bank of America branch on Ann Arbor's south side this morning, Ann Arbor police said.

Something unusual is happening in Northville. Tiny doors have appeared at 31 businesses around the city's downtown, and word is that a new type of merchant is setting up shop.