Clinton News

Tom Persinger, 39, studies in the basement of his parents home. He moved in after losing his job in the auto industry, where he made about $60,000 a year as a GM contractor.

The Chippewa Valley Board of Education agreed to spend a portion of its 2005 building and site funds to have the district's elementary school baseball diamonds cleaned up and improved.

A Clinton Township man accused of murdering his parents over money walked out of Macomb County Jail this afternoon, hours after a Macomb Circuit Court judge granted him bond.

About 75 middle-schoolers in Holt got after-school math help during the past school year, completing work online with live help from teachers.

A Classic for Kids: Onstage today at Meadow Brook Music Festival is "Goodnight Moon." The musical is about a bunny's bedtime ritual of saying good night to everything in sight before hitting the sack.

New Windsor Elementary School held its 144th annual Sands Medal Award and Clintonian Society Induction Ceremony recently in front of current and former students, family members and teachers.

Property owners in South Lyon will have to pay for inspections of fire hydrants at their condo complexes, strip malls and industrial sites.

Paul Muelle, natural resources director with the Huron-Clinton Metropark Authority, has been trying for years to eliminate the E. coli sources that force health officials to temporarily close Metro Beach in Macomb County during the summer.

Based on how Washington usually works, here's how the health-care debate that began with President Obama's speech to the American Medical Association might go: Though nearly 50 million Americans have no health coverage, more than 250 million do have some form of coverage.

Participants must bring their own dinners, but they'll feast freely on stories to be offered at the Storytellers Picnic Saturday at the Clinton Visitor Center.

Waterford Township, in conjunction with the Oakland County Water Resources Commissioner's Office, has delineated rising sewer treatment rates for 2009-10 based on projections handed down by the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department .

Everyone knows that the fourth weekend in June is going to be a busy one for the city of Mount Clemens, with a festival and fireworks going on.

Did "Clintonism" go down with Terry McAuliffe in Virginia? David Greenberg and Julian Zelizer say that, if you look at the Obama administration, you'll find the philosophy alive and well.

The Department of Human Services Bureau of Children and Adult Licensing is recommending that the license for Little Scholars and Clinton child care facility be revoked after a 2-year-old boy allegedly got out of the center and was found wandering near the intersection of Cass Avenue and Heydenreich in Clinton Township during rush hour.

Speeding down the slippery slope of a waterslide and crashing into the cool pool basin below is all it takes to chill out in the dog days of summer.

Some people just don't learn. A local man was recently arrested by the Macomb County Sheriff's Office for allegedly breaking into an apartment complex he was convicted of stealing from just a few months ago.

Perceptive residents helped officers make two unrelated arrests for burglary, police said today.

Next to the Mill Pond and the Imagination Station Park. When: 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Sat., through Oct.

May is Historic Preservation Month. Dr. Paula Mohr of Iowa's State Historical Society has asked each community to have a project related to preservation.

What some Romeo residents currently consider an eyesore may become one of the busiest places in town if a recent park plan comes to fruition.