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After a successful run last year, the trolley is rolling back into southern Oakland County this summer, serving an expanded five-city region.

Monica Conyers should spend a minimum of three years in prison, with no time off for good behavior.

COLUMBIA TWP. - A developer with plans to renovate the old Kmart building on Ridge Avenue is trying to rally public support for a tax-increment-financing deal with Columbia Township.

Flying in the morning to avoid the heat, Kelly Burris and her co-pilot Erin Recke won the Air Race Classic, an all-female cross-country airplane race.

Thursday morning in Pleasant Ridge I attended the latest in a series of conversations being conducted around the state by the Center for Michigan, the 'think and do tank' established by Ann Arbor business leader/philanthropist Phil Power to build consensus on the state's future.

Wednesday at 5 p.m. is the deadline to register for Thursday morning's free breakfast - bagels, donuts, coffee and tea - at a public meeting called 'Michigan's Defining Moment,' on issues facing Michigan and its voters in 2010.

Imagine this: A 10-screen movie theater for first-run films, 12-lane bowling alley and bar that serves alcohol in the vacant lot at the northwest corner of 11 Mile and Troy in downtown Royal Oak.

PONTIAC, Mich. - A suburban Detroit 18-year-old has apologized for lighting a man's pants on fire and causing a third-degree burn to his groin.

In today's edition, you will find beautiful photographs of Shrine High School seniors as they make the passage from high school to adult life during graduation.

A suburban Detroit 18-year-old has pleaded guilty to lighting a man's pants on fire and causing a third-degree burn to his groin.

Karen Twomey, 33, of Pleasant Ridge became the newest member of the Ferndale Public Schools Board of Education on May 5 after an election in which she faced no true competition.

For nonsmokers, the bill that state Sen. Tupac Hunter, D-Detroit, introduced last month in the Legislature was another glimmer of hope that all Michigan workplaces - including restaurants and bars - will eventually be smoke-free. Hunter's proposal would put workplace smoking on the November 2010 ballot, letting voters decide an issue that has been ...

If the federal government can throw a trillion dollars or so to a bunch of Wall Streeters with little or no accountability, funding for infrastructure necessities like public transportation should be a give-me. Ron Embree, Taylor Buck Rogers' bullet trains are expensive "bridge to nowhere" boondoggles.

Residents concerned about the idea of a new wine bar in their city may have jumped the gun, as the prospective business owner has withdrawn her liquor license request for the time being.

The Southfield Eccentric is one of six publications to be incorporated into the new South Oakland Eccentric, a weekly newspaper serving Berkley, Clawson, Huntington Woods, Pleasant Ridge, Royal Oak and Southfield, the Observer & Eccentric Newspapers has announced.

A proposal to turn a small office building Pleasant Ridge into a wine bar has pitted the would-be business owner against residents in a town that has been dry since its founding in 1928.

A Walnut Hills man is under arrest after allegedly leading police on a chase Saturday morning.

Employers looking to trim the costs of providing health benefits for workers are increasingly pairing wellness incentives with consumer-driven health plans.

Ferndale police recently arrested an 18-year-old Pleasant Ridge man for lighting another man on fire and causing severe burns to his thigh.