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"The risk of this economic crisis is that people stay isolated, hunkered down and afraid," Collins says.

The company contracted to clean the store, a Washington, Mich.-based cleaning company, received an e-mail from the store manager about the dingy floors, sent someone out to service the buffer, and ran into a hitch.

Area residents who cast their votes decided on a new form of county government and a new school board member.

Pregnant women who take antidepressant medication are three times more likely to have a premature delivery, according to a new study.

Utica Community Schools is forming a citizens group to review the district's building use and to recommend options, which could include closing one or more schools beginning in the 2010-11 school year.

Enjoy a four-course meal and music from bygone eras -- all for a good cause. During November, the Ram's Horn of Shelby Township will donate 5% of proceeds from its newly launched Sunday night dinner shows to Honor Flight Michigan, a nonprofit that helps send veterans to the war memorials in Washington.

Marine City Mayor Bob Lepley offered his endorsement for three city commission candidates at a candidate forum Wednesday at the Washington Life Center.

WASHINGTON -- Michigan Democrat Debbie Stabenow finds herself at the center of a fight in the U.S. Senate over Medicare reform, the societal safety net program's costs and the long-term effect of setting payment rates for physicians.

WASHINGTON - Michigan and the Great Lakes will receive $88,606,000 in the FY 2010 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act.

MARYSVILLE -- Fifth-grade teacher Kate Essian noticed it right away. There was a new enthusiasm from her students, and she said that's in part because of the renovations to Washington Elementary School in Marysville.

Michigan's 17-member congressional delegation wants the Obama administration to boost efforts to aid struggling auto suppliers and other manufacturers.

Reform: It took a Senate panel two days to approve a public option plan after rejecting a pair of public option proposals earlier in the week.

An Amber Alert has been issued for a missing 3-year-old girl and 4-year-old boy.

WASHINGTON -- Michigan Sen. Debbie Stabenow asked President Barack Obama today to press officials from Japan and South Korea over restrictions on American cars in those countries' versions of a cash-for-clunkers stimulus.

For hundreds of students at Blue Water Area elementary schools, it was back to school Tuesday in unfamiliar hallways.

Seniors in the river district will be headed back to school this fall -- not in September, but sometime in October.

Parents who paid tuition for their students to attend Romeo Montessori School received an unfortunate surprise.

When a dumpster delivery company quotes a price on his equipment to a prospective customer for a specific size, the price-and-size-quote should be for a true and accurate cubic footage.

A car crash in Washington Township last weekend killed one man from Macomb Township and left three others seriously injured.

A car crash in Washington Township last weekend killed one man from Macomb Township and left three others seriously injured.