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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 3:00 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) - The woman who made history two years ago by becoming the first female speaker of the House has been re-elected to that post.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 2:50 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama says he will bar pork-barrel projects from the massive economic stimulus bill he wants Congress to pass.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 2:48 PM
Governor Jennifer M. Granholm has signed legislation that will help protect Michigan’s vast water resources, including the Great Lakes, by significantly reducing the amount of phosphorus contained in household dish and laundry detergents sold in Michigan.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 2:46 PM
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's unemployment claims systems have crashed, overwhelmed by tens of thousands of jobless New Yorkers trying to call or log in at once ahead of this week's filing deadline.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 2:29 PM
Environmentalists and an American Indian tribe are voicing opposition to a proposed coal-fired power plant in northern Michigan.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 2:26 PM
Baby Jessica's adoptive father, who lost a high-profile custody fight that received national media exposure in the 1990s, is trying to rebound from a New Year's Day fire that damaged his apartment.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 2:12 PM
Just hours after the drawing of the Millionarie Raflle, the first winner has claimed $100,000.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 2:06 PM
The Hurley Foundation has received a $25,000 grant from the Hougon Foundation to purchase a VeinViewer (tm).
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 1:09 PM
An appeals court has given new life to a lawsuit that claims a Michigan school district didn't do enough to stop the harassment and humiliation of a student.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Punk guitarist Ron Asheton of The Stooges has been found dead in his Ann Arbor home. He was 60.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Regional unemployment rates increased in 16 of Michigan's 17 major labor markets in November.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 12:07 PM
Christine Beatty, the former lover and chief of staff of jailed ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, has been sentenced to 120 days behind bars for lying about their affair on the witness stand.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 11:52 AM
President-elect Barack Obama's new ride has arrived. The Detroit News reports Tuesday that a new model of a presidential limousine made by General Motors Corp. has been delivered to the Secret Service.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 11:41 AM
Dow Chemical says it will pursue legal action against a state-owned Kuwaiti company that pulled out of a joint venture agreement a week ago and already is in talks to revive the deal with another partner.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Roland Burris announced he was rejected for Barack Obama's Senate seat as lawmakers awaited the gaveling of the 111th Congress into session.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 11:37 AM
Greektown Casino in Detroit has hired a Las Vegas-based turnaround firm as the casino works to emerge from bankruptcy protection.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 11:31 AM
Five Blackwater Worldwide security guards have pleaded not guilty to manslaughter charges in the 2007 shooting deaths of 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 11:27 AM
Democrats Mark Schauer and Gary Peters are entering the U.S. House after defeating Republican incumbents last November.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 11:22 AM
A Pontiac judge has ordered two 14-year-olds tried as adults on first-degree murder charges in the fatal beating of a 61-year-old homeless man.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 11:15 AM
Nissan Motor Co. has scuttled a plan by some of its Michigan dealers to attend the North American International Auto Show.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 10:39 AM
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Palestinian medical officials say the death toll from an Israeli airstrike outside a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip has risen to 30.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 10:36 AM
Consumers who apply for federal coupons to pay for converter boxes ahead of next month's transition to digital television broadcasts are being placed on a waiting list and may not receive their vouchers before the switchover, the Commerce Department said Monday.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 10:32 AM
An index of activity in the U.S. services sector contracted at a slower pace in December as new orders and employment improved.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 10:32 AM
NEW YORK (AP) - Wall Street is paring some of its earlier gains following mixed readings on the economy.
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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 at 10:29 AM
The Democratic-dominated Congress convenes Tuesday to confront perhaps the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and to grapple with a hugely ambitious agenda set by President-elect Barack Obama.
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