MARQUETTE ­- Volunteers will fan out across the southern part of the state beginning Saturday to give the state highway roadsides their annual spring cleaning as Michigan Department of Transportation Adopt-A-Highway groups pick up litter from Saturday to April 19. The year’s first AAH ...

Dear Annie: My spouse and I chose to raise our kids in a neighborhood with excellent schools and a strong sense of community. The downside is that it's also a very affluent area, and many of the families around us are far wealthier than we are. We work hard and live comfortably enough, but we ...

Dear Heloise: I know you warn people never to give out their personal information, but since this past Christmas, I have been blasted with phone calls from callers who claim to be from some fake government agency and are checking to see if I'm gullible enough to give out information about my ...

Nautical antiques are popular decorations. Their appeal has many aspects: a call back to another time; a sense of seafaring adventure; even the durability and practicality of something made to survive the high seas. This pair of copper anchor lights from the early 20th century sold for $384 at ...

By KEITH ROACH, M.D. Syndicated columnist Dear Dr. Roach: Why didn’t you recommend one of the at-home kits for the person with Lynch syndrome who had a bad reaction during her colonoscopy? I don’t ever intend to have another colonoscopy. It is invasive, the prep is too much (yes, I ...

By ANNIE LANE Syndicated columnist Dear Annie: I never imagined I’d be packing school lunches again at age 62. My husband “Tom” and I raised our children, worked hard and finally reached that stage where life felt calmer. We down-sized, paid off most of what we owed and talked about ...