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Hoffa legend endures 50 years later

DETROIT — It was September 2012 and dozens of residents looked on as police cordoned off the area around a shed just northeast of Detroit. Low whispers about what — or who — officers were searching for grew to more excited chatter when the name Jimmy Hoffa started floating around the ...

Michigan program for new moms touted as national model

FLINT — A procession of mothers wearing red sashes, pushing strollers and tending to toddlers made their way last Friday to a little festival in Flint, where families received diapers and kids played. It was called a "baby parade." The sashes indicated the women were participants of a ...

Guv blames ‘massive economic uncertainty’ for failure to build plant

LANSING — Plans to build a semiconductor manufacturing plant in Michigan have fallen through and Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Wednesday that "massive economic uncertainty" is to blame. Bringing the company to Michigan was a key goal for Whitmer, a Democrat and potential 2028 ...