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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 ...

Passenger thwarted in attempt to open plane door midflight

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — A regional airline flight heading to Detroit had to make an emergency landing in eastern Iowa after a passenger fought with a flight attendant and tried to open an exit door midair, according to the pilot's communication with air traffic controllers. The pilot of the SkyWest Airlines Flight 3612 contacted the tower at Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday requesting to land because of a passenger causing a disturbance. "He's in a fight with our flight attendant right now, trying to open the emergency exit," the pilot said, ...