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Lykendra Johnson scored 21 points and Aisha Jefferson added 12 to lead No. Michigan State to a 74-51 win over Western Michigan on Sunday. Michigan State's 6-foot-9 center Allyssa DeHaan added seven points, 11 rebounds and five blocks for the...

Michigan's unemployment rate dipped slightly to 15.1 percent in October...But it likely will still be the highest rate in the nation, depending on other state reports expected over the next few days. Michigan has had at least a share of...

A federal appeals court is about to consider a lawsuit challenging Michigan�s ban against racial preferences in public university admissions and government hiring. Civil rights groups and University of Michigan students, faculty and applicants say the 2006 ballot measure approved...

Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm wants to consolidate more state government departments. Granholm on Tuesday announced plans to merge the Department of Management and Budget with the Department of Information Technology. The move would form a single department to further integrate...

The technical shutdown, which most in Michigan slept through, had no practical effect, and state employees returned to work as usual on Thursday, officials in Lansing said. But the impasse over cuts to nearly everything, even as the state’s new...

The sense of uncertainty hanging over the Michigan Capitol is leaving those with a stake in how the state budget turns out very nervous. The House and Senate are trying to erase a projected $2.8 billion deficit in a budget...

Michigan's governor has signed legislation requiring farm animals confined in cages to have enough room to turn around and fully extend their limbs. The bill signed Monday makes Michigan the second state to ban so-called battery cages for egg-laying chickens,...

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Gov. Jennifer Granholm is expected to soon sign legislation requiring that farm animals confined in small spaces have enough room to fully extend their limbs and making Michigan the seventh state to ban certain cages and crates. The bill is...