Ann Arbor News

A dog bit an Ann Arbor woman in the thigh, "puncturing her running pants and skin," while she was jogging Sunday on Barber Avenue, an Ann Arbor police report said.

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Ann Arbor voters came out in strong support of the incumbents on Election Day, reelecting Sabra Briere to a second term in the 1st Ward and Marcia Higgins to a sixth term in the 4th Ward.

The annual Sundance Film Festival is expanding to Nashville and seven other cities.

Sir Simon Rattle's new contract with the Berlin Philharmonic is just days old but already he's looking ahead _ to the orchestra's coast-to-coast tour U.S. tour starting this week, and to the role that classical music can and will play in 21st century society.

We've all got them -- those ideas that we know, just know, would make a fortune if we could get them to a store shelf.

WHAT IT IS: Essentially, no joke here, a real bible of all things smoked pig, an engrossing, affably rambling, borderline obsessive one-stop swine seminar, from the genealogy of Wilshire-cut bacon to an appreciation of the repulsive lardo , with two-dozen bacon-centric recipes you don't see every day .

New listings this week from Ann Arbor SPARK's online jobs board : A senior sales executive and a senior systems administrator with technology company Logic Solutions Inc.

Canton Township -- Police are looking for a woman who they say stole a purse in Ann Arbor and used the victim's credit cards in Canton Township and Westland.

Leigh Greden gives a speech at his last meeting as a member of the Ann Arbor City Council, apologizing to his colleagues for e-mails he sent that have caused controversy this year.

Ann Arbor firefighters this morning are investigating a blaze they termed suspicious in a vacant home on Miller Avenue.

Thursday, November 5, 2009 Borders Group Inc. says it will close 200 Waldenbooks stores and cut 1,500 jobs in January to make the chain smaller and more profitable.

Two masked men armed with handguns robbed a Bank of America branch on Ann Arbor's south side this morning, Ann Arbor police said.

Something unusual is happening in Northville. Tiny doors have appeared at 31 businesses around the city's downtown, and word is that a new type of merchant is setting up shop.

Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival is going on the road for one night next winter.

An elderly woman is dead after a two-vehicle crash early this morning. Howell police said preliminary investigation indicates that the driver of a Livingston Essential Transportation Service bus was traveling northbound on Highlander Way when it entered the intersection against the signal.

"Zingerman's Guide to Better Bacon: Stories of Pork Bellies, Hush Puppies, Rock 'N' Roll Music and Bacon Fat Mayonnaise" by Ari Weinzweig What it is: Essentially, no joke here, a real bible of all things smoked pig, an engrossing, affably rambling, borderline obsessive one-stop swine seminar, from the winding genealogy of Wilshire-cut British bacon ...

A worker at Integrated Sensing Systems' facility in Ypsilanti Township. An Ypsilanti-based maker of high-tech sensors is looking to hire 40-50 workers in the next 30 months as it undertakes an $18.5 million expansion and possible relocation to neighboring Ann Arbor.

Madison and Keiffer Hubbell, winners of the 2008 junior U.S. ice dance title, are switching coaches.

Authorities have identified three members of a family killed in a fire in their southwest Ann Arbor home and said today the preliminary cause of death is smoke inhalation.