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Washington -- Michigan students, middle class families and small businesses could get a boost under President Barack Obama 's $3.8 trillion federal budget unveiled Monday.

Washington -- Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm called on Washington lawmakers to focus on job creation during a Sunday morning talk show appearance."Jobs are the alpha and the omega," Granholm said during a "Face the Nation" panel discussion on CBS.

WASHINGTON - Michigan is expected to receive $40 million in stimulus funds to develop high-speed rail corridors linking Detroit and Chicago.

WASHINGTON - Michigan's Democratic senators split Tuesday over a failed Senate proposal to create an independent commission to rein in the federal deficit.

Tennessee coach Derek Dooley has added 11-year NFL assistant Charlie Baggett to his Volunteers staff where he will be assistant head coach and wide receivers coach.

There's a new kind of punctuation in town and it wants sarcasm for its own. Share Landlord sues tenant after she posts comments about mold in her apartment.

The number of Michiganders licensed to carry concealed weapons has reached 220,422 -- nearly 10 years after the state liberalized its permit law and following a record number of CCW applicants in the 12 months from July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2009.

Wednesday, January 06, 2010 Law - "Some foes of health-care bill hope courts will stop legislation" The Washington Post had a long story Sunday , reported by Ben Pershing, that began: Opponents of the health-care reform bill are not giving up the fight, and some think their last, best hope to halt the legislation lies not in the U.S. Capitol but in ...

The new senior center, Washington Life Center, is the former Washington Elementary School in Marine City.

A number of retirements and hires altered the face of Romeo Community Schools' central administrative staff during 2009.

Published at PO Box 96 124 W. St. Clair Romeo, MI 48065. Phone: 752-3524 Fax: 752-0548 Updated Wednesday, December 30, 2009 at 3 PM EST RIBBONS AND ROUNDABOUTS.

Noticeably missing from Gov. Jennifer Granholm's assessment of what Michigan needs to do in 2010 was any mention of spending reform or a restructuring of government.

WASHINGTON -- Michigan's congressional delegation did slightly better for the state during the just-completed budget season than a year earlier, a Free Press analysis shows.

An MRI taken last month found no trace of the tumor once near the cerebellum of Madison Kegler, 3, of Washington, Mich.

This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Union editor When this school year comes to a close, it will be the end of Washington Elementary as we know it.

WASHINGTON - Michigan's Bart Stupak, the Democratic congressman who set off a firestorm of controversy with an amendment restricting abortion coverage in the health care reform legislation, says he doesn't believe his proposal will survive in the Senate.

Residents who want to buy a gift for a less-fortunate individual through the Sharing Tree program can remove a tag from one of the 19 participating church's "sharing tree" and purchase the tag's requested item.

Published at PO Box 96 124 W. St. Clair Romeo, MI 48065. Phone: 752-3524 Fax: 752-0548 Updated Wednesday, December 02, 2009 at 3 PM EST GOODFELLOWS, GOOD CAUSE.

Parents may be shocked to learn much of their children's time in home-based day cares is spent in front of the tube.

"The risk of this economic crisis is that people stay isolated, hunkered down and afraid," Collins says.