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Gov. Jennifer Granholm warned Tuesday of a possible 20 percent cut in state spending next year, a draconian step after billions in cuts since 2003 already have dented police and fire services, pushed schools toward insolvency and reduced oversight of prison inmates.

In this Oct. 29, 2009, file photo House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Md. speaks during a news conference about health care on Capitol Hill in Washington.

A Michigan man charged with killing an abortion protester and a business owner told police he had guns loaded in his truck when he took two nieces and a friend to school just before the shooting spree.

A former Kalamazoo man who was listed as one of Michigan's most wanted sex offenders turned himself into authorities Tuesday and was arrested.

A state audit says Michigan didn't complete about 10 percent of routine bridge inspections on time between 2006 and 2008.

A panel at the University of Michigan Law School is probing the future of U.S. security as the clock ticks down for the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

The wife of a Michigan soldier stationed at Ford Hood, Texas, says he was one of 31 people wounded during a rampage that left 12 people dead.

LANSING - The Michigan House voted today to tap federal stimulus money set aside for next year to soften a cut in school funding now, but it's unlikely the move is going to win the support of the state Senate.

WASHINGTON - Help is on the way for tens of thousands of Michiganders and their families who have exhausted their unemployment benefits or would have by year's end.

About 55 laid-off state troopers who expected to be recalled now that the state budget is in place will stay off the job a little longer.

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Aquinas College officials sent a letter to students Wednesday about the loss of the Michigan Promise Scholarship Grant.

The Michigan Security Network is holding its first leadership conference this week.

Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Wednesday named Andy Levin as the state's chief workforce officer, a position from which he will help oversee efforts to streamline state government service and employment levels.

Ohio voters have approved the opening of casinos in Toledo and three other cities, leaving officials and gambling interests in neighboring Indiana and Michigan worried that millions of dollars in gambling revenues - and taxes - are at risk.

Washington -- The Senate voted overwhelmingly today to move forward on additional unemployment benefits, but it is unlikely to wrap up the high-stakes issue for Michigan's jobless workers before Thursday.

After Chris Crane won $42 million in the Mega Millions lottery, his kids were thrilled.

Carroll Fisher does not regularly use marijuana. But he'd like to. The retired 67-year-old Niles factory worker has never smoked a joint - except for trying one in his 20s - until July.

Multiple explosions rocked a Michigan welding supply plant after an acetylene tank burst into flames on Monday, sending an employee to the hospital and prompting many homes and businesses to evacuate, authorities said.

State health officials said Monday that there are fewer than 1 million doses of H1N1 vaccine allocated to Michigan right now, but there are 5 million people -- about half of those in the state -- who are high-risk individuals in need of the vaccine.