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A government-run wildlife rehabilitation center isn’t the only place people are taking birds and animals coated with oil from a spill in the Kalamazoo River. Workers at the private Circle D Wildlife Refuge in Kalamazoo County say Friday they’ve received 15 geese and other birds this week. The birds have come from Calhoun County, where [...]

Officials have located the wreckage of a small medical plane that crashed into Lake Michigan a week ago. Four people remain missing, but Mason County Emergency Management Coordinator Liz Reimink said Friday “there is a possibility of victims within the area of the wreckage.” She says the Michigan State Police Underwater Recovery Unit found the [...]

Calhoun County health officials Friday were evacuating dozens of additional homes in the area surrounding the big oil spill Friday, due to concerns over air quality in the area south of Battle Creek.  In addition, about one hundred families along the contaminated Kalamazoo River have been asked to drink bottled water. Estimates of the amount of [...]

Calhoun County health officials Friday were evacuating dozens of additional homes in the area surrounding the big oil spill Friday, due to concerns over air quality in the area south of Battle Creek.  In addition, about one hundred families along the contaminated Kalamazoo River have been asked to drink bottled water. Estimates of the amount of [...]

Firefighters planned an aggressive air attack at first light Friday against a fast-moving wildfire that exploded in northern Los Angeles County, forcing hundreds of evacuations and burning at least three structures. High winds and dry brush aided the blaze that’s already consumed nearly 6,000 acres, more than seven square miles, reports CBS News correspondent Hattie [...]

Detroit Police say they had to use lethal force in response to a call about a kidnapping in progress overnight. Police said they stopped a suspect vehicle, around 1:45 a.m. Friday, along Wagner Street, between Cecil and Clipper, when the driver, described as a man in his 20′s, pointed an automatic weapon at officers. That man was [...]

ROB SANFORD I had hoped somehow the Tigers other players would respond to the injury adversity and pick up their performance. But it hasn’t happened and now it looks like barring a miracle, the Tigs are in danger of falling by the wayside. In a recent conversation with  Dan Dickerson, I told him I was [...]

The mother of two young men charged in Sunday’s fatal shooting outside a Kmart in Ypsilanti Township has now been charged in the case. Tina Crockett is in the Washtenaw County Jail on on $300 bond. Her sons, 20-year-old Michael Crockett and 16-year-old Charles Pippens, are each jailed on charges including open murder in the death [...]

WWJ Technology Editor Matt Roush.

Michigan State troopers have ratified a three-year contract with the state that includes structural changes in health care and wage increases. The State of Michigan said in a release Thursday that 81 percent of the Michigan State Police Troopers Association voted to approve the agreement that ends December 2011. Troopers will not receive a wage [...]