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Government agencies are seeking broad new authority to ramp up killings and removals of gray wolves in the Northern Rockies and Great Lakes, despite two recent court actions that restored the animal’s endangered status in every state except Alaska and Minnesota. Various proposals would gas pups in their dens, surgically sterilize adult wolves and allow [...]

General Motors Co.’s subsidiary Adam Opel GmbH says it has signed-up the winner of the European Song Contest as its new brand image. Opel spokesman Christof Birringer said Sunday singer Lena Meyer-Landrut, known as “Lena”, was introduced as the new face for the company’s cars during a surprise concert for some 20,000 people at Opel’s [...]

Detroit police are investigating one of their own. Officials say a veteran officer was stopped in Roseville after she was accused to have been involved in a hit-and-run incident in Detroit. The officer – who was been on the force since 2001 – was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of [...]

A riverboat loaded with passengers and fuel drums caught fire and capsized in southern Congo, and 200 people were feared dead, a survivor said Sunday. A local official confirmed the boat had tipped but said the passenger manifest apparently vanished in the fire. It would be the deadliest boat accident in the Central African nation [...]

A big Michigan Auto Show in October?  It’s been going on for 47 years and it’s run by students!

The all-clear has been given for a pair of buildings at Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Harrison Township following an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease. Following an extensive scrub-down, about 180 employees will return to work in those buildings September 13th. At one point, as many as 40 people working in  the buildings fell ill [...]

As many celebrate this Labor Day weekend, some Waterford Township Police officers are getting word of coming layoffs.  Township Supervisor Carl Solden says they are forced to lay off 23 police officers and demote 12 others because of a huge 4.1 million dollar drop in property tax revenue. “It’s just like your own home budget. [...]

Clarkston’s Police force is no more as of this weekend. The department was eliminated by budget cuts and turned over their responsiblities as of 11:00 p.m. Friday to the Oakland County Sheriff’s Department, working from their Independence township substation. Residents are expected to see little change in coverage, with the Sheriff’s Department already handling 911 [...]

A couple who worked at one of the two Iowa egg farms faulted in the recent massive recall say they blew the whistle on unsanitary conditions at one plant — and no one listened. Rather, Robert Arnold said on “The Early Show on Saturday Morning,” he and his wife, Deanna, were told the practices and [...]

Craigslist appears to have surrendered in a legal fight over erotic ads posted on its website, shutting down its adult services section Saturday and replacing it with a black bar that simply says “censored.” The move comes just over a week after a group of state attorneys general said there weren’t enough protections against blocking [...]