Michigan

Sarah Palin signs her autograph at Barnes and Nobles during the first stop of her book tour in Grand Rapids, Mich. on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009. (AP Photo/Adam Bird) Copyright 2009 AP News

Indiana gets $4 million grant for partnership with Ohio, Michigan to help laid-off autoworkers Indiana has won a $4 million federal grant to lead an effort with Michigan and Ohio to help laid-off autoworkers find jobs in the renewable-energy industry and related ...

FILE - In this Nov. 13, 2009 file photo, Michigan state Department of Human Services caseworker Sandy Satchel, foreground, works at the Family Independence Agency in Detroit. The number of newly laid-off workers seeking unemployment insurance was unchanged last week, remaining above ...

EAST American International 80, New Haven 65 Babson 76, Curry 58 Bentley 72, Merrimack 58 Bucknell 82, Delaware 66 Cabrini 68, Lebanon Valley 59 Clark U. 74, Rhode Island Coll. 72 College of N.J. 96, Berkeley College 50 Cornell 74, Massachusetts 61 ...

National Book Awards celebrate New York stories as honorees ponder the future of literature The 60th annual National Book Awards was a night to celebrate literature and to wonder about its future. Lifetime achievement winner Gore Vidal envisioned only pulp and dust ...

'Palin! Palin! Palin!' crowds chant as hundreds line up in Mich. to see Palin on book tour College students ditched class, employees skipped work and some huddled in the cold overnight just to make sure they get an orange wristband Wednesday that ...

Michigan jobless rate improves slightly to 15.1 percent; jobs were added in October Michigan's unemployment rate dipped slightly to 15.1 percent in October as total employment grew in the state for the first time since mid-2007, according to a state report released ...

FACT CHECK: A look at moving Guantanamo detainees to US prisons, possibly in Ill., Mich. As the Obama administration considers a plan to move Guantanamo Bay detainees to prisons on U.S. soil, including possible sites in Illinois and Michigan, proponents and critics ...

Federal appeals court to consider suit challenging Michigan's affirmative action ban A federal appeals court is about to consider a lawsuit challenging Michigan's ban against racial preferences in public university admissions and government hiring. Civil rights groups and University of Michigan students, ...

Michigan caseworkers worry about threats from people they are trying to help One frustrated client hurled a piece of concrete through the window of a welfare agency. Another threw her car keys at a welfare worker before being escorted away. At one ...