March Madness has mostly been March Predictable in the women’s NCAA Tournament so far. For the first time since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1994, no team seeded 11 or worse advanced to the second round. The only two double-digit seeds still standing in the round of 32 were a pair ...

LANSING — A new House bill could help reduce traffic noise from Michigan highways. The proposal from Rep. Ron Robinson, R-Utica, would provide state money for noise abatement projects, the first boost in over 17 years. Noise abatement measures used in the past are adding walls and earthen ...

LANSING — In 1892, a woman left her young child asleep in a wagon while she picked blackberries close by in small-town Fergus, Saginaw County. She returned a short time later to a horrific scene: Her child was gone and a pool of blood lay in its place. That story, first reported by the ...

LANSING — House Democrats have reintroduced legislation to alter the state’s jury system by centralizing its management. The proposed changes also would allow people previously convicted of felonies to serve on juries. “The intent is to try to create an opportunity for folks to get a ...

The horror of the Joplin tornado is the subject of a new documentary film, released nearly 14 years after the twister struck Missouri with cataclysmic force, ripping into a hospital, destroying neighborhoods and killing around 160. “You see pictures of World War II, the devastation and all ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads a powerful network blamed for bloody attacks against Afghanistan’s former Western-backed government, officials in Kabul said Sunday. Sirajuddin Haqqani, ...