Matt Miller

One part gin, one part green Chartreuse, one part maraschino liqueur, one part freshly squeezed lime juice. Shake with ice. Strain into a coupe glass. Garnish with a brandied cherry.

My daughter's reaction to the inches-thick layer of ice covering our street: "At least the potholes are filled."

Bethany Christian said the state settled a discrimination lawsuit. The state said it didn’t. Bethany Christian Services has asked a judge to enforce a settlement with the state. The state says there never was a settlement.

Bethany Christian Services believed it had settled its religious discrimination suit against the state, winning mandatory religious liberty training for Office of Global Michigan managers, $300,000 in lawyer fees and more.

The state said there was no settlement.

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Imprisoned in 1976 under a law courts now reject, Michigan man makes a bid for freedom Edwin Langston didn’t fire the bullet that killed Arretta Lou Ingrham, but he has spent the last 49 years in jail for her murder.

Imprisoned in 1976 under a law courts now reject, Michigan man makes a bid for freedom

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I've got sweet hazy memories of Northern Light's public search engine.

Customer sues Michigan bed and breakfast, alleging retaliation for one-star review The owner of Henderson Castle denied any retaliation but said the business does target "fake" reviews.

Customer sues Michigan bed and breakfast, alleging retaliation for one-star review.

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I realized thinking about this that the number of times I’ve seen a band often doesn’t have a lot to do with how much I like them. Like how did I end up seeing the Grateful Dead twice?

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen multiple times

The Pogues
Catherine Irwin
Shonen Knife
Parliament-Funkadelic
The Walkmen

Spelling bee?

FBI investigating Michigan trader accused of using ‘Ponzi scheme’ to hide clients’ losses Contrary to Brian Mitchell’s representations, he was not a successful trader, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said in a complaint.

FBI investigating Michigan trader accused of using ‘Ponzi scheme’ to hide clients’ losses

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Troubled Michigan nursing homes sold off for $10 plus debts Mission Point Health Care owed nearly $5 million in overdue rent by the time eight of the troubled Michigan nursing home chain’s facilities were taken over by a court-appointed receiver.

Troubled Michigan nursing homes sold off for $10 plus debts

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Michigan child abuse probes see 18% drop since 2017. Welfare workers are concerned

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They should do Olivier.

In the mid-2000s, the American food section at KaDeWe in Berlin was roughly a third marshmallow fluff products.

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

"Just after Christmas, on his birthday, JJ found his mom draped over her bed, lifeless. An autopsy would later confirm what she had feared: Preeclampsia killed her at 20 weeks pregnant."

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One of the fastest growing demographics at Michigan colleges is high school students Dual enrollment programs, which allow high school students to take college classes for free, grew by nearly 16 percent between 2022-23 and 2023-24.

Dual-enrolled high school students now make up 16 percent of the enrollment at Ferris State University and 67 percent at Alpena Community College.

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“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” is a moving memorial to those who died but it continues to be a wildly unsuccessful strip club song.

Catherine Irwin.

‘We’ll end profit-motivated policing’: New proposal seeks to change the way Michigan courts are funded The key impact a plan to change the way Michigan pays for its local courts would be to “end profit-motivated policing” and a profit-motivated court system, said Tom Boyd, Michigan’s state court admini...

A plan to decouple court fines from court funding in Michigan.

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The Edmund Fitzgerald became legend when she sank 50 years ago, but she was always an icon. 🚢

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A Michigan elected official is married to a neo-Nazi. Some constituents have a problem with that. Meghyn Booth says she didn’t know she was married to a neo-Nazi influencer, not exactly.

A Michigan elected official is married to a neo-Nazi influencer. Some of her constituents have a problem with that.

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Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

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NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

In 2023, a Detroit child, DJ, died from an asthma attack.

He grew up near industry. He died during a summer when wildfire smoke hung over Michigan.

He and others affected by pollution are among those honored in the DIA's annual Dia de Muertos ofrendas exhibit.

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Penn rejects White House proposal for special funding treatment With the decision, Penn becomes the third university to decline the offer.

Penn joins MIT and Brown in saying “no” to Trump extortion move.

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

Here is the students' @idsnews.bsky.social report out of Indiana University, where the student media director was fired today. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

On-air personality sues 9 and 10 News alleging racial discrimination A former on-air personality for 9 and 10 News has sued the Cadillac news outlet’s parent company, alleging that, as a Black woman, she was “subjected to unfair heightened scrutiny, unattainable job ex...

On-air personality sues 9 and 10 News alleging racial discrimination

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22-year-old made detailed plans for a mass shooting. Police stopped him just in time. Mack Davis wanted to shoot people, he wrote in a manifesto taken by police. Muslims and Jews. Schoolchildren and supermarket shoppers. Gays and lesbians. Police stopped him before he got the chance.

22-year-old made detailed plans for a mass shooting. Police stopped him just in time.

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Michigan church attack was one of the deadliest at a U.S. house of worship There have been more than 375 fatal attacks at U.S. houses of worship over the past 25 years. The Sept. 28 attack at a Church of Latter-Day Saints in Grand Blanc was one of the deadliest.

Michigan church attack was one of the deadliest at a U.S. house of worship

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