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Alex Sugiura says he understands why people ask. "I have always thought I've had a particularly strange face," he explains. And the query, he says, gives him a chance to really talk about what it means to be mixed-race in America.

State officials announced the results from the 2012 Michigan Merit Exam today. They say the results for Michigan high school students are…

Over the last 15 years, the South African writer Lauren Beukes has been a journalist, a screenwriter, a documentarian — and most recently, a novelist. Her new book is called The Shining Girls, a summer thriller about a time-traveling serial killer and the victim who escapes to hunt him down.

Customers were less satisfied with some Detroit car brands this year, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index.Satisfaction declined from…

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has released its annual findings on how Americans use their cell phones. Other than talking on the phone (it was…

Mayor Dave Bing says the city of Detroit will demolish the vacant Brewster-Douglass housing projects.The famous—or in more recent years, infamous—Brewster…

When Meg Lukens Noonan first stumbled across the expensive coat, her untutored eye saw nothing particularly special. In her new book, The Coat Route, Noonan explores how and why craftsmen spend months creating such luxuries. She also makes an appeal for why the art of tailoring should be preserved.

Unemployment in Michigan rose one-tenth of a percentage point in June to 8.6 percent, when seasonally adjusted.The Michigan Department of Technology,…

With thousands of oil-related jobs in western North Dakota, some of the region's new workers are putting down roots. But many more commute from states where jobs are hard to come by — and that can mean being separated from spouses and children for weeks at a time.

Hydraulic fracturing – or fracking – is a method of drilling for natural gas. Drillers use fracking to get to the gas that’s trapped in tight shale rock…