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Update 2:58 p.m.We caught up with several folks waiting in line to get tickets to President Barack Obama's speech tomorrow. We asked them if there was…

The arguments for and against building a new bridge to Canada at Detroit, for the most part, have been pretty one-sided. The owners of the Ambassador…

Since 1955, the King's name had been among the 1,000 most popular baby names each year. No longer. And for the second year in a row, Twillight's Jacob and Isabella rule as No. 1s.

An Oklahoma Senate bill that prohibits "the manufacture or sale of food or products which use aborted human fetuses" has some folks scratching their heads, and wondering if it's real.

We were curious in the newsroom this morning, how did we come to celebrate Cinco de Mayo? A little digging gave me the answer..."I know I owe you money,…

Hundreds of flights in and out of Michigan airports have been canceled due to the winter weather, according to the Associated Press.The AP reports:The…

The rare daytime astronomical event, in which Venus can be seen as a tiny black dot crossing the sun, won't happen again until 2117. Andrea Wulf, author of Chasing Venus, explains how 18th-century astronomers used the event to calculate the distance between the Earth and the sun.

Lawyer turned author Robert Rotenberg takes great pains to re-create the relatively calm atmosphere of Canadian courtrooms in his suspense novels. But not all of his characters play by the rules. "Well, they are murder mysteries," he says.

Author Hortense Calisher once called the short story "an apocalypse in a teacup." Critic Jane Ciabattari presents her favorite mini-apocalypses of 2012, from veteran authors like Sherman Alexie to newcomer Claire Vaye Watkins, who combines a unique voice and a shadowed family history in her debut collection.

The University of Michigan’s selection of Governor Rick Snyder as its Spring commencement speaker has sparked a protest.U-of-M Senior Rick Durance, a…