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Every American city has its miserable parts.Forbes Magazine says there are just more miserable parts to Detroit and Flint than other U.S. cities.Complete…

One of the world's most treasured foods comes from an unlikely source — a sturgeon farm on a kibbutz in northern Israel. The prized sturgeon eggs — or osetra caviar, if you must — fetches a hefty price and has a top-chef following.

The Tea Party flexed its muscle. Michigan Public Radio Network's Rick Pluta and Laura Weber report, "A defiant effort to put a tea party candidate for…

If the magazine racks at the grocery story are any indication, we love lists.Lists of the "top" vacation spots - lists of the "top" TV shows - and lists…

In softcover fiction, Mark Helprin sets a romance against the backdrop of midcentury New York, and Ian Frazier presents the journals of a mother who swears an extremely blue streak. In softcover nonfiction, Yael Kohen collects an oral history of women in comedy, and Jon Ronson gathers some funny stories of his own.

MI6 may be the world's most legendary secret service, but fiction and film can't uncover its actual history. For that, you need BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera and his new book, The Art of Betrayal: The Secret History of MI6.

Michigan’s top budget official is praising Congress for averting the so-called “fiscal cliff.”Budget Director John Nixon said sweeping tax increases and…

This week brings mystery writer P.D. James' homage to Jane Austen, a comic novel from Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel, a mountain climbing disaster story from Jim Davidson and Kevin Vaughan, and Mimi Alford's tale of her affair with President John F. Kennedy.

"Our hearts are broken," President Obama told the nation today as the awful news emerged. Police say they found 18 children and six adults dead at the scene. Two other children died later. The gunman's body was also found at the school.

< If you live up here ----- Rep. Dan Benishek (R) is the guy who speaks for you in Washington D.C. (along with your two Senators, of course).The…