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When a recipe for Ebinger's Blackout Cake surfaced long after the bakery's demise, Katie Workman knew it was just the thing to make her grandfather. Little did she know the trial that was yet to come.

Utility crews from Ohio and Indiana are helping crews restore electricity in Michigan today. Consumers Energy says around 70,000 homes and businesses in…

Writer Barbara Kingsolver is fascinated by the tension inherent in living on the border between two cultures. Her latest novel, The Lacuna, tells the story of a young man born of a Mexican mother and an American father.

Today on Stateside:* Lon Johnson, chair of the Michigan Democratic Party, is thinking about a job-change* Consumers are turning to social media as a way…

Cindy Garcia methodically sorts and folds #TeamGarcia fundraiser T-shirts in her Lincoln Park living room. The TV is on, the dog is barking, and her…

Two Democratic state lawmakers are preparing legislation that would restore unemployment benefits cuts recently signed into law by Governor Rick Snyder.…

Grand Rapids mayor George Heartwell is calling on Governor Rick Snyder to place a temporary ban on hydraulic fracturing in the state.Heartwell made his…

Forget food aid, cows and job training. An unprecedented 12-year experiment in Kenya tests the power of cash.

A water dilemma is brewing in Wisconsin.The city of Waukesha (near Milwaukee) is asking for permission to tap into Lake Michigan for drinking water — to…

"Even the most euphemistic terms we have for where the toilet is, can sometimes not feel quite euphemistic enough."That's what University of Michigan…