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Author Lucy Lethbridge explores the history of British servants through their diaries, letters and memoirs. She says, "What I found particularly fascinating was how ... butlers were so butlery"; the old caricature of the clever manservant and the silly master is one "butlers have appeared to play to the hilt."

Walter Cronkite anchored the CBS News coverage during the first hours after bullets hit President Kennedy in Dallas 50 years ago Friday.

Senator Debbie Stabenow is asking Congress to pass a new farm bill.Stabenow spoke to the Michigan Agri-Business Association at its annual conference in…

For 50 years, Boston has been busing kids to force desegregation. Audie Cornish, who was part of the program as a kid, travels back to Boston to check on its effectiveness all these years later.

By now coverage of last week’s Detroit area flooding has receded. For now, many of us have temporarily forgotten about how bad the potholes were last…

The night before last, I drove to Suttons Bay in Leelanau County, just a few miles north of the Sleeping Bear Dunes.I went there to get inspired, and I…

With all the heat and humidity we've been having, ice sounds pretty good right about now.Sarah Aciego is going a long way for some ice this summer: she’s…

Though order was restored to the financial markets, tough times continue for millions who are unemployed and struggling to hang on to homes and retirement savings. It sure feels like a recession, but it's not.

Though order was restored to the financial markets, tough times continue for millions who are unemployed and struggling to hang on to homes and retirement savings. It sure feels like a recession, but it's not.

New research finds that fish in the Great Lakes are contaminated with a chemical used in aircraft hydraulic fluids.Researcher Amila DeSilva works for…