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REDMOND, Wash. (AP) -- Microsoft thinks it has the one....

CANNES, France (AP) -- La dolce vita came to Cannes on Tuesday, thanks to a pair of films set in Italy exploring lives of affluent ennui....

MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- Emergency crews searched the broken remnants of an Oklahoma City suburb Tuesday for survivors of a massive tornado that flattened homes and demolished an elementary school. At least 24 people were killed, including at least nine children, and those numbers were expected to climb....

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A corporate lawyer for concert giant AEG Live LLC has revised his testimony and now says the tour director of Michael Jackson's ill-fated "This Is It" concerts had a signed contract....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama pledged urgent government help for Oklahoma Tuesday in the wake of "one of the most destructive" storms in the nation's history....

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's state TV says overseers of next month's presidential election have rejected a top aide of outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and a former president who revived hopes of reformers....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Apple's CEO is disputing assertions by a Senate panel that the company avoids billions of dollars in U.S. taxes by shifting profits to foreign affiliates....

JERUSALEM (AP) -- Israeli and Syrian troops exchanged fire across their tense cease-fire line in the Golan Heights on Tuesday, prompting an Israeli threat that Syria's leader will "bear the consequences" of further escalation and raising new concerns that the civil war there could explode into a region-wide conflict....

CANNES, France (AP) -- A phrase you will hear often at Cannes is: "Let me run the numbers."...

NEW YORK (AP) -- ESPN is cutting its workforce, the latest Disney division to reduce staff....

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The man who led the Internal Revenue Service when it was giving extra scrutiny to tea party and other conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status told Congress on Tuesday that he knew little about what was happening while he was still commissioner....

A 20-year-old man in a one-car accident at Old US-12 and M-52 Monday evening was airlifted to University of Michigan Hospital, Chelsea Update reported.

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FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) -- The government will accept an Army private's guilty plea to a lesser version of one of the 22 counts he faces for sending more than 700,000 classified U.S. documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, a military prosecutor said during a pretrial hearing Tuesday....

The Ypsilanti Symphony Orchestra and Ypsilanti High School Marching Band will present Ypsi Pops at Riverside Park on Saturday.

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VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Is Pope Francis an exorcist?...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- One Pistorius brother is free of charges - acquitted Tuesday of culpable homicide in the death of a woman in a road accident. The famous younger brother, Olympian double-amputee Oscar Pistorius, still must face his day in court for shooting and killing his girlfriend....

Greg Vaclavek of Native Plant Nurseries

Photo courtesy of Cobblestone Farm Market

“Sustainable farms are to today's headlong rush toward global destruction what the monasteries were to the Dark Ages: places to preserve human skills and crafts until some semblance of common sense and common purpose returns to the public mind.” - Gene Logsdon

For more than 40 years only the ghosts of farmers have resided at Cobblestone Farm, the living history museum on Packard that began as the 183 acre Ticknor Farm in 1835. Purchased by the city of Ann Arbor in 1972 and restored with gardens and farm animals, the Cobblestone Farm property has long been used as an educational and event space.

Continue reading A neighborhood market with a mission - Cobblestone Farm Market starts May 21...

Former Ann Arbor City Administrator Roger Fraser is one of five finalists competing for the Kalamazoo city manager position, MLive reported.

Interviews with Fraser and other candidates were scheduled to start at noon Tuesday. Fraser is touting his experience with budget struggles in Ann Arbor as he makes his case for why he's the best person to lead Kalamazoo city government through a time of transition and downsizing.

Continue reading Former Ann Arbor administrator Roger Fraser seeks city manager position in Kalamazoo...

PARIS (AP) -- Some 1,500 visitors were cleared out of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris after a man put a letter on the altar of the 850-year-old monument Tuesday, pulled out a gun and shot himself in the head....

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The suspended Eastern Michigan University basketball player accused of choking his girlfriend had his preliminary hearing adjourned Tuesday in 14A-1 District Court because the 19-year-old woman was too ill to appear.

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