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NEW YORK (AP) -- Pat Conroy fans will finally get the real story about his father, the man who inspired the novel "The Great Santini."...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Barbara Walters said Monday that retirement from her epochal television career is near, but it's not happening right away....

NEW YORK (AP) -- Barbara Walters said Monday that retirement from her epochal television career is near, but it's not happening right away....

A SAES and Mole tag from William Street looking south down the Ann Arbor Railroad tracks.

Ryan Stanton | AnnArbor.com

A 16-year-old Pioneer High School student admitted in court Monday that he was responsible for spray-painting his moniker "Mole" at 11 sites throughout Ann Arbor.

Continue reading Ann Arbor teen admits responsibility in 11 graffiti-related counts...

LONDON (AP) -- J.J. Abrams is master of one universe - and he's about to try conquering another....

It might be a bit of a drive to Manchester, but it's totally worth it when meat and good music are involved, right? So fill up the gas tank and head to the Manchester Annual Ribs & Blues event at Carr Park. It's a beautiful drive, so just enjoy it.

Continue reading Manchester Ribs & Blues fest to offer 'hot BBQ, cool blues and cold beer'...

For even those most accustomed to the frenzy of celebrity, the Cannes Film Festival can be a disorienting experience....

Company officials have announced that business operations at Pall Life Sciences at 600 S. Wagner Rd. in Scio Township will cease this summer.

Melanie Maxwell | AnnArbor.com file photo

The Pall Corporation announced Monday it will close its Ann Arbor business operations this summer.

Continue reading Pall Corporation announces it will close Ann Arbor business operations this summer ...

Ypsilanti resident Bob Krzewinski was riding his bicycle on Forest Avenue in 2006, when he was struck from behind by a hit-and-run motorist who briefly slowed down and then quickly left the scene.

"I was out of work for five months," said Krzewinksi, who also is a member of Ypsilanti's Non-Motorized Advisory Committee. "I was going east on Forest about a block from where I live and I was following all traffic regulations, when a car hit me and gave me some blunt force trauma to my arm. I only had 5 percent usage of my arm for some time. ... Thank God for physical therapists."

Continue reading Ypsilanti's Bike-Bus-Walk Week to encourage alternative transportation...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- In a high-flying, perfectly pitched first, an astronaut on the International Space Station is bowing out of orbit with a musical video: his own custom version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity."...

There have been more than 7,000 votes cast this spring for the six AnnArbor.com Team of the Week polls. But all good things must come to an end.

Continue reading Vote for final AnnArbor.com Team of the Week of the spring...

A man was sent to the hospital after fighting with another man he believed tried to steal his laptop during a party in Ann Arbor early Sunday morning.

Continue reading Ann Arbor man injured in fight with man who tried to steal his laptop...

RAIWIND, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan's presumptive new prime minister said Monday that Islamabad has "good relations" with the United States, but called the CIA's drone campaign in the country's tribal region a challenge to national sovereignty....

Garnering 27,000 of the approximately 50,000 online votes cast, Grand Rapids has been crowned Beer City USA for 2013, according to a post on AnnArbor.com's sister site, MLive. Ann Arbor claimed the 4th spot on the annual poll, behind Kalamazoo and Asheville, NC.

Beer fans in Grand Rapids organized a strong push to win this designator this year, with a Facebook page, beer coasters, even a YouTube video with a Beer City theme song by the Jukejoint Handmedowns:

Continue reading The votes are in: Grand Rapids voted Beer City USA in a landslide...