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From the HERE City State DeskANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan goes into a noon kickoff Saturday against sixth-ranked Indiana at Michigan Stadium leaning on a freshman quarterback and a running game that finally came to life a week ago. Tommy Carr is expected to make his first start after coming…
From the HERE City National DeskBATON ROUGE, La. — Pro Football Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk, in his first season as head football coach at Southern University, has disclosed that he is living with Parkinson's disease. Faulk, 53, revealed the diagnosis as a guest on The Caring Neurologist, a podcast…
From the HERE City National DeskNEW YORK — JJ Watt is staying in the top chair. The former Houston Texans star signed a multiyear agreement Thursday that makes him the permanent lead analyst on his network's No. 1 NFL broadcast team, next to play-by-play voice Jim Nantz and sideline reporter…
From the HERE City National DeskCLEVELAND — Two right-handed relievers who spent part of 2026 in the Cleveland Guardians bullpen are heading to the open market. Minor league transaction records show Connor Brogdon and Carlos Hernández both opted for free agency this week, shortly after Tampa Bay eliminated Cleveland in…
From the HERE City National DeskKANSAS CITY, Mo. — Arizona men's basketball coach Tommy Lloyd believes the NCAA is content to let the fight over player eligibility stay messy, arguing the disorder helps the governing body lobby for a federal law. Speaking at Big 12 media days this week, Lloyd…
From the HERE City National DeskINDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — As a new college basketball season tips off, teams across the country are chasing a bigger prize: the NCAA's men's and women's tournaments will each grow from 68 teams to 76 in 2027, and nobody yet knows exactly which schools the extra…
From the HERE City National DeskSTORRS, Conn. — UConn opens the 2026-27 women's basketball season ranked second in the preseason poll, trying to turn the page on a national semifinal loss to South Carolina that ended an unbeaten run and left a bitter coaching exchange in its wake. The Huskies…
From the HERE City National DeskSOUTH BEND, Ind. — Notre Dame men's basketball opens a new season aiming to end a drought: the Fighting Irish have not played in the NCAA Tournament since 2022. Coach Micah Shrewsberry's program is coming off three losing seasons in a row. Last winter brought…
From the HERE City National DeskATLANTA, Ga. — Charles Barkley says that when he finally walks away from television, he will not use the exit to settle old scores, and he pointed to Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers as the example he does not plan to follow. Appearing on a satellite…
From the HERE City State Desk
LANSING, Mich. — After three years of holding steady, enrollment at Michigan's public universities slipped again this fall. The state's 15 public campuses counted 254,107 students, down 5,223, or 2%, from 259,330 a year earlier, according to preliminary figures from the Michigan Association of State Universities. Graduate programs took the…
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LANSING, Mich. — A small summer experiment in one-on-one tutoring produced measurable gains for some of Michigan's youngest students, according to an independent evaluation the state released Friday, and it arrives as schools prepare to compete for a much larger pot of tutoring money. The 2026 Summer High Impact Tutoring…
Events
NORTHVILLE, Mich. — Shoppers who want one more round of local produce and baked goods before winter have two Thursdays left. The Northville Farmers Market has set Thursday, Oct. 29, as the last market day of its 2026 season. That closing market is scheduled to run from 8 a.m. to…
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LANSING, Mich. — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is pressing state utility regulators to turn down Consumers Energy's plan to hand off its 13 hydroelectric dams to a private buyer, setting up a showdown at the state Public Service Commission early next month. Under the deal, Consumers would sell the…
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NAGQU, Tibet — A powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake rocked a remote, high-altitude stretch of China's Tibet region late Thursday, leaving 16 people dead and 76 others hurt, local officials said Friday. The quake hit Baqen County in the city of Nagqu at 10:33 p.m. local time. Officials with the Nagqu…
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WAINWRIGHT, Alberta — The fire that killed four Canadian soldiers and hurt 39 more at an Alberta army base last week started on an automatic grenade launcher range during routine training, Canada's top military police officer said Thursday. Brig. Gen. Vanessa Hanrahan, who leads Canada's military police as Provost Marshal,…
From the HERE City State Desk
LANSING, Mich. — A dozen fire departments and townships across the Upper Peninsula and northern Michigan are getting more than $2.1 million in federal money for breathing gear, trucks, hoses and training. Slotkin and Peters, who represent Michigan in the U.S. Senate, shared the news Thursday. The dollars flow through…
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WASHINGTON — New Hampshire can turn away student IDs as proof of identity at the polls in next month's midterm election after the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday set aside a lower-court order in the state's voting dispute. In a short unsigned order, the justices put on hold a ruling…
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PHOENIX — Outside groups have poured roughly $18.8 million into the general election fight for Arizona's 1st Congressional District, one of the state's two most competitive House seats, with most of it aimed at helping Republican Jay Feely. Feely, a former Arizona Cardinals kicker and a longtime friend of President…
From the HERE City State Desk
LANSING, Mich. — With federal Medicaid work requirements set to start Jan. 1, Michigan has rolled out an online screener to help Healthy Michigan Plan members figure out where they stand. The state health department, MDHHS, said the Michigan Work and Exemptions Screening Tool, called MI WEST, walks users through…
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LYON, France — Health officials in France have confirmed the first known human infection with Shamonda, a virus that until this year had only been documented in animals, mainly cattle. The patient had a badly weakened immune system and was being treated for a serious illness at the Hospices Civils…
From the HERE City National Desk
KINSHASA, Congo — The Ebola outbreak centered in Congo keeps widening, with confirmed cases now above 9,600 and the disease reaching an eighth Congolese province as well as a new country, Nigeria. World Health Organization figures through Oct. 19 count 9,637 confirmed cases and 4,646 confirmed deaths since the outbreak…
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