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Statewide math and reading scores are up, while science and social studies scores show a slight dip, according to MEAP test results released today.

The Detroit Pistons played at Cobo Arena from 1961 until the 1977-78 season ended, before moving to a temporary home at the Pontiac Silverdome and finally to the Palace of Auburn Hills. Is it time to come back home?

If they play like this every game the rest of the way, the Wings will not only make the playoffs, but be a force when they get there. Of course, that's a big "if" these days.

Brace yourselves for a weekend shutdown of I-96 in Detroit and new roadwork on I-75 and I-275 in Monroe County.

Hundreds of law enforcement officers from throughout the state are in Canton today for the funeral of slain Jackson Township Officer James Bonneau.

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick refused to discuss a court order Thursday for her to appear before a federal grand jury but said that neither she nor a member of her staff who was also called to testify is a target of the investigation.

Bob Lutz is not an adviser. He's 78, tired of the 4:30 a.m. alarm clock and in a role at General Motors as vice chairman in which he's not running anything. "My work is done here," he said in an interview with the Free Press after announcing plans last week to retire May 1.

Political consultant Sam Riddle had some harsh words for his former boss' attorney last night on Twitter.

Korean battery maker LG Chem and its U.S. subsidiary Compact Power today confirmed their plans to build a $303-million plant to make lithium-ion battery cells for electric vehicles, including the Chevrolet Volt.

At the end of the 1965-66 National Basketball Association season, the Detroit Pistons and the New York Knicks faced off on a coin toss for the No. 1 draft pick. The Knicks won and picked University of Michigan star Cazzie Russell. The Pistons got Dave Bing.

"For all the good things that happened to me in Detroit, I really thank the organization a lot."

Today's exhibition game between the Tigers and Phillies at Joker Marchant Stadium in Lakeland, Fla., has been canceled due to rain.

NEW YORK — A settlement that could pay up to $657.5 million to more than 10,000 Ground Zero rescue and recovery workers sickened by dust from the destroyed World Trade Center goes before a judge today, and he has said he favored a settlement but planned to analyze it carefully to make sure it was fair. Sara Kugler contributed to this report.

U-M has not won more than one game in a single Big Ten tournament since the first year, 1998, when the Wolverines won the tournament title.

In the two years the Spartans won the Big Ten tournament, they advanced to the Final Four (1999) and won the national title (2000).

Michigan Congressman Bart Stupak and a woman's right to choose.

Fear again. Not hope, nor patriotism, nor progress, nor any of the nobler emotions and impulses by which human beings are driven. Nope. None of those. Instead, fear. Again.

Michigan will hold its annual pro day today in Glick Field House, a chance for 12 draft-eligible Wolverines to make an impression on NFL scouts.

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Quicken Loans founder and chair Dan Gilbert announced Thursday that one of his related companies, Fathead, also will move downtown this summer when he moves about 1,700 Quicken employees to the Compuware building.

The congressional panel overseeing federal bailout recipients estimates GMAC will never repay at least $6.3 billion of $17.2 billion in taxpayer aid and called on the Treasury Department to demand GMAC take drastic steps -- including a possible bankruptcy for its troubled ResCap mortgage lending business.

The case has been made that the Bush administration railroaded America into invading Iraq by ignoring evidence, facts and logic and never considering the consequences.

Workers on the public payroll continue to have it much better than the taxpayers who support them, says Leon Drolet of the Taxpayers Alliance.

Don't be surprised if you hear after this season, many national pundit say the Big Ten has made a comeback. If they do, all they will need to do is look at the number of Midwesterners leading the way.

The pain of a dwindling state budget has to fall equitably, not just on state workers, says Phil Thompson of the SEIU.

Nearly every member of Michigan State's rotation has given coach Tom Izzo fits this season. But junior guard Durrell Summers might be near the top of the list.

Midway through the first quarter of Wednesday night's loss to the Jazz, Pistons fans were treated to a sight they hadn't seen in some time.

Move over Vernors and Better Made Potato Chips, a high-decibel, balding college basketball analyst needs room behind the glass. Dick Vitale might have coached for only seven years in Detroit, but the Detroit Historical Museum has decided his post-coaching contributions are so luminous that he will be part of the museum's upcoming exhibit: Detroit's Beloved Sports Coaches.

BATTLE CREEK -- Julie Youngquist was standing on the pool deck coaching her age-group swimmers one winter's day when in walked two police officers. Standing between the two of them was her son, Clay. "Is this your child?" one of the officers asked.

WASHINGTON — Retail sales posted a surprising increase in February as consumers did not let major snowstorms stop them from storming the malls. The advance, the biggest since November, provided hope that the recovery from the Great Recession is gaining momentum.