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Code developers are invited to the state's first-ever Code Michigan event this October for an opportunity to build mobile applications and win cash prizes. The free "civic coding" event will also feature presentations from heavy-hitters in the technology industry."This unique event is only one example of how the State of Michigan is thinking...

Today at 10:30 a.m. Governor Rick Snyder and Detroit Public Schools emergency manager Roy Roberts will announce Jack Martin as the new Emergency Manager for DPS. Earlier this year Roberts announced that he would step down. Martin is a former General Motors executive who has aided the academically and financially struggling Highland Park school...

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Six women found George Zimmerman, 29, “not guilty” on all charges for the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin and the slain teen’s parents have spoken out about the verdict:

(CNN) -- Will George Zimmerman walk, or be banished to a life behind bars? That's the question as a jury of six resumes deliberations for a second day Saturday morning. Zimmerman is on trial for last year's shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. The all-female jury got the case Friday afternoon after two weeks of testimony and and dramatic closing arguments over the past two days.

Page 1 of 2Today, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) President and CEO Benjamin Jealous signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) at the NAACP's 104th Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida.The...

A Florida judge put the fate of George Zimmerman into the hands of a six-woman jury Friday, setting the stage for what could be the final chapter in a legal saga that began with Trayvon Martin's death and highlighted sharp divisions over race and gun control in the United States.The jury began deliberations moments after Judge Debra Nelson...

A 12 year old Detroit boy is in police custody for allegedly robbing a bank in Southfield.Police say the incident happened around 3 a.m. Friday at the Bank of America branch on Greenfield Road near 10 Mile Road, just south of I-696. Officers responded to the scene after receiving a call from the bank's security monitoring company, who said that...

Ford Racing, in a partnership with The Henry Ford Museum, gave NASCAR star Carl Edwards the chance to drive Ford's very first race car, the historic 1901 Sweepstakes, driven by Henry Ford in his one and only race.Edwards drove the car around the grounds of Greenfield Village at The Henry Ford, under the guidance of Sweepstakes Engineer Glenn...