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On June 11, people in Mount Clemens will try to set a record for the most people in an inflatable dinosaur costume. The city tried to break this same record last year and failed.

If you live in Michigan, you’ve probably heard the debate over what we should call people who live here. For the most part, it’s a battle between…

Shades of A Charlie Brown Christmas are playing out on a busy intersection in West Toledo.The Toledo Christmas Weed, a lonely sapling growing out of a…

Ninety-nine-year-old Clarise Kramer Cadarette Grzenkowicz has been bartending at the Maplewood Tavern near Alpena, Michigan for the past 78 years. She has…

This weekend, baseball fans will roll the clock way back, more than 150 years.There's a four-game tournament of early baseball happening at Cambridge…

It's a momentous week at the Frederik Meijer Gardens.Its once-tiny corpse flower is now a strapping plant, reaching several feet high, and it's about to…

Star Wars: The Last Jedi opened with the bang of a thermal detonator this weekend, becoming the second-highest grossing opening weekend for a film ever in…

It wasn't quite Between Two Ferns, but Jeff Daniels and Stephen Colbert did sit beside a fern-like plant when delivering Chelsea, Michigan's "Community…

When you’re driving into Lexington, Michigan on M-25, you pass this house with a teeny wooden sign out front: “Mary’s Pie Shop: Ho’Made.” No store front,…

So much so that they're apparently taking it out on statues now.Google "Columbus statue vandalism" and you'll drum up all manner of news stories about…