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Detroit still fails to keep residents

The exodus from Detroit continues, the Census Bureau says, more feet-on-the-ground evidence that the city's chronic mismanagement is perpetuating a problem years in the making. More

Brewers team up with beer to be released on Memorial Day to help military families

Former major league pitcher Chris Ray pours one of his baseball-themed beers at The Diamond in Richmond, Va., Wednesday, May 22, 2013. Proceeds from the specialty brew will be given to military families. Joe Mahoney/Associated Press

Richmond, Va. — Craft breweries from around the country are toasting the troops with a beer aged with a unique ingredient that symbolizes America's pastime — baseball bats. More

Big plans are in the works for a tiny Capitol Park in downtown Detroit

The former United Way building at 1214 Griswold was bought earlier this year. The state approved a $6 million loan for the historic building. Steve Perez/The Detroit News

Capitol Park, site of Michigan's first Capitol building and more recently where people wait for the bus, is a major front in the block-by-block battle to gentrify downtown. More

Rationale behind Beaumont-Henry Ford merger still alive

Metro Detroit's mega-hospital merger may be dead, but the forces that pushed Beaumont Health Systems into the arms of its larger rival, Henry Ford, are very much alive. More

U.S. unemployment aid applications fall to 340K

Washington — The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits fell by 23,000 last week, further evidence that the job market is slowly returning to health. More

Groundbreaking procedure at U-M hospital saves baby's life

Kaiba Gionfriddo plays with his mother, April outside his Youngstown, Ohio home on Tuesday. Born with a birth defect that caused the boy to stop breathing every day, he can now breathe normally, with a first-of-a-kind biodegradable airway made by Michigan doctors using plastic particles and a 3-D laser printer. Mark Stahl/Associated Press

Kaiba Gionfriddo is a healthy toddler, thanks to a groundbreaking procedure at the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital. Doctors there used 3-D technology to create a bio-absorbable scaffold to hold Kaiba's bronchus open until it grows strong enough to stay open on its own. More

Foxx, tapped to replace LaHood, vows to keep fighting against distracted driving

Foxx Olivier Douliery/MCT

President Barack Obama's pick to head the Transportation Department vowed to keep up the government's fight against distracted driving. More

ACO closing 14 hardware stores; 7 in Metro Detroit

ACO Home, Garden & Hardware, Michigan's largest independent hardware retailer, will close 14 stores in the state, half of them in Metro Detroit. More

Cheesecake Factory sets opening date at Twelve Oaks

Michigan's first Cheesecake Factory will open Aug. 13 at Twelve Oaks Mall. Taubman Centers

The Cheesecake Factory has set an opening date for its location at the Twelve Oaks Mall. More

Different visions doom merger of Henry Ford, Beaumont

Schlichting

Two of the region’s largest health care systems, Henry Ford and Beaumont, have scrapped plans for a merger that would have created a 10-hospital system serving as much as 40 percent of the area’s patients. More

Books-A-Million sees opportunity in Michigan, opens stores in old Borders locations

Mark Gaylord-Miles reads a book to Gracie Romalia, 11 months, and her grandmother, Diana Swatosh, at Books-A-Million in Beverly Hills. Photos by Todd McInturf/The Detroit News

Books-A-Million, one of the nation's leading book retailers, has opened two stores in southeast Michigan in recent months and plans an aggressive search for more brick-and-mortar properties here. More

Reliance One hiring 400 test drivers in southeast Michigan

Auburn Hills-based Reliance One is hiring 400 test drivers to meet a growing demand from local automotive companies. More

U.S. home sales tick up to highest in more than 3 years

Washington — Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes ticked up last month to the highest level in three and a half years, helped by a jump in the number of houses for sale. More

Bernanke signals Fed to maintain stimulus efforts

Washington — Chairman Ben Bernanke is telling Congress Wednesday that the U.S. job market remains weak and that it is too soon for the Federal Reserve to end its extraordinary stimulus programs. More

State loans $6 million to old United Way building for renovations

The historic former United Way building in downtown's Capitol Park district received a $6 million loan Wednesday from the state of Michigan's Strategic Fund. More

Groundbreaking procedure at U-M hospital saves baby's life

Kaiba Gionfriddo and his mother April Gionfriddo in their home last summer. University of Michigan Health System

Kaiba Gionfriddo is a healthy toddler, thanks to a groundbreaking procedure at the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital. Doctors there used 3-D technology to create a bio-absorbable scaffold to hold Kaiba's bronchus open until it grows strong enough to stay open on its own. More

Danialle Karmanos abruptly cancels white-tie gala for hubby

Pete and Danialle Karmanos Ricardo Thomas / The Detroit News

After vowing the event would go on, Danialle Karmanos has canceled a June 8 white-tie gala honoring her husband, retired Compuware founder Pete Karmanos, in favor of what she said will be a more inclusive community party later this summer. More

Meijer first to open at Detroit's Gateway Marketplace shopping center

Melvin London works on striping the new parking lot spaces at Meijer in the Gateway Marketplace, at Eight Mile and Woodward in Detroit. Clarence Tabb Jr. /The Detroit News

With a grand opening scheduled for late July, developers of Detroit's Gateway Marketplace shopping center say they hope it will serve as the pinnacle of the city's Woodward Avenue revitalization, drawing additional retailers in its wake. More

Downtown Birmingham booms again with new, upscale retail

Birmingham has worked to attract businesses that draw foot traffic to the downtown shopping district. Jose Juarez / Special to The Detroit News

Downtown Birmingham, which struggled to fill storefronts after anchor Jacobson’s closed in 2002, has reinvented itself with a creative mix of national name brands and local boutiques. More

ESPN cutting workforce, 'smartly managing costs'

The company would not say how many jobs are being eliminated, but they include unfilled positions. ESPN has about 7,000 employees worldwide, with about 4,000 at its headquarters in Bristol, Conn. The vast majority work behind the scenes. More

Panel: Apple uses firms outside U.S. to avoid taxes

— Apple's CEO is disputing assertions by a Senate panel that the company avoids billions of dollars in U.S. taxes by shifting profits to foreign affiliates. More

Expert: Summer gas prices likely to be lower than 2012

A service person works on a sign at a BP station in Vadnais Heights, Minn. Marlin Levison/Associated Press

West Lafayette, Ind. — A Purdue University economist says he expects this summer's gasoline prices to be lower than last year. More

Public charter Lakeshore Express adds service to Pellston airport

Lakeshore Express, a public charter launching flights from Oakland County International Airport to Chicago's Midway Airport starting June 6, will begin service to Pellston Regional Airport in northern Michigan that same day. More

Henry Ford, Beaumont hospital merger called off

Nancy Schlichting, president and CEO of Henry Ford Health System, announced the merger plan was off. Ricardo Thomas / The Detroit News

The planned merger of Henry Ford Health System and Beaumont Health System is off after the Henry Ford Board of Trustees Tuesday decided to let their letter of intent with Beaumont expire. More

Michigan sees increase in funding for start-up businesses

Michigan is a goldmine of funding for new start-up businesses, despite a dip in such giving nationally, according to the Michigan Venture Capital Association. More

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