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The government says it is committed to delivering the rail line to Manchester amid rising costs.

The Michigan Panthers are coming home to play games in Detroit for the USFL this year.

GenBioPro argues that FDA regulations on the abortion pill pre-empt West Virginia's state law that basically bans the medication.

A teenager was arrested in Las Vegas after he grabbed a woman from behind, stole her purse, and used her credit cards at multiple stores around Metro Detroit, police said.

Administrators of a trust fund established to preserve historic Black churches in the United States have revealed the first 35 houses of worship that will receive financial grants totaling $4 million.

An underground fire in an Alabama landfill is continuing to pollute the air more than 50 days after the blaze. The air quality monitors surrounding the landfill are detecting pollution.

A woman’s purse was stolen while walking in Birmingham last week just after she closed her business, police report.

Sugaring has been around for hundreds of years, but this organic way of hair removal has recently taken over Metro Detroit and social media sites like TikTok and Instagram.

Non-league footballer Cody Fisher was fatally attacked at a club in Birmingham on Boxing Day.

GRAND HAVEN, MI – A third recreational marijuana dispensary has been approved in the city of Grand Haven. The city currently has one recreational dispensary, New Standard, at 1125 S. Beacon Boulevard. Levels Cannabis is planning to construct a recreational dispensary at 1021 Jackson Street, for which it already has received city approval, Grand Haven Planning Director Brian Urquhart told MLive/Muskegon Chronicle. RELATED: Divided, cranky council approves retail marijuana sales in Grand HavenCity council members voted in June to allow marijuana retail sales in Grand Haven, with their approval exposing deep divisions among them. The Grand Haven City Council voted 3-2 to allow recreational marijuana dispensaries and other businesses.

A woman in England was arrested for praying near an abortion center in Kings Norton, Birmingham, United Kingdom, and later spoke out to Fox News' Tucker Carlson.

Find some great gifts and enjoy a festive atmosphere all at once at the Birmingham Shopping District.

It follows information given to police regarding a death at a property in Birmingham in 2020.

As three boys die after plunging into a frozen lake near Solihull, tales of community spirit emerge.

For some children in low-income areas in England, a school lunch may be the only nutritious hot meal they get in a day.

Mike Dodds says the relationship between him and the 19-year-old England star transcends football.

Brett Young has joined the many country artists going on tour in 2023 with the announcement of his "5 Tour 3 2 1" tour with Morgan Evans and Ashley Cooke.

The CDC, in a report published Wednesday, found that about 51% of abortions in 2020 were performed with the pill at or before the ninth week of pregnancy.

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey sought a pause in executions and ordered a “top-to-bottom” review of the state's capital punishment system Monday after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection. Ivey's office issued a statement saying she had both asked Attorney General Steve Marshall to withdraw motions seeking execution dates for two inmates and requested that the Department of Corrections undertake a full review of the state's execution process. Ivey also requested that Marshall not seek additional execution dates for any other death row inmates until the review is complete.

A women's volleyball team at a small, historically Black college withdrew from their conference tournament in Alabama after a member was subjected to racial abuse during an awards banquet, officials said. A Talladega College player using a feature that allows nearby cellphones to transfer data to each other received a “racially motivated picture” during the Southern States Athletic Conference's volleyball awards banquet, held last week during the tournament in Montgomery, the conference said in a statement. Officials didn't release details on what the image showed, but the conference described the act as “vile and vicious.”

‘Guests should expect a dining experience that will transcend taste,’ according to ownership

A man facing a potential death penalty in the killing of three people who were shot at an Alabama church dinner in June is fighting a court-ordered mental evaluation requested by prosecutors. Robert Findlay Smith, 70, hasn't told a court he plans to use a defense of insanity or mental illness and shouldn't have to undergo psychological testing at a state facility unless he does so, the defense argued in a brief objection filed Friday. Circuit Judge Teresa Pulliam, who approved prosecutors' request for an outpatient mental evaluation the day before, hadn't ruled on Smith's motion on Monday.

Here’s where you can find Michigan general election results for Birmingham on Nov. 8, 2022.

After beating Birmingham Marian 2-1 last Thursday, University Liggett School girls varsity field hockey advanced to the Division 2 state semifinals by blanking Cranbrook 4-0 Monday, Oct. 24. Lexie Gormely scored the game’s first goal before Olivia Thomas followed up with three consecutive goals to earn a natural hat trick. Alexandra Karolak had the shut

A tax attorney from Oakland County who was accused of wiring $6.5 million of his client’s money to a Swiss bank account has been found not guilty of all charges.

The Southeastern Conference has imposed another six-figure fine for fans storming the field, this time hitting LSU with a $250,000 penalty. The league announced the fine Sunday after LSU fans stormed the field to celebrate a win over No. 15 Mississippi. The Rebels were ranked seventh at the time.

A grieving Birmingham family says enough is enough, as they’ve joined a lawsuit seeking damages from the social media site Snapchat over the death of their son.

A man was charged with abusing the corpse of a former girlfriend whose body was found in a shallow grave in an Alabama barn days after the two had met in the Florida Panhandle to exchange custody of their daughter. Authorities in St. Clair County, Alabama, on Monday said Marcus Spanevelo, 35, was accused of mistreating the remains of Cassie Carli but wasn't charged in her death, news outlets reported. The charge was announced days after authorities in Florida dismissed an evidence-tampering charge that had been filed against Spanevelo over the investigation into the woman's disappearance in Santa Rosa County.

The Southeastern Conference has fined Tennessee $100,000 for a wild, field-storming celebration after a win over Alabama. Meanwhile, the school has turned to fans to help pay for new goalposts. The league announced the fine on Sunday for the school's second violation of the access to competition area policy.

Federal agents raided the home of an Oakland County art gallery owner Friday on Colony Hill Drive near 14 Mile and Inkster roads in Franklin.

Taking some time with your garden in the fall and winter will set you up for success in the coming months

British Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarteng was fired on Friday, amid mounting political pressure and market chaos after less than six weeks in the role.

There are many great haunted experiences in the area, but a new one just opened up this year, and it will only be here for the month of October. The Birmingham 8 Theater Powered by Emagine, has been transformed into a scary haunted experience called Ghosts on the Balcony.

We’re exploring home value data across the area, and identified the 15 zip codes with the highest average home value in Metro Detroit.

Britain has imposed sanctions on Iran’s so-called “morality police” and several security officials in response to the violent crackdown on antigovernment protesters.

Britain’s Treasury chief says he will bring forward the publication of the government’s full fiscal statement after facing widespread criticism for not providing details about a multibillion-pound, tax-cutting stimulus package he announced last month.

U.K. government ministers are imploring Conservative colleagues to rally behind Prime Minister Liz Truss after a disastrous start to her premiership.

The papers react to Liz Truss's Conservative conference speech as infighting in the party continues.

Britain’s immigration minister says people who arrive by unauthorized means should not be allowed to claim asylum in the U.K. Home Secretary Suella Braverman vowed to press on with a contentious plan to send some arriving asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda.

Liz Truss should be celebrating her first month as Britain’s prime minister.

Tory MPs said the decision to offer the best paid a tax cut was unsellable, explains the BBC's Chris Mason.

British Prime Minister Liz Truss has acknowledged she could have done a better job “laying the ground” for her package of unfunded tax cuts.

BIRMINGHAM, MI - Forget playing movies in October at this historic Michigan movie theater. Already said to be haunted, the Birmingham 8 has instead been turned into a haunted attraction leading up to Halloween. Emagine has teamed with Bluewater, a live event production company, to create the experience it calls “Ghosts on the Balcony.” The haunted attraction opens at the nearly 100-year old movie theater located at 211 South Old Woodward Avenue on October 1st and runs the entire month. Tickets can be purchased here.

Check out this haunted attraction in Birmingham

The actor who plays slasher villain Michael Myers will host Q&A screening of ‘Halloween Kills’ after opening haunted house at Birmingham 8 theater

Two U.S. military veterans who disappeared three months ago while fighting with Ukrainian forces have arrived in their home state of Alabama.

Jack Grealish attended a party at the home of rape-accused footballer Benjamin Mendy, a court hears.

BIRMINGHAM, MI - Michael Myers, himself, is coming to an actual haunted Michigan theater which is being transformed into a Halloween attraction. No movies will be shown in the entire month of October at the nearly 100-year old Michigan theatre that’s said to be haunted. After the ribbon cutting event, Jude Courtney will host a Q & A screening of “Halloween KIlls” at the Emagine Palladium at 209 Hamilton Row in Birmingham at 7:00 p.m. A portion of proceeds from popcorn sales for this event will benefit Jay’s Juniors, a foundation to benefit chronically and terminally ill children. MORE FROM MLIVE:Elvira ‘Mistress of the Dark’ is coming to Michigan right before HalloweenTwo Michigan small towns listed among the spookiest places to visit for Halloween‘Immersive Klimt’ surrounds you in the artist’s provocative and sensual works

Sarah Collins Rudolph lost an eye and has pieces of glass inside her body from a Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed her sister and three other Black girls inside an Alabama church 59 years ago.

Sarah Collins Rudolph lost an eye and still has pieces of glass inside her body from a Ku Klux Klan bombing that killed her sister and three other Black girls at an Alabama church 59 years ago, and she's still waiting on the state to compensate her for those injuries. Gov. Kay Ivey sidestepped the question of financial compensation two years ago in apologizing to Rudolph for her “untold pain and suffering," saying legislative involvement was needed. Rudolph will meet with President Joe Biden at the White House for a summit about combatting hate-fueled violence on Thursday, the anniversary of the bombing.

A Black pastor who was arrested by white police officers while watering the flowers of a neighbor who was out of town filed a federal lawsuit alleging the ordeal violated his constitutional rights and caused lingering problems including emotional distress and anxiety. Michael Jennings filed the lawsuit Friday night against three officers and the central Alabama town of Childersburg requesting a jury trial and seeking an unspecified amount of money. Jennings’ lawyers held a news conference outside the Birmingham federal courthouse on Saturday to discuss the lawsuit, and the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, and other groups planned a rally afterward at a downtown park.

The move is described as "a huge step in the right direction" by a specialist cap maker.

Newly-wed Robert Kaweesi, from Birmingham, has been missing in Uganda since Wednesday.

Taco Bell is testing a plant-based meat substitute made from soy and pea protein at its restaurants in Birmingham, Alabama.

The Woodward Dream Cruise wants to remind the general public of the weight restrictions for commercial trucks and trailers for August 20.

Mark Pritchard says the direct service from London to Wellington in Shropshire is "well-used".

sweetgreen, a fast-casual salad bar chain, opened its first Michigan doors Tuesday in Oakland County.

Here are the Wolverines -- both past and present -- competing in the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Six athletes set to compete in Birmingham on Tuesday are stuck in France because of visa problems.

Britain’s Prince Charles is facing more questions over his charities after a newspaper reported that one of his funds accepted a 1 million-pound ($1.2 million) donation from relatives of Osama bin Laden.

An Alabama grand jury has indicted a 70-year-old man on capital murder charges in the fatal shooting deaths of three people at a church potluck dinner in June.

Birmingham is shining again after seeing its fortunes plummet in the 1960s and 70s.

Olympic gold medalist Tom Daley protested intolerance toward the LGBTQ+ community at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games.

Thousands head to Birmingham for the Commonwealth Games and will be greeted by a riot of colour.

There was no additional information on the condition of the hospitalized passengers.

The band will perform at the opening ceremony in their hometown of Birmingham later this month

The move by the online giant comes as supermarkets battle for shoppers amid the soaring cost of living

BIRMINGHAM, MI – Greater Bay just knows how to win. The sweep of the best-of-three series vaults Greater Bay on to the state tournament at Mount Pleasant’s Union Township Little League beginning July 22. Greater Bay, the combined Bay City Northwest and Essexville-Hampton all-star team, won the 10-and-under state championship a year ago with many of the same players. With a chance to put the sectional away, Greater Bay pounced on the opportunity in Game 2. Greater Bay scored two runs in the first inning, four in the second, four in the third and five in the fourth to remove all doubt.

A tax attorney from Oakland County was hired by a business owner to help her settle an IRS investigation, but he convinced her she owed $6.5 million more than she actually did so he could put that money in his own Swiss bank account, federal officials said.

Vehicle 486 was once a home for a retired miner in a Herefordshire field.

Emails and phone calls from same-sex couples, worried about the legal status of their marriages and keeping their children, flooded attorney Sydney Duncan’s office within hours of the Supreme Court’s decision eliminating the constitutional right to abortion. The ruling last week didn’t directly affect the 2015 decision that paved the way for same-sex marriage. “That has a lot of people scared and, I think, rightfully so,” said Duncan, who specializes in representing members of the LGBTQ community at the Magic City Legal Center in Birmingham.

Birmingham police said 12 cars were stolen from residents over the span of nine days, and 7-10 of them had been left unlocked with the keys inside.

The Copacabana and Mandy singer lunched at The Swallows Nest pub in Romsley on Tuesday.

A witness to a shooting that killed three at an Alabama church says the gunman had sat by himself, drinking liquor and rejecting offers to join the others gathered at the potluck dinner.

Smith, 70, is facing capital murder charges in the shooting deaths of a man and two women killed during a Thursday night potluck supper at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. Jim Musgrove, a church member, hit the shooter with a chair and wrestled the gun away from him, Carpenter said. Smith’s federal firearms investigation took a total of 83 hours, the report said, and the inspection period ran from Sept. 18, 2016 to Sept. 18, 2017. The ATF report said agents found 86 firearms in Smith’s possession compared to 97 on his official dealer’s record. He also failed to record the address of gun buyers, the report said.

Saturday night's incredible colours had people reaching for their cameras across the UK.

The landlord recommended using the “20-degree rule” to set the thermostat. Most air conditioning systems are designed to accommodate up to a 20-degree difference between the outside air and inside air while still keeping around a 55% humidity level. Here’s what that means: When it’s 80 degrees outside, it’s easy for your AC to keep your house at 70 degrees inside. Even if it is 90 degrees out, your air conditioner should still easily reach the 70-degree mark. If you have your air conditioner set to a big differential, you will likely run your AC all day long and still not quite reach those desired temperatures.

Police declined to identify the suspect or the victims, or provide further details on the attack.

Police declined to identify the suspect or the victims, or provide further details on the attack.

Police say a 70-year-old man who fatally shot three elderly people at a church potluck dinner in Alabama had attended services there previously.

Police say a lone suspect fired on a small group meeting at a church near one of Alabama’s major cities, fatally wounding two people and injuring a third victim.

Cabinet Office minister Heather Wheeler had been speaking at a conference in London.

"This was just a matter of helping him get through crowds," a source close to Johnny Depp told Insider.

Blame bad budget assumptions and consistently declining enrollment for the budget hole the Birmingham Public Schools is in. The budget shortfall in totality is $14 million.

A 26-year-old Clinton Township man was arrested for eavesdropping after leaving a phone on and recording in a bathroom in Birmingham.

Steve Stricker completed at a wire-to-wire victory Sunday in the Regions Tradition, closing with a 4-under 68 for a six-stroke victory and his fourth PGA Tour Champions major title.

Two physicians who run a clinic in Alabama to treat children with gender dysphoria are bracing themselves now that a law that makes some of their work a crime has gone into effect.

A group of people and businesses in West Bloomfield, Dearborn, Detroit, Clinton Township and several others cities across Metro Detroit have been linked to a complex fraud scheme aimed at soliciting millions of dollars’ worth of business from Michigan crash victims over the past decade.

The final phase of remodeling one last part of Old Woodward in Birmingham was approved Monday (April 11) night at one of the city’s meetings. The goal is to help slow down traffic, provide safer pedestrian crossings and improve infrastructure in general.

It was a Premier League day that could hardly have gone any better for Tottenham.

Police are looking for a missing 17-year-old boy who hasn’t been seen since he left his Birmingham home.

Two burial sites in Birmingham’s Greenwood Cemetery have been recognized by the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom.

A Michigan State tennis player who lost 60 pounds and had to re-learn how to sit up and walk due to a near-death bout with ulcerative colitis has returned to the court and seized the No. 1 position on his team.

When you go to a bar or a restaurant, you may encounter a lot of intriguing individuals, and one woman is taking her enthusiasm for people-watching to a new level. She is known as the bar sketch artist, and she enjoys illustrating her surroundings.

Practicing diversity, equity and inclusion -- or DEI -- has become commonplace for many people and industries across the U.S. as society responds to increasingly public outcries against racism.

Birmingham Public Schools discovered a more than $14 million mid-year budget deficit.

In June, Birmingham Public Schools adopted a budget that had an estimated $1.58 million shortfall -- now they’re saying it’s actually a $14 million shortfall. That has implications for people’s property taxes.

Whether you crave classic fish and chips, or you love to start your night off with oysters, Hazel’s has your favorites from the sea. Michelle Oliver takes us there to Dine in the D.

A fire was burning at a coney island in Birmingham on Thursday morning.

Kim DeGiulio takes you to a unique gymnastics practice, where three schools are working together: Groves and Seaholm high schools for Birmingham Unified Gymnastics, and Troy High School gymnastics.