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People in the horse business say they’ve never seen anything like it. Last winter, as the recession hit hard and hay prices skyrocketed, horses were abandoned in state parks. The Humane Society fielded calls about...

Bookstores and restaurants may be closing, but downtown still has four stores with “chocolate” in their names: Kilwin’s Chocolates, Schakolad Chocolate Factory, Carillon Chocolates, and Rocky Mountain Chocolate...

In early November, long lines of applicants snaked outside the company’s warehouse on Phoenix Drive. But Zingerman’s national sales arm played it conservative this year, hiring 10 percent fewer seasonal workers to...

Just north of the Huron River, two homes and a small apartment house stand forlornly between two U-M parking lots along Wall Street and Maiden Lane. They won’t be lonely much longer: the U, which owns all three buildings,...

Rebecca’s black Coach bag had a stuck zipper, so she didn’t close it as she shopped at Kohl’s one weekday morning. A pickpocket took the opportunity to steal her Visa and bank cards. In the hour before she...

The people thrown out of work when the Ann Arbor News closed in July are getting on with their lives. After twelve years at the News, photographer Leisa Thompson is snapping senior portraits, weddings, and images for some local...

With the narrow defeat of a police service millage in Ypsilanti Township, sheriff Jerry Clayton has to figure out how to patrol the county’s -second-largest community with ten fewer deputies–and also what to do with...

Ann Arbor was the only municipality that supported the proposed two-mill “enhancement” tax in the November election. “We did gauge the temperature of this community accurately,” says Ann Arbor PTSO...

Burglaries dropped sharply in October, with 65 reports (including attempts). Thanks to a timely call from a northeast side resident, “We caught two [burglars] right in the act” in late September, says AAPD Det. Lt....