Updated: 5:51 PM The Food and Drug Administration puts a black box warning on the popular injectable contraceptive.

Updated: 9:27 AM In 1990, Jeffrey Van Patten pleaded guilty to manslaughter, felony firearms, and mutilating a corpse. Fourteen years later, he's a free man.

Updated: 9:21 AM In a public meeting citizens of East Lansing asked questions about the East Village Project. Some answers say committee project officials could take years.

Updated: 9:23 AM For the last four years, college graduate hiring has been pretty bleak, but things could be looking up this year.

Updated: 6:18 PM A new study released by the University of Michigan shows people are finding increasing satisfaction with sweet and smoking vices.

Updated: 6:14 PM Michigan unemployment improved slightly in October. However, it remains above the national unemployment rate.

Updated: 6:13 PM Fifty-one-year-old Coral Eugene Watts has been found guilty of killing a Detroit area woman 25 years ago. Watts confessed to a dozen other killings more than 20 years ago.

Updated: 6:09 PM Health officials have confirmed it is the Norwalk virus that caused more than one-hundred students to get sick at Fowlerville High School.

Updated: 6:02 PM A man found dead in Hillsdale may have been accidentally shot by deer hunters.

Updated: 1:41 PM A group of eight citizens launch a lawsuit to keep Meridian Township following its own rules and state laws. Meridian denies any wrongdoing.

Updated: 1:27 PM Sparrow is adding a 40-slice Computed Tomography scanner, one of only six in the world.

Updated: 9:19 AM Construction season is almost over, but expect to see work continue through the winter on one of the Michigan Department of Transportation's projects.

Updated: 7:24 PM Dr. James Kursch of the Sparrow Senior Center will be speaking at a seminar to discuss advances in treatment for Alzheimer's disease.

Updated: 7:16 PM School administrators at Fowlerville High School report a growing number of absenteeism late last week and into this week.

Updated: 7:14 PM An economist says the state government's budget deficit will mushroom to just under a billion dollars, which may force more cuts in local and state government services.

Updated: 1:57 PM President Bush has nominated national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to become the next secretary of state.

Updated: 8:55 AM After three burglaries in which more than $10,000 worth of equipment was stolen, Holt School administrators are offering a $5,000 reward for the person's arrest and conviction.

Updated: 6:58 PM The State Commission on Patient Safety held an open hearing Monday to discuss ways to combat medical errors.

Updated: 8:51 AM For the next 15 days, the woodlands of Michigan will be full of hunters trying to bag themselves a buck. But when hunting starts, area businesses and schools empty out.

Updated: 8:57 AM Thanksgiving is just over one week away, and the Lansing City Rescue Mission needs your help to make sure families in mid-Michigan get a holiday meal.

Updated: 5:57 PM Michigan's 14-year-old age limit for firearm big game hunting is higher than Wisconsin, Ohio, and Indiana, and may drive young hunters to take aim elsewhere.

Updated: 5:30 PM A Marine from Mount Pleasant has been killed in Iraq.

Updated: 4:00 PM Michigan prison guards are in court challenging a state decision to leave manned guard towers unstaffed during the evening and night.

Updated: 2:19 PM Top State Department officials say Secretary of State Colin Powell has announced his resignation.

Updated: 1:57 PM Jackson police are investigating a suspicious apartment fire. Dozens were forced to evacuate their homes.