Updated: 6:41 PM According to the 2003 Uniform Crime Report released by the Michigan State Police, auto thefts in Michigan are up nearly 8 percent.

Updated: 3:40 PM After less than a year at the top of Kmart, the outgoing CEO discloses a pricey goodbye from the company.

Updated: 3:27 PM A 747 jumbo jet landed at Detroit's metropolitan airport minus one of its giant engines. The crew thought they were having engine trouble and were surprised to see it was gone completely.

Updated: 10:27 AM Violent crime dropped in Michigan during 2003, but more cars were stolen.

Updated: 9:38 AM A MSU student who reported she was assaulted outside an MSU dorm now says the attack never happened.

Updated: 7:46 AM The city of Lansing says they are more then $220,000 short of funding traffic calming projects that it promised it citizens.

Updated: 6:52 PM Levon Tarele Pate, 18, hobbled into the Eaton County District Courtroom Wednesday afternoon to hear the 16 counts against him.

Updated: 7:50 AM The Shigella outbreak will likely increase.

Updated: 5:45 PM Candidates in an obscure race for the MSU Board surface in a TV debate.

Updated: 6:11 PM Starting October 28, banks will be allowed to electronically process checks, meaning no more float time.

Updated: 1:48 PM The peak has already passed for fall colors in the U.P. and it is nearing in Michigan's Lower Peninsula.

Updated: 1:56 PM Michigan's jobless rate rose by one-tenth of a percent in September.

Updated: 1:45 PM There’s an outbreak of Shigella at Willow Elementary School.

Updated: 1:43 PM A federal judge rules that provisional ballots, ballots that may be given to voters that show up to the incorrect precinct, will be counted for federal elections.

Updated: 7:43 AM The Lansing City Rescue Mission is asking for help. Donations are down and they need at least 1,200 more additional coats for their second annual winter coat giveaway in three weeks.

Updated: 9:19 AM The Olin Health Center will distribute more than 7,000 cold and flu kits.

Posted: 6:29 PM Eaton County prosecutors could charge the man, also suspected in the Walsh Park double murder, at his hospital bedside. He is in serious condition at a local hospital.

Updated: 1:58 PM Lawyers for the former head of the Michigan Democratic Party were unsuccessful in their bid to have prostitution charges against their client dismissed.

Updated: 12:24 PM East Lansing election officials are replacing absentee ballots believed lost in the mail.

Updated: 1:43 PM GM workers in Europe are unhappy with plant management. They are staging protests to fight what they call "bad management."

Updated: 4:46 PM Halloween may be two weeks away, but now is the time to get a costume!

Updated: 8:44 AM Lansing's Board of Water and Light (BWL) disclosed the results of an internal audit of ten questionable spending items. The BWL found no misspending or fraud.

Updated: 6:51 PM One suspect is in critical condition in a local hospital. Another is in jail, as Eaton County and Ingham County investigators look at charges against both men related to the Walsh Park shooting and the Red Robin hostage situation Sunday night.

Updated: 6:48 PM A Michigan State University student is spreading awareness about meningitis and the vaccine that could prevent the potentially fatal disease.

Updated: 6:28 PM One of the Lansing School District's substitute teachers has been suspended for inappropriately disciplining an Otto Middle School student. The girl's legal guardian says she was tied to a chair.