Updated: 6:01 PM You've seen them in the store, probably even had one pass you on the road, magnetic ribbons, yellow, pink, red, white, and blue. It’s a $3 display of patriotism that could cost you much more in the long run, up to 100 times what you paid for it.

Updated: 5:31 PM The utility giant asks for permission to raise its rates.

Updated: 4:15 PM The auto giant is reviving the plaza and promenade along the Detroit River outside its headquarters.

Updated: 4:11 PM The man who caused an August car wreck that killed two Holt teens pleads guilty.

Posted: 2:05 PM An Ann Arbor homeless man escapes injury when the dumpster he is sleeping in is lifted and dumped into a trash truck.

Updated: 1:01 PM Parents and students get the chance to speak out against proposed plans to close five Lansing schools.

Updated: 11:34 AM When Superintendent E. Sharon Banks first announced that five Lansing Schools could be closing, she asked board members to look at issues that could affect a decision either way.

Updated: 11:37 AM The Sierra Club filed a complaint with the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality about an MSU farm.

Updated: 5:01 PM Maggie Covert's home is nearby Lansing's Maple Grove School. And a school closing could cut her business in half.

Updated: 2:25 PM GM spends hundreds of millions of dollars to tune up two Flint plants.

Updated: 1:10 PM Lansing Eastern High hasn't played a true “home” football game in 50 years. Lansing Catholic Central has never played a real “home” game. That may all change in the not so distant future.

Updated: 11:28 PM When the Commission on Higher Education and Economic Growth released it's report it said the State must do more to encourage college education -- but you won't find any specific solutions inside it.

Updated: 6:26 PM A local dermatologist explains what the best treatments are for dry, chapped skin.

Updated: 6:23 PM November unemployment was seven percent in November, the highest level of 2004.

Updated: 6:17 PM Transportation experts discuss ways to meet the needs of Michigan's communities and businesses.

Updated: 5:13 PM A new report says it's important to help more students get help paying for college, but how to pay for that is up in the air.

Updated: 4:00 PM The state Civil Service Commission has approved pay increases of 10 percent spread over the next three years; however, there will be some contract concessions to help balance the state budget.

Updated: 6:06 PM Your heating bill will run you about $20 more per month this winter. Millions of dollars more in grant money is being released to help low income families who can't afford to pay their heating bills.

Updated: 11:19 AM A Michigan Marine is greeted by family and friends as he's welcomed back from a second tour of duty.

Updated: 6:43 PM LCC leads the way in prepping auto mechanics to fix and maintain new trend in cars.

Updated: 6:10 PM Well, an FDA-approved procedure new to Lansing could eliminate the need for your glasses altogether.

Updated: 5:54 PM There’s good news from the Lansing Police Department as the city reviews its biannual FBI Uniform Crime Report.

Updated: 4:39 PM A desk, books, and computer equipment are among the items the student tossed out the window in an attempt to become famous.

Updated: 4:00 PM The Internet search giant wants to copy rare books in the University of Michigan library and put their contents online.

Updated: 4:00 PM The suburban Detroit studio where Eminem recorded his first big hit is up for sale.