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From the HERE City State DeskCEDAR PARK, Texas — Fourth-ranked Michigan State heads to Texas this weekend for one of the most talent-heavy college hockey games ever scheduled, taking on No. 8 North Dakota in Saturday night's U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame showcase. Puck drop is set for 7:07 p.m.…
From the HERE City State DeskPISCATAWAY, N.J. — Michigan goes looking for its first Big Ten road victory of the season Saturday when the Wolverines visit Rutgers at SHI Stadium, a building where they have rarely struggled. Kickoff is 12:30 p.m. Eastern, with the game on BTN and streaming on…
From the HERE City National DeskATLANTA, Ga. — The Atlanta Dream host Golden State in Game 6 of the WNBA Finals on Thursday, with a 12:30 p.m. ET start at State Farm Arena, a workday tipoff the team’s owners have publicly blamed on the league. In a letter to fans…
From the HERE City National DeskATHENS, Ga. — Georgia men’s basketball tips off its season Monday night at Stegeman Coliseum against North Carolina Central, the first step in a push for a third NCAA Tournament bid in a row. Tipoff is set for 7:30 p.m. Eastern. Coach Mike White enters…
From the HERE City National DeskRALEIGH, N.C. — NC State will put up the money, facilities and NIL backing its next football coach needs, according to a letter to fans released Wednesday under the names of Boo Corrigan, the athletics director, and Chancellor Kevin Howell, days after the school fired…
From the HERE City National DeskGREEN BAY, Wis. — Two teams coming off losses meet Thursday night at Lambeau Field, where the Carolina Panthers try to stay above .500 against a Green Bay Packers club that has its own list of injuries to manage. Carolina arrives on a short week…
From the HERE City National DeskIRVING, Texas — The Big 12 Conference on Wednesday hit UCF with a $100,000 fine after a group of Knights fans aimed chants at BYU and its sponsoring Latter-day Saints church before last Saturday’s football game in Orlando, which UCF won in overtime. The league…
From the HERE City National DeskPHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley has given up his ownership stake in Polymarket, saying NFL rules no longer let players hold a piece of prediction-market companies. Barkley said the league briefs players ahead of every season on which endorsements and investments…
From the HERE City National DeskNEW YORK, N.Y. — With the World Series decided, Major League Baseball moved into its offseason Thursday, and the calendar between now and December is packed because a labor shutdown could stop the hot stove cold. Players with at least six years of service became…
From the HERE City National DeskATLANTA, Ga. — Ernie Johnson, the host who has anchored Inside the NBA since 1990, said Wednesday that the 2026-27 season will be his last at the desk. Johnson, 70, shared the decision in a video on social media and stressed that it was his…
From the HERE City National DeskPHOENIX, Ariz. — Phoenix’s first turn hosting the NCAA Women’s Final Four pumped $71.5 million into the Arizona economy, researchers at Arizona State’s Seidman Research Institute concluded. The results were released Wednesday. Researchers surveyed out-of-state fans in person at the April 3 and April 5…
From the HERE City National DeskBOSTON, Mass. — Roughly three of every four retired NFL players who died from 2008 through 2023 had the brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, according to a population-wide estimate released Wednesday by a Boston University-led research team. The researchers put the figure at 74.5%. CTE,…
From the HERE City State Desk
MARQUETTE, Mich. — Four public universities that serve large stretches of rural Michigan are asking state lawmakers to let their two-year students use the free tuition program now reserved for community and tribal colleges. Ferris State, Northern Michigan, Lake Superior State and Michigan Technological are the only schools among Michigan's…
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SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Five more Michigan schools are getting hands-on manufacturing programs, paid for with state career and technical education money and run with SME, the Southfield-based manufacturing association. High schools in Brown City, Clintondale and Bentley will launch SME PRIME programs, which supply shop equipment, curriculum, teacher training and…
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EAST LANSING, Mich. — A second elected member of the Michigan State University Board of Trustees has gone to federal court over the board's rewritten ethics code, arguing it punishes trustees for publicly disagreeing with the majority and campus leadership. Balow brought his case Wednesday in the federal court that…
Business
NORTHVILLE, Mich. — Electric customers in Northville have a stake in a fight playing out before state regulators, where Oakland County is pressing to block or sharply trim the 9.7% average residential increase DTE Electric wants. In a brief filed Tuesday, Oct. 27, with the Michigan Public Service Commission, the…
From the HERE City National Desk
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Alphabet shares were down about 11% before the opening bell Thursday after the Google parent fell short of Wall Street forecasts on both sales and profit for the first time in nearly four years and reported that its massive artificial intelligence buildout pushed free cash flow…
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WASHINGTON — Filling a trick-or-treat bowl costs noticeably more this year. Federal price data show candy and gum up 7.7% from a year ago and more than 18% over two years, a faster climb than food prices overall. Chocolate is the main driver. Poor weather in cocoa-growing regions of West…
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URDA, Spain — Investigators in Spain are focusing on a decision made inside a Madrid rail control room after a high-speed train plowed into the back of a stopped train Wednesday morning in the central province of Toledo, killing 68 people in the country's second deadly high-speed crash this year.…
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MCMINNVILLE, Ore. — Three people died Thursday afternoon after two helicopters collided in the air and fell into a farm field a few miles from McMinnville Municipal Airport, according to the Yamhill County Sheriff's Office. The crash happened around 2 p.m. southeast of the city, close to where Southeast Stringtown…
From the HERE City State Desk
LANSING, Mich. — A Republican lawmaker has filed a bill to stop Michigan from collecting its new 24% wholesale tax on marijuana for 12 months, reopening a fight over a levy that was written to help pay for road repairs. State Rep. Jay DeBoyer, who is also his party's nominee…
From the HERE City State Desk
LANSING, Mich. — More than 1.7 million Michiganders had already voted by Thursday, five days before the Nov. 3 general election, according to the latest count from the Michigan Secretary of State. The state tallied 1,704,715 ballots, which works out to 23% of the 7,412,507 active registered voters. Returned absentee…
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LANSING, Mich. — Michigan has signed on to a multistate lawsuit that seeks to restore federal rules forcing companies to disclose who really owns them, Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Thursday. Twenty states and the District of Columbia filed the case Oct. 27 against the U.S. Treasury Department and its…
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LANSING, Mich. — Michiganders who buy their own health coverage will see an average 14.2% price increase for 2027, and small businesses face an average 9.6% jump, under rates approved by state insurance regulators ahead of open enrollment that begins Sunday, Nov. 1. Regulators at the state Department of Insurance…
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