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  • Jackson City Police Officer Killed

    COLDWATER(WTVB) -- A Jackson city Police officer was shot and killed early today while investigating a domestic dispute. Authorities say 26-year-old Officer James Bonneau was shot by 63-year-old Elvin Potts around 12:30 this morning. Bonneau and Blackman Township Police officer 22-year old Darrin McIntosh ... More

  • Reinvent Michigan Tour Comes To Kalamazoo

    KALAMAZOO (WKZO) -- Ann Arbor businessman Rick Snyder says running for Governor was his wife’s idea. He says he was happy making new companies, but he says many of the same techniques can be applied to Government. He brought his “Reinvent Michigan Tour” to Kalamazoo ... More

  • Four Men May Be Responsible For Kalamazoo Crime Spree

    KALAMAZOO (WKZO) -- Portage police are reporting a brazen mugging that took place in the 4700 block of Fox Valley Drive. Two men just pulling into a carport were approached by a black male who jumped in the back seat and claimed to have a gun ... More

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  • Fatal Accident Being Investigated In Van Buren County

    VAN BUREN COUNTY (WKZO) -- Tests will be conducted on the body of a driver who was killed last evening when he clipped an ambulance on M-43, and rammed three more vehicles over a distance of several miles before flipping his Saturn Vue at a high ... More

  • Teen Charged In Murder of Grandfather

    NILES TOWNSHIP (WKZO) -- While questions still swirl as to why a Niles teenager may have shot his grandfather, the young suspect has been formally charged. Berrien County Judge Scott Schofield set bond at $100,000. Fourteen -year-old Dakotah Eliason appeared in court by video conferencing ... More

  • Hoekstra Says Democrats Are In Too Big A Hurry

    KALAMAZOO (WKZO) -- President Obama is making one last push to get his healthcare reform plan through Congress, saying that the republican alternative to push it through piece by piece will mean true reform will never happen. After nearly a year of delay, and decades of ... More

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  • Kobe sinks Raptors as Lakers end losing run

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kobe Bryant delivered yet another game-winning shot to help the Los Angeles Lakers snap a three-game losing streak with a 109-107 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday. Bryant netted 32 points and made a fade-away 17-foot jump shot along the baseline ... More

  • BofA ending overdraft fees on debit cards

    NEW YORK/CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Bank of America said on Tuesday it will no longer charge overdraft fees on debit card purchases as of this summer, a move that may cost millions in fee income. The change will eliminate one of the most common ... More

  • NY state debt in red zone, should cut $20 billion: study

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - The $120 billion that New York state owes in debt, health and pension benefits for public workers puts it in the danger zone, and getting down to the safety zone requires a $20 billion cut, a study said Tuesday. By this measure ... More

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  • UK proposes tougher steps on disclosing bankers' pay

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will on Wednesday propose to force banks to reveal how many of their staff earn top wages, in steps that go further than previous proposals, financial services minister Paul Myners said. The government's Walker review on bankers' pay had previously laid ... More

  • UK PM Brown warns of bumpy economic road ahead

    LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown sees risks to the economic recovery and says it is not the moment to change course as he prepares for an election by June. Brown, the former finance minister, will set out his views on how he thinks ... More

  • Economists trim 2011 U.S. growth forecast

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. economists raised their forecast for economic growth in 2010 in March, the third straight monthly rise, while trimming their growth forecast for 2011, according to a survey released on Wednesday. Economists surveyed earlier this month in the Blue Chip Economic Indicators ... More

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  • U.S. general's Kyrgyz visit rivals Russian influence

    BISHKEK (Reuters) - U.S. General David Petraeus arrived in Kyrgyzstan on Wednesday, a day after the United States said it would build an anti-terrorism training center for the former Soviet republic in Central Asia. Both the United States and Russia have military air bases in ... More

  • NY gov says may seek extra power to cut spending

    ALBANY (Reuters) - New York Governor David Paterson on Tuesday said the multi-year deficit-closing plan his lieutenant governor is devising might seek to give governors "extra authority" to cut over-spending. New York's financial situation will worsen over the next five years because spending is expected ... More

  • Biden raises concern about Iranian "dictatorship"

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Joe Biden said on Tuesday the United States is concerned that Iran is becoming more of a military dictatorship and insisted that Tehran will not be permitted to acquire a nuclear weapon. Biden also said he was unsure how much power ... More

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  • China plans new trade office as global disputes grow: sources

    BEIJING/GENEVA (Reuters) - China is setting up a new agency to help streamline its trade negotiating bureaucracy as the world's third-largest economy faces a growing number of commercial disputes. The new China Trade Representative office (CTR) will absorb a tangle of offices that have ... More

  • China's Geely secures financing to buy Volvo: report

    STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The parent of China's Geely Automobile <0175.HK> has secured financing to buy Ford-owned Volvo cars for about 15 billion Swedish crowns ($2.10 billion), a Swedish business daily reported on Wednesday. Dagens Industri, citing sources, said that Chinese financial institutions and ... More

  • Strong China trade data make case for firmer yuan

    BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese exports and imports grew faster than expected in February, underlining the momentum behind the world's third-largest economy and reinforcing the case for a rise in the yuan. Economists cautioned against over-interpreting the figures, skewed because of the timing of the long ... More

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  • Charlie Sheen returning to work next Tuesday

    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Charlie Sheen is expected to return to work on CBS' "Two and a Half Men" on Tuesday, according to his publicist. The actor is said to be in the process of exiting the rehab facility he checked into February 23. On ... More

  • John Krasinski joins "Something" romantic comedies

    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - John Krasinski is in negotiations to join Ginnifer Goodwin in "Something Borrowed," a romantic comedy from the company behind "The Blind Side." Goodwin (HBO's "Big Love") stars as a Manhattan attorney, the consummate good girl, who falls in love with ... More

  • Simon & Garfunkel begin Canada trek next month

    By Michael D. Ayers NEW YORK (Billboard) - Canada, get ready: a few "Old Friends" are heading your way. Simon & Garfunkel have announced a string of arena dates that will take them to the northern parts of North America, kicking off in Vancouver on April 29 ... More

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  • FDA approves Botox to treat wrist, finger spasms

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Tuesday approved the use of Allergan Inc's wrinkle smoother Botox to treat spasms of the elbow, wrist and fingers in adults. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it approved the drug to treat spasticity in the ... More

  • Live kidney donors do not die sooner: study

    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Healthy Americans who donated a kidney were not at higher risk of dying afterward, which may reassure potential donors and help shorten the long waiting list for an organ, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. The conclusion was drawn from the 80,347 ... More

  • U.S. says "drugged driving" growing threat

    VIENNA (Reuters) - Motorists under the influence of drugs are a growing threat on U.S. roads, while the number who drink and drive has fallen thanks to education and law enforcement, a top U.S. drug control official said on Tuesday. The United States is ... More

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  • SpaceX aborts rocket engine test

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space Exploration Technologies aborted a test firing of its Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday, in what was to be a key milestone in its quest to fly cargo -- and eventually astronauts -- to the International Space Station. The test was aborted two ... More

  • Scientists say UK risks losing innovation edge

    LONDON (Reuters) - Britain risks decades of slow economic decline unless it invests heavily in research, which at the moment is one of the country's few genuine areas of economic competitive advantage, leading scientists said on Tuesday. The Royal Society, an influential science academy whose ... More

  • Big Bang experiment may reveal dark universe: CERN

    GENEVA (Reuters) - Dark matter, which scientists believe makes up 25 percent of the universe but whose existence has never been proven, could be detected by the giant particle collider at CERN, the research center's head said Monday. Rolf-Dieter Heuer told a news conference some ... More

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  • Chinese group files complaint over "faulty" HP laptops

    SHANGHAI (Reuters) - More than 100 Chinese consumers have filed an official complaint against Hewlett-Packard Co over faulty laptop computers, leaving the door open for a lawsuit against the U.S. technology company, a lawyer for the group said on Wednesday. Jiang Suhua, a lawyer at ... More

  • "Logorama" duo take aim at "Ghost Recon" videogame

    LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The directors behind the Oscar-winning animated short "Logorama," are moving into the live-action world -- but they aren't going Hollywood just yet. Francois Alaux and Herve de Crecy will do a 20-minute live-action film for the latest installment of Ubisoft's ... More

  • MySpace readies site overhaul to rekindle growth

    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - With shrinking audiences, deep layoffs and two management shake-ups, MySpace, the one-time leader in Internet social networking, has had a rocky year. Mike Jones, who took over as co-president last month with Jason Hirschhorn, said that even within MySpace some employees have ... More

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  • Kobe sinks Raptors as Lakers end losing run

    LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Kobe Bryant delivered yet another game-winning shot to help the Los Angeles Lakers snap a three-game losing streak with a 109-107 victory over the Toronto Raptors on Tuesday. Bryant netted 32 points and made a fade-away 17-foot jump shot along the baseline ... More

  • World Cup mascot row is political football: China firm

    BEIJING (Reuters) - The Chinese company ordered to stop making soccer World Cup mascots because of poor working conditions in their factory hit back at the accusations on Wednesday, saying they were victims of South African politicking. FIFA's branding company Global Brands Group (GBG) said ... More

  • Samuelsson hat-trick lifts Canucks over Avalanche

    DENVER (Reuters) - Mikael Samuelsson's hat-trick inspired a stirring fightback for the Vancouver Canucks in a 6-4 victory over Northwest Division rivals the Colorado Avalanche on Tuesday. The Canucks trailed 3-0 in the second before Samuelsson tallied three times in 12 minutes to pull the ... More

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