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"You never know where the day will lead you when you walk out of roll call," according to a post on the Troy Police Department's Facebook page.On Saturday, June 30, officers were led to a gas station on John R Road, where a parrot -- more specifically, a sun conure -- landed on a man's shoulder while he was pumping gas.

Photographer Jamie Limbright got her start shooting concerts, but eventually found pleasure in capturing just about anything around her through her lens."I was introduced to photography in college when I was working as a music journalist for an online publication," the Wixom resident says. "After I photographed my first concert, I was addicted to photography.

The father and son operators of a New Baltimore market got a split decision last week at a trial for their actions during an altercation over parking outside their store.Anthony Grillo, 45, was convicted of a lesser charge, misdemeanor aggravated assault by a jury Friday for starting

Eric Champnella calls "Alex and Me," which he wrote and directed, his "best work yet."Empowering and inspiring children to believe in their dreams, the movie features soccer star and Olympic gold medalist Alex Morgan, whom Champnella says is the type of person he wants his own 10-year-old daughter to look to for inspiration.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) - Last fall, Melissa Wriggelsworth said she spent some of her own paycheck to purchase binders for all 18 of her students.It was a familiar sacrifice for the 49-year-old who taught at the Lansing Public School District for 20 years. She said that despite a superb teaching staff, schools had been "cash-strapped" and "we were always putting out fires.

LANSING (AP) - Michigan voters who twice delivered the governorship to a Republican computer executive-turned-venture capitalist are again being wooed by a wealthy outsider businessman with no political experience for the top post - this time a Democrat.Shri Thanedar, who was unknown until six months ago, has spent millions of his fortune on TV ads in which he pokes fun at mispronunciations of his name, touts policy prescriptions like single-payer health care and, in recent days, jokes that some of the state's potholes are so big "you can see them from space.

You never quite know what you're going to get from Neil Young at any given moment -- which is both frustrating and, more often, intriguing.It's already been a busy year for Young, who starred in his girlfriend Daryl Hannah's Netflix film "Paradox" and composed and released a soundtrack album to accompany it.

Chad Grigsby emerged victorious Sunday in the Fishing League Worldwide Tour presented by Mercury bass fishing season finale Sunday at Lake St. Clair Metropark in Harrison Township and taking home a $125,000 check with him.Grigsby, 45, of Maple Grove, Minn., brought a five-bass limit of smallmouth weighing 26 pounds, 4 ounces to the scale on Sunday.

Clinton Township police are investigating a hit and run fatal accident involving a white truck and a pedestrian.The incident occurred on southbound Gratiot Avenue near Wellington Crescent at 12:23 a.m. Monday, police said. According to police, a white truck was traveling south on Gratiot in the left lane when it struck the pedestrian who was crossing the road from the west side of the road to the east.

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump's national security adviser said Sunday the U.S. has a plan that would lead to the dismantling of North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs in a year.John Bolton said top U.S. diplomat Mike Pompeo will be discussing that plan with North Korea in the near future.