Macomb County | featured news

You are in a dark theatre. What you think you are doing and what you really are experiencing are quite different. Your brain tells you that you are engrossed in a mystery movie with a smart detective facing off a crafty murderer. The reality is that a projector sends film, frame by frame behind a lens; some light flashes through the frame unto the screen; it quickly moves onto another frame.

It's campaign season in Michigan, in case you haven't noticed. And candidates for governor and the Legislature - especially Democrats - are blaming their Republican colleagues for many of the woes in education. But as this latest budget shows, GOP lawmakers just approved the largest single-year budget increase for schools in 15 years, after previous years of boosting funding for public schools.

One thing I've come to realize over the years is that all people of fame, wealth, or power are, in the end, people too. Whether CEO or politician, actor or famed scientist, they go about their days like many of us do, experience the ups and downs, run errands, and eat.A person of current public attention in the United States last Friday decided to eat dinner at a small restaurant in Lexington, Virginia.

Some parents will do anything to get their kids into the college of their dreams. They think it's totally normal to spend thousands of dollars on tutors, SAT prep and college-essay advisors, and to use whatever influence they have to get an edge. In some circles, not trying to game the system is even seen as parental failure.

These bars are decorated in the style of a classic summer holiday dessert (red, white and blue!), but they are easier to assemble and transport.You can make them in one regular-size rimmed baking sheet (called a half-sheet) or in two quarter-size baking sheets. When you're serving them outdoors, keep the pans cool by stacking two of them, with ice packs or zip-top bags packed with ice in between.

Burgers and dogs may be the traditional staples of a cookout, but when you're craving something more than meat on bun, a well-assembled skewer is a colorful showstopper on the grill. It's scientifically* proven that food tastes better when it's served on a stick, especially when that stick features alternating bites of grilled, spicy chicken and sweet, fruity goodness.

Whoever first decided it was not only acceptable but classy to throw a bunch of cheese bits and snacks on a board deserves credit for simultaneously pulling off what may have been both the greatest scam and invention in the history of entertaining.Sure, you might want to invest in fresh cheese if you're having friends over, but you can pull together the rest of a great board using mostly what you already may have in your refrigerator or freezer.

As a first-generation Iraqi-American immigrant, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha knows the pain of discrimination. As a pediatrician, she knows children must be protected for the sake of our nation's future.That's why this crusading doctor brought the crisis in Flint to national attention when she learned that poor children there were being poisoned by lead in their city's tap water.

A suspect was arrested last week in relation to an alleged package theft case in Chesterfield Township, police said.Shortly before 3:30 p.m. June 19, an unknown female pulled into a resident's driveway, exited her car and took a recently delivered Amazon package from the porch of the home.The female placed the package inside of her vehicle and drove off.

The owner of the Flamingo Motel has ended the last of his long-standing legal battles with authorities by pleading no contest to a lesser theft charge and receiving a sentence of time-served in jail.Eric Gala earlier this month pleaded no contest in Macomb County Circuit Court to embezzlement of between $200 and $1,000 from a vulnerable adult for stealing from his late mother, Norma.