The Oakland Press

Fall audition sign ups for the Oakland Youth Orchestras 2018-2019 season begins Aug. 10. Auditions will be held from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 28 at Oakland University's Varner Hall, 371 Varner Drive.Sign ups begin online at oyomi.org and extend through Aug.

A new exhibit at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills features rare film footage of the liberation of concentration camps, mass burials during World War II."Filming the Camps: From Hollywood to Nuremberg" opens Thursday, July 26 and runs through Dec.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Sergio Marchionne, a charismatic and demanding CEO who engineered two long-shot corporate turnarounds to save carmakers Fiat and Chrysler from near-certain failure, died Wednesday. He was 66.The holding company of Fiat's founders, the Agnelli family, announced Marchionne had died after unexpected complications from surgery in Zurich.

A $300 million mixed-use development featuring a hotel and waterpark could be coming to Wixom. According to Crain's, Damas Group LLC., purchased 82 acres of land, just north of I-696 along Beck Road, for $3.

A 68-year-old Bloomfield Hills woman who police say was wanted for stealing three times at an area Target store apparently pressed her luck by allegedly trying to do it again, and wound up arrested on July 21.The woman was caught allegedly attempting to steal $19.43 of merchandise from the store at 1301 Coolidge Highway in Troy, but was stopped by a loss prevention officer before she could get away with the goods, police said.

Twice a month at Catholic Charities of Southeast Michigan's office in Pontiac, something special happens between a group of college students and local youth. Medical students from Oakland University's William Beaumont School of Medicine sit in a classroom, where they meet with kids ranging in age from nine to 17-years-old who are a part of the Hispanic and Newcomer Outreach Ministry.

The Pontiac man charged with accidentally shooting to death his teen cousin, and who's also facing drugs and weapons charges, has been bound over to Oakland County Circuit Court.Damari Edward Mahone, 20, waived his right to a preliminary exam Tuesday before Judge Cynthia Thomas Walker of Pontiac's 50th District Court, who sent the case on for trial.

Dr. Thaddeus C. Radzilowski, of Farmington Hills, president of the Piast Institute, a national research center devoted to Polish and Polish-American affairs, died Friday, July 20 at age 80.Visitation will be from 3 p.m.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The owner of the Howell-based Diamond's Steaks and Seafood restaurant is ready to open a second location in downtown Royal Oak now that his plan of operation has been approved by the city."We plan to have a destination restaurant in Royal Oak," said Adam Merkel.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Police have arrested an Ohio man wanted in connection with a baseball bat attack on a resident who took him into his Lake Orion home last month, reportedly as a gesture of kindness.