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Those who know Jim Combs of Clarkston would say he is an honest man, but the FBI didn't know who he was.And still, they agreed.Not because he's senior pastor of the River Church, and as such expected to be a man of virtues, but based on his performance during their polygraph test."You must be a man of high integrity," said the FBI special agent examining his results during a demonstration for the FBI Detroit Citizens Academy.

UHY gives back for anniversaryUHY LLP. located in Sterling Heights, is celebrating their 50th anniversary and as part of the celebration, 50 different local charities will receive $1,000 donations. They are also sponsoring a temporary exhibit with twentieth century accounting artifacts at the Detroit Historical Society.

Every couple of years, you can count on a Ray LaMontagne album.With the exception of one four-year gap at the start of the 2010s, the Grammy Award-winning Massachusetts singer-songwriter has released something new on a two-year cycle -- this year's "Part of the Light" following 2016's acclaimed "Ouroboros" as a case in point.

It's perhaps not surprising that Jethro Tull is among the rock bands to reach a 50-year anniversary.The group, led these days by co-founder and frontman Ian Anderson, was inspired by blues, R&B, folk and jazz -- musics that by 1968 had already established career players who had decades of experience behind them.

Taking a dip in the water to beat the heat wasn't an option Saturday at Memorial Park Beach in St. Clair Shores.The park's beach along Lake St. Clair, just east of Jefferson Avenue at Masonic Boulevard, was closed Saturday to due high bacteria levels, according to the Macomb County Health Department.

FLW Tour pro Chad Grigsby of Maple Grove, Minnesota, brought another limit of smallmouth bass to the scale Friday -- this one weighing 24 pounds, 4 ounces -- to maintain his lead after Day Two of the FLW Tour at Lake St. Clair presented by Mercury. The 180-boat field is now cut to just the top 30, and Grigsby will start Saturday's Day Three of competition with a slim 4-ounce lead over Costa pro Dylan Hays of Sheridan, Arkansas (49-13), who sits in second.

DETROIT -- The union of Nick Lowe and Los Straitjackets seemed like a gimmick when the two acts first started performing a holiday show together back in late 2014.Now it's a dependable music highlight for both -- and, most importantly, for their fans.Related: See more photos from the showThe pair's first non-holiday tour stopped Friday night, June 29, at Saint Andrews Hall and was every bit, and possibly more, pleasing than the Quality Holiday Revue Lowe and Los Straitjackets have done for the past few years.

DEAR ABBY >> I'm 19 and my sister is 16. We have been working as prostitutes here in our state and in several nearby ones. We know we need help, but we are afraid to ask for it. Hotlines and trafficking programs have called the police on friends of ours who reached out for help. How can we get help without being forced to testify against my boyfriend and our other friends?- Teri DEAR TERI >> I'm glad you wrote because there is help for you.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Get involved in an unusual event or activity that will expose you to a whole new way of thinking. Cultural differences will spark your imagination and give rise to new beginnings. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Erratic decisions and inconsistency must not be allowed to consume you.

TORONTO >> Marcus Stroman pitched seven innings to get his first win this season, Justin Smoak hit a two-run home run and the Toronto Blue Jays beat Detroit 3-2 Friday, handing the struggling Tigers their 10th consecutive defeat.It's Detroit's longest losing streak since a 10-game skid from Sept.