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Police were called to the 8000 block of MacArthur Boulevard in Superior Township just before noon Tuesday for a woman who had stab wounds.

For close to a decade, the Ann Arbor threesome Hoodang has been making fans with its blend of dark, driving, off-kilter alt-country music. The band writes songs of people tarnished by bad blood and bad luck who still find ways to make it through to the next town, day, marriage, con or bottle.

Superintendent Jeanice Kerr Swift speaks to Ann Arbor Public Schools teachers at a welcome back event Tuesday morning at Pioneer High School. Melanie Maxwell | AnnArbor.com

Ypsilanti Township could soon take legal action against a church if it doesn’t address a blighted home on its property.

At its Aug. 26 meeting, the Ypsilanti Township Board of Trustees unanimously approved staff's request to ask a judge, if necessary, to order the Word of Deliverance Church to bring the home up to code or demolish it.

In February of 2012, the former owners of two Ypsilanti Township trailer parks abandoned the sites and left the township and county to foot the bill for the cleanup.

Earlier this month, a Washtenaw County Circuit Court judge ordered the three owners to pay the township back $92,000 and pay the Washtenaw County Treasurer's Office $12,000 for the cleanup effort and cost of paying emergency utility bills.

The members of The Appleseed Collective are young people who evidently have old souls - at least when it comes to music.

The group members range in age from 23 to 27 years old, but their musical passion is for vintage styles, most of which date back to the first half of the 20th century - the Gypsy jazz / hot jazz of the 1930s - ‘40s, Dixieland, ragtime, bluegrass, swing, jazz standards of the ‘30s and ‘40s, etc.

Artwork displayed at the new Dancing Dog gallery in downtown Ann ArborCourtney Sacco | AnnArbor.com

Tuesday marks the first day on the job for the new superintendent of Ann Arbor Public Schools, Jeanice Kerr Swift.

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A woman on Woodlawn Avenue said this pile of old furniture, shown here on Monday, had been sitting at the curb since last week in violation of city code.Ryan J. Stanton | AnnArbor.com

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