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Nothing Bundt Cakes has opened in Troy, featuring bundt cakes, made with real eggs, butter and cream cheese and topped with thick frosting petals or drizzle frosting. Jazmyn Jones is the owner of the Troy franchise location, at 780 E. Big Beaver in Troy.Nothing Bundt Cakes is based in Addison, Texas with locations across the country.

A career criminal convicted of unarmed robbery in Ferndale a few years ago is back in court on charges he tried to steal money from a restaurant in the city seven weeks after he was paroled from prison.At the time of the crime in 2015 he had been on parole for only nine days.Alfonso Andrews, 51, of Pontiac is due in Ferndale 43rd District Court on Thursday for a hearing on a charge of larceny from a person.

Emily Hollenberg of Southfield has joined Transitions Legal of Birmingham, as an associate attorney. Hollenberg is a member of the State Bar of Michigan and the Washington, D.C. bar. Hollenberg has worked for the international law firm Dechert in London, England; the U.

James Parks, partner at Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, P.C., was recently elected president of the Oakland County Bar Association.Parks is a member of Jaffe's Litigation and Employment & Labor Practice Groups with more than 38 years experience in complex litigation, traditional labor and employment law.

There's a new program coming to Oakland University that would shorten the path to a law degree. Through a new agreement with the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, Oakland University is launching "3+3." Students can earn both a bachelor's degree and a law degree in six years. That processes usually takes seven years, according to the university.

Oakland County is putting school safety resources in the palm of your hand. As part of its annual gun safety press conference, which focuses on responsible gun ownership and the launch of its Lock-It-Up initiative, the county will announce the formation of a

The Road Commission for Oakland County will begin a construction project on South Boulevard from Adams Road to Crooks Road on the Troy/Rochester Hills border on Wednesday, June 20.The $2.4 million project is funded by Troy, Rochester Hills, Oakland County general government and RCOC.The project includes:.

A new student art exhibition and competition is looking to use corporate dollars to support funding for art education in public schools. The competition, which offers students the chance to take part in a rotating corporate art exhibit and win money for their school's art departments, is a new partnership between Mahindra Automotive North America in Auburn Hills and Oakland Schools.

Equipment problems have caused a scattered power outages in the Detroit region on Monday afternoon as temperatures lingered in the low-90s.The largest outage was in Oakland County's Walled Lake, where power went out at 2:12 p.m. for 1,805 homes and businesses. The cause,

A woman who was found overdosed on heroin in her car over the weekend had her 3-year-old daughter with her, the Oakland County Sheriff's Office said Monday.Deputies and firefighters were called to the 2500 block of Mann Road in Independence Township shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday to find the 29-year-old Waterford resident unconscious and having shallow breathing.