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Rochester Hills will host a "Gardening and Landscaping with Deer" seminar on June 21. The event will take place at 7 p.m. in the city hall auditorium, 1000 Rochester Hills Drive.Participants will share techniques for managing gardens to minimize the impacts of deer. "We have many tips to share to keep your yard from becoming a critter snack," said Rochester Hills naturalist Lance DeVoe.

The body of a Royal Oak woman missing since Tuesday has been found and police say they don't believe another person was involved in her death. "There's no foul play suspected," Royal Oak Police Lt. Keith Spencer said Friday morning. "Her body was found near her vehicle."Holly Towery, 32, a mother of three, was living at her boyfriend Allen Reinwasser's house in Royal Oak at the time of her death.

The Rochester Hills Public Library has partnered with the Village of Rochester Hills to offer a series of interactive story times, starting June 25 at 11 a.m. Lead by an RHPL librarian, the story times will include early literacy practices like reading, writing, talking and singing, which are designed to nurture literacy skills.

The Birmingham Shopping District's popular movie night series returns to the great outdoors on June 22, July 20 and August 24.Families are invited to find a cozy spot at Booth Park, on the west side of North Old Woodward, just south of Harmon Street, and enjoy a movie under the stars. Pre-show entertainment begins at 7:30 p.

Three McLaren hospitals in the county are now offering low-dose CT scan screenings to detect early signs of lung cancer. Lung cancer is most treatable when detected early, according to the hospital, while the low-dose scan exposes the patient to less radiation than traditional scans. The low-dose scan takes about 20-seconds.

Vice President Mike Pence will visit Oakland County on Friday. Pence will make stops in Birmingham and Rochester before departing for Ohio later in the afternoon. The vice president will visit Birmingham to attend a private campaign fundraiser for Michigan Attorney General, and gubernatorial candidate,

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development sent a 20-page letter to Oakland County officials in April expressing concerns about how their housing policies were "non-compliant" and "discriminatory." As first reported by

The Edge Fitness Clubs, an East Coast fitness chain, will be locating in a long-shuttered Kohl's store in Farmington Hills.Nicholas Shango, the owner of the West River Shopping Center, plans to bring The Edge to the strip mall on Grand River Avenue near Middlebelt Road,

An Oakland County jury is expected to begin deliberations Friday in the murder case of Donna Pesserl, shot to death in West Bloomfield and left in a car set on fire at the former Pine Lake Elementary School.DeSean Smith, 20 of Detroit, is charged with homicide, arson and having a firearm in the commission of a felony in the Dec.

Airway Lanes in Waterford will be closing by the end of the month. The bowling alley recently made the announcement on its Facebook page that it would close up shop on Saturday, June 30.