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Two Pontiac-based nonprofits placed in this year's 10th Annual Art Van Charity Challenge.The Power Company Kids Club won second place with a prize of $50,000, and Humble Design won third place with a prize of $25,000.The Power Company Kids Club is a 501c3 which promotes the emotional, physical, spiritual and social well-being of at-risk children and adolescents in Michigan's inner cities.

As is the case with many women diagnosed with spontaneous coronary artery dissection, paramedics did not initially recognize the symptoms of an impending heart attack that Troy resident Monica Bales, 31, was experiencing.While shoveling snow this past winter, the single mother of then eight-week-old Isabella unexpectedly broke out into a cold sweat.

Two vehicles found burning early Tuesday morning in Pontiac were intentionally set on fire, according to the Oakland County Sheriff's Office.Deputies and firefighters were called to the 10 block of Ellwood Avenue shortly before 1:30 a.m. on a report of a vehicle fire, to find the two cars burning.

A suspect in an armed robbery in Pontiac was arrested Tuesday after a West Bloomfield police officer spotted him driving in that township and pulled him over shortly before 6 p.m.Assistant Police Chief Curt Lawson said the officer, relatively new to the force, was responding to a "be on the lookout" alert issued by the Oakland County Sheriff's Office, which included a description of the suspect's vehicle and license plate.

The Farmington Hills Treasury Division is now accepting in-person credit and debit card payments for the following:. Auction payments. Birth and death certificates. Dog licenses. Freedom of Information Act fees. Permits and licenses. Other miscellaneous fees and servicesProperty taxes may still be paid with a debit or credit card from July 1 through February 28.

The Road Commission for Oakland County has issued a permit to Consumers Energy to close Allen Road between Cranberry Lake Road and Hubbard Road in Independence Township for gas service installation work.The closure will take place on Saturday, June 2. The detour for through traffic is Cranberry Lake Road to M-15 to Hubbard, back to Allen Road and vice versa.

An Oakland County man and his estate sales business have been charged with stealing more than $60,000, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette announced Tuesday.Ronald Robling and his business, R&S Resale LLC, face 13 counts of embezzlement by an agent or trustee and one count of conducting a criminal enterprise.

After being denied the first two tries, Oakland County is giving it a third, and final, shot. In March, The State of Michigan rejected the county's $8.

Royal Oak High School students celebrated their senior prom on Thursday, May 24. The prom was held at the Shenandoah Country Club, 5600 Walnut Lake Rd, in West Bloomfield Township.See all 145 photos at Media.

Rahul Reddy, an eighth-grader from Rochester, correctly spelled "beatific" in the first round of competition Tuesday, May 29, at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., qualifying him to compete in a second round on Wednesday.The word, according to Merriam-Webster online, means:.