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Record profits. Job openings. Shareholders making money. It's not what you might think in Michigan, home to the country's highest unemployment rate, but a century-old company is in robust health thanks to achy, thifty Americans.
Wal-Mart and two other top retailers said Friday they are suspending business with a large southwestern Michigan blueberry grower after investigators found children as young as 6 working in the grower's fields.
A Brooklyn, N.Y., artist has won the $250,000 top prize offered in a new art competition in Grand Rapids, Mich.
It is a museum show about office furniture as art — but with designs on being more.
Flying on Air Force One, eating meals prepared by the White House kitchen staff and drawing inspiration from his encounters with U.S. military personnel were among things former President George W. Bush missed since leaving office, he said Thursday.
Fire broke out early Saturday in a home in southwestern Michigan, killing four young children and critically injuring two people, authorities said.
Members of the public will use mobile devices and the Web to choose the winner of the first ArtPrize, which offers a top prize of $250,000.
Members of the public will use mobile devices and the Web to choose the winner of one of the largest art prizes ever offered at a new, annual event scheduled to be announced Thursday.
Jerry Sacharski crafted his first batting tee from metal piping, some pieces of rubber and part of a garden hose. Half a century later he still was coaching T-ball, a game that introduced baseball to millions of kids from backyards to the White House lawn.
After losing three-quarters of his apple crop to bad weather last year, Don Armock is more concerned about what Mother Nature has in store for his fruit business in 2009 than how the global recession might affect it.
Dow Chemical Co. reported a $1.55 billion fourth-quarter loss Tuesday as a deteriorating global economy led to a 23 percent drop in sales and huge job cuts.
A community activist who ran for Congress from prison, where he had been sent for warning that a judge could be tortured by God, can post bond while he appeals his conviction, an appeals court has ruled.
A "Harry Potter" fan and Web site operator said Friday he's publishing a different version of his Potter reference guide after losing a copyright-infringement lawsuit filed by the author of the massively popular book series.
The Rev. Edward Pinkney's congressional campaign has many obstacles to overcome, not the least of which is that he's currently behind bars.
A former environmental activist who committed arson at Michigan State University in 1999 and later became a government informant was sentenced Monday to nine years in prison.
Kellogg says its profit rose 3.7 percent in the second quarter as a result of product innovation and raising prices to offset higher costs. The cereal and snack maker met Wall Street's expectations.
Dow Chemical Co. said Thursday that despite record sales and two double-digit price increases unveiled in the second quarter, its profit for the period fell 27 percent, in large part because of sharply higher costs for energy and raw materials.
Household appliance maker Whirlpool Corp. said Wednesday its second-quarter profit fell 27 percent because of higher material and oil-related costs, and lower U.S. demand.
Artists from France — Monet, Renoir and Cezanne, to name a few — are most closely associated with the Impressionist style of painting because the beloved movement developed there in the late 19th century. But a new exhibition serves as a reminder that there were also some talented and important U.S. artists who embraced Impressionism.
Kellogg Co. reported Wednesday that its first-quarter profit dipped 2 percent, despite recent price increases intended to offset higher costs.
Whirlpool Corp. on Thursday reported a nearly 20 percent drop in first-quarter net income, citing high material costs and seven consecutive quarters of lower U.S. product demand.
Jim Koan has gone hog-wild in his battle against a beetle that threatens his 120-acre organic apple orchard.
Whirlpool Corp. said Tuesday its fourth-quarter profit climbed 72 percent, helped by its Maytag acquisition and an improved product mix and the weak dollar. The news sent the value of the company's shares soaring.
Cereal and snack maker Kellogg Co. said Wednesday its fourth-quarter profit dipped slightly due in part to higher energy and materials costs and more investment in advertising, but still matched Wall Street's expectations.
Dow Chemical Co. said Tuesday its fourth-quarter earnings fell 52 percent due to restructuring and a $1.7 billion rise in spending on materials and energy, the largest year-over-year cost increase in company history.
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