6:38 am
Mon March 11, 2013

Michigan veterans fight to pay in-state college tuition after serving overseas

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University of Michigan officials say residency guidelines are required of all students to qualify to pay in-state tuition
Dearborn - After Brian Stone graduated from Dearborn High School, he moved to Florida, then lived in Japan, Thailand, Russia and other countries while serving in the Navy. After four years of service, he returned to his home state last year and enrolled at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, only to learn he was classified as an out-of-state resident.
6:27 am
Mon March 11, 2013

Holland Hospital hopes to add more office space

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Hospital officials say recent growth makes the new office building necessary
Holland Hospital later this month will seek approval by the city's planning commission to construct a single-story, 33,000-square-foot office building on the hospital's campus. Hospital spokesman Tim Breed said the facility would be used primarily for physician office space. In the last few years, he said, the hospital has experienced significant growth in the number of physicians on staff.
6:21 am
Mon March 11, 2013

Portage considering new rules on donation boxes

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Ordinance is being considered after large growth in donation boxes since August of last year.
  • Source: Mlive
  • | Via: Kalamazoo Gazette
PORTAGE, MI - Regulations controlling the proliferation of donation boxes in Portage are up for a public hearing at Tuesday's Portage City Council meeting. The donation box ordinance amendment has been discussed since last fall and went through Planning Commission hearings and approval.
Strange News
6:09 am
Mon March 11, 2013

Widow Sues Church Over Sports-Themed Headstone

Originally published on Mon March 11, 2013 7:23 am

An Indiana woman wanted to honor her late husband with a headstone shaped like a couch, and featuring Indianapolis Colts and NASCAR logos. St. Joseph's Catholic Church said the headstone is completely inappropriate — so the widow sued.

All Tech Considered
5:10 am
Mon March 11, 2013

Controlling Your Computer With A Wave Of Your Hand

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Festival attendees experiment with Leap Motion technology.

Originally published on Mon March 11, 2013 8:48 am

If you've had wrist and shoulder pain from clicking a mouse, relief may be in sight. This spring, a new motion sensing device will go on sale that will make it possible for the average computer user to browse the Web and open documents with a wave of a finger.

The Leap Motion Controller is on display at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, Texas, for the first time. It's one of the most talked about startups at the conference, where some 26,000 people have gathered to see emerging tech companies.

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Art & Design
5:10 am
Mon March 11, 2013

For John Baldessari, Conceptual Art Means Serious Mischief

Originally published on Tue March 12, 2013 2:14 pm

Shots - Health News
5:10 am
Mon March 11, 2013

New Voices For The Voiceless: Synthetic Speech Gets An Upgrade

Originally published on Wed March 13, 2013 1:23 pm

Ever since she was a small child, Samantha Grimaldo has had to carry her voice with her.

Grimaldo was born with a rare disorder, Perisylvian syndrome, which means that though she's physically capable in many ways, she's never been able to speak. Instead, she's used a device to speak. She types in what she wants to say, and the device says those words out loud. Her mother, Ruane Grimaldo, says that when Samantha was very young, the voice she used came in a heavy gray box.

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It's All Politics
9:51 pm
Sun March 10, 2013

For Some Conservatives, It's Homecoming Week

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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., last year.

Originally published on Mon March 11, 2013 7:23 am

The American conservative movement has its homecoming this week: the Conservative Political Action Conference, where everyone from politicians to peddlers is out to inspire the faithful.

Last year, one of the headline speakers was former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who harked back to the second-ever CPAC in 1975, when Ronald Reagan laid out a vision for a conservative Republican Party.

She invoked his image of a banner of bold colors, not pale pastels.

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Law
7:35 pm
Sun March 10, 2013

Once On Death Row, He Now Fights To Defeat The Death Penalty

Maryland is about to become the 18th state to abolish the death penalty.

A bill has passed the state Senate and is expected to pass the House of Delegates easily with the governor's ardent support. The strongest advocate to end the death penalty in Maryland is Kirk Bloodsworth, who was convicted of murder in that state in 1985 and was the first person in the U.S. to be sentenced to death row then exonerated by DNA evidence.

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Author Interviews
5:01 pm
Sun March 10, 2013

A Twin Carries On Alone In 'Her: A Memoir'

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Christa and Cara Parravani were identical twins. When they were 28, Cara died of a drug overdose, and Christa spiraled into depression.

In her new book, Her: A Memoir, Christa explores their bond of sisterhood, which went beyond blood into the elliptical world of twinhood.

Both were artists, one a writer and the other a photographer. Both married young. Both lived through a hardscrabble childhood with a troubled mother. But Cara's path diverged after she was attacked and raped at age 24.

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