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Sam Shepard was both a prize-winning playwright and an an acclaimed actor. He won a Pulitzer for Drama for Buried Child in 1979 and wrote more than 40 other plays as well as short stories and essays. He died Thursday at his home in Kentucky of complications from Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 73.

Saudi Arabia and Qatar have ramped up their lobbying efforts to gain international support in their 2-month-old feud. That includes TV attack ads, and flooding online media sites with competing messages.

Y Combinator, an influential startup incubator, sends its entrepreneurs a form to report sexual harassment. Such reports influence which venture capitalists get invited to its prestigious Demo Day.

(MPRN-Lansing) The state needs to improve its oversight when it comes to the Flint water crisis. That is a finding by the Michigan Auditor General…

The first woman to lead the Coast Guard district that covers the Great Lakes is retiring Wednesday.In the two years Rear Admiral June Ryan has been…

(MPRN-Lansing) People in four Michigan counties can now ask the federal government for disaster assistance. That’s after severe storms caused flood damage…

Ronnie James Dio has been dead for seven years but his music lives on. And now he's going on tour. He'll be performing as a hologram along with his old bandmates.

Small-business owners are among those who say indecision is damaging the economy as they wait for new rules governing a post-Brexit U.K.

U.S. House Appropriations Committee makes a move to keep funding for Great Lakes restoration. Trump administration proposes cuts to university…

An advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration recommends the agency, for the first time, approve a new kind of treatment that uses genetically modified immune cells to attack cancer cells.