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Keith Romer has been a contributing reporter for Planet Money since 2015. He has reported stories on risk-pooling among poker players, whether it's legal to write a spin-off of the children's book ...

A former resident of Kalamazoo is suing the city for failing to address a public health hazard linked to hydrogen sulfide ...

Dry January is the practice of not drinking for the first month of the new year. But where did the practice come from?

Benefits for unemployed workers in Michigan will increase again to as much as $530 a week as part of step-wise increases in ...

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to legal scholar and former federal prosecutor Barbara McQuade about the Trump administration investigating a YouTube content creator's claims of daycare fraud in Minnesota.

On this day in 2015, Richard Bernstein became Michigan Supreme Court's first blind justice. In 1954, the MSU Spartans won their first Rose Bowl. In 1989, The Temptations were inducted into the Rock ...

A Wayne County man who was charged after allegedly threatening violence at a school argues the law violates his free speech ...

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County prosecutors are running out of time to make key decisions for people serving life without parole for crimes they ...