BATTLE CREEK - If you used a credit or debit card to buy food, beverages, or retail goods at the FireKeepers Casino Hotel between Sept. 7, 2014, and April 25, 2015, your personal data is at risk. FireKeepers said some 85,000 cards may have been hacked. An investigation showed someone gained unauthorized access to the
DETROIT - Payment kiosks installed in March 2014 at the State of Michigan's 36th District Court in Detroit will begin accepting payment for misdemeanors in the second half of 2015. The equipment was installed by Global Tel Link, which provides technology for the public safety and justice sector. "GTL does the heavy lifting to ensure
GRAND RAPIDS - The Michigan Women's Foundation is seeking applicants for the 2015 Entrepreneur You competitions for business plans and pitches, an annual event for women entrepreneurs in the state. Applicants have until 5 p.m. July 13 to apply for either the Grand Rapids or Southeast Michigan competitions, where they can win cash and professional
LANSING - Some of the changes the state has made spending tens of millions of dollars upgrading computer systems may not have gone smoothly, but some praise the upgrades. Dominic Perone, an inspector for the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, said the EZAM and Exam-Hand software the department has been using for grain dealers
LANSING - The Center for American Progress Action Fund ranked Michigan 28th of the 50 states and Washington, D.C., for voter access to polls and for their effective representation in its Health of State Democracies Report. Michigan was among 15 states getting failing grades (and ranked 48th) for accessibility for not having pre-registration for teens
LANSING - With legislative packages to update the state's energy laws in both the Michigan House and Senate, Michigan House Speaker Kevin Cotter said he expects movement by the fall. "The timeline has stretched out a bit," he said. Cotter said it is important to him to get a package passed by the end of
ANN ARBOR - Gas mileage of new vehicles sold in the U.S. slipped last month, according to researchers at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute. Average fuel economy (window-sticker values) of cars, light trucks, vans and SUVs purchased in June was 25.4 mpg, down from 25.5 mpg in May. "The decline likely reflects the
DETROIT - At the halfway point in 2015 Comerica Bank Economists see reasons to expect solid U.S. economic growth through the second half of the year. U.S. data at the end of the second quarter are encouraging. There is ample evidence of a pickup in economic momentum through the second quarter, after a weak
LANSING - The state has spent tens of millions of dollars upgrading computer systems since Governor Rick Snyder took office, but, as with prior attempts to improve the system, the changes have not always gone as smoothly as many would like. But state officials said this time they are keeping track of what is going
LANSING - Consumers Energy Company and DTE Electric Company customers could soon pay more, or less, depending on when they use power under tariffs approved Monday by the Public Service Commission. The orders (Case No. U-17688 for Consumers and U-17689 for DTE) require the utilities to offer time-of-use rates to customers with smart meters. DTE's