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CLARKSTON, MI - Fans attending the Santana concert at Pine Knob were shocked when the 74-year old legendary guitarist collapsed on stage right in the middle of a song. It happened about 40 minutes into Santana’s set at their concert on Tuesday, July 5th after Earth, Wind and Fire performed. Carlos Santana had just told the crowd a story about the song he was about to perform called “Joy” which he co-wrote with Chris Stapleton.

PORTAGE, MI -- A construction project will cause a lane closure in Portage this week, the city reports. Beginning 8 a.m. Wednesday, July 6, a lane closure in the eastbound curb lane on West Milham Avenue will occur for drainage structure work, the city of Portage said in a news release.

KALAMAZOO, MI -- Abraham Lincoln is coming back to Kalamazoo in the form of a statue. On Tuesday, July 5, the Kalamazoo City Commission voted to approve the final design of an Abraham Lincoln statue to honor Lincoln’s 1856 visit to Kalamazoo. The Kalamazoo Abraham Lincoln Institute, a Michigan...

LANSING, MI -- The second largest Mega Millions jackpot of the year will be on the line Tuesday night as the estimated jackpot for the drawing on July 5 is worth $370 million. The cash option for tonight’s drawing is worth $213.3 million. MLive will be providing live results...

HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (AP) — The man charged Tuesday with seven counts of murder for opening fire at an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago legally bought five weapons, including two high-powered rifles, despite authorities being called to his home twice in 2019 for threats of violence and suicide, police said.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Protestors are calling for Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker to resign a week after Becker announced his intention to enforce Michigan’s 1931 law banning abortion procedures. Several local members of the national Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) rallied outside the Kent County Courthouse Tuesday,...

Acknowledging Michigan’s legal hierarchy of criminal prosecutions, Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel says she would let local prosecutors enforce the state’s 1931 abortion ban if a court reactivates it. “My position has always been this: I don’t believe that I have or that I should have the authority...

KALMAZOO, MI — A new nonprofit extension of the Broncos Kitchen Foundation has been put on blast by its namesake, who apparently never signed off on the use of his name in affiliation with the nonprofit. The official Twitter account of actor and literary advocate LeVar Burton tweeted shortly...

FLINT, MI -- A former Flint emergency manager is the latest witness refusing to testify in a civil bellwether trial in federal court, invoking his Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate himself in a separate criminal proceeding. Darnell Earley, who served as Flint’s emergency manager when the city switched its...

A man and a woman were arrested in an investigation of a shots fired incident in Kalamazoo Township, police said. About 11:30 a.m. on Monday, July 4, the Township of Kalamazoo Police Department responded to 911 calls of shots fired near an apartment complex in the 3700 Block of W. Main Street, the township police department said in a news release. Officers found several spent shell casings in the area. The immediate area was checked and no victims were located, police said.

GRAND HAVEN, MI – Grand Haven State Park was shut down on the Fourth of July holiday Monday after an unruly crowd caused problems on the south pier and the beach, the state Department of Natural Resources said. When Grand Haven police shut down the pier, an estimated 200...

SAULT STE. MARIE, MI – Federal officials awarded a more than $1 billion contract to build a new chamber at the Soo Locks after months of scrambling to cover ballooned costs. The Detroit District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on July 1 awarded a $1.068 billion contract to an Ohio-based company expected to begin work this summer on the next phase of the Soo Locks reconstruction project. This third phase of the overall rebuild will create a new lock chamber and improve the downstream approach walls, work expected to take seven years to complete.

Michigan’s COVID-19 cases and deaths decreased this week after an increase a week earlier. Whether the July 4 holiday celebrations will bring about any bump in cases is not yet clear. Kent and Kalamazoo counties were among those with the highest new, per-capita confirmed cases in the last week....

KALAMAZOO, MI — A 20-year-old man was killed after his vehicle crashed into a tree on West Main Street Monday. The crash happened late Monday, July 4, in the 2200 block of West Main Street, according to a news release from the Kalamazoo Township Police Department. When officers and firefighters arrived at the scene at 11:45 p.m. Monday, the driver, the only person in the vehicle, had succumbed to his injuries.

A decade-long secret is finally out. General Motors has revealed the tax credit it received during The Great Recession. The automaker originally accepted a $3.8 billion cap through the Michigan Economic Growth Authority (MEGA) program to cover 2010-2029, GM’s senior communications manager Liz Winter said in an email to MLive.

Michigan will once again be represented on the upcoming season of the hit CBS reality TV show, “Big Brother.” The 24th season, which debuts on Wednesday, July 6 at 8:00 p.m. ET, has one houseguest from the state. 27-year old Taylor Hale is a personal stylist from West...

JACKSON, MI -- The Jackson County Animal Shelter, 3770 Spring Arbor Road, has many pets available for adoption. Benn is an 8-year-old stray that is solid black with white markings. He is an American Staffordshire mix who gets along well with most other dogs. Benn is house trained and not a barker or jumper. This guy is pretty laid back and easy going and would love to be your walking partner.

ANN ARBOR, MI -- With 10 years of serving up veggie burgers and soy-based shakes under her belt, Debra Levantrosser is ready to move on to bigger and better things. Levantrosser owns Shimmy Shack, a vegan and gluten-free food truck serving the Ann Arbor and Detroit areas, and recently put out a call for buyers for the business.

LIVINGSTON COUNTY, MI – Police watching for motorists going too fast to be safe on I-96 caught a doozy of a speeder Tuesday morning. At 9:20 a.m. July 5, a Michigan State Police trooper on I-96 near M-59 in Howell Township recorded and pulled over a motorist going 105 mph on the freeway, well over the posted speed limit of 70 mph, police said.

Bret Michaels is giving fans an update on his health ahead of Poison’s concert tonight in St. Louis after he had to go to the hospital last Thursday right before his Nashville show. Michaels and Poison are on “The Stadium Tour” with Def Leppard, Motley Crue and Joan Jett...