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Joe Biden’s presidential campaign will be airing its recently introduced spot “For You” on ABC affiliates in battleground markets during tonight’s Oscarcast.

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has optioned rights to Anthony Kiedis’ New York Times bestseller Scar Tissue, with the feature film project is currently in early development at the studio. It will be produced by Brian Grazer through Imagine Entertainment, Kiedis, and Guy Oseary.

Carol Duvall, known as HGTV’s “Queen of Crafts” and beloved host of The Carol Duvall Show, which ran on the network for more than a decade, died July 31 in Traverse City, Michigan, the New York Times reports. She was 97. DuVall passed at an assisted living facility, where she had lived for several years, her family told the Times.

There’s no place like prison?

A judge dismissed a female juror accused of flirting with one of the defendants charged in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer over COVID-19-era lockdown measures.  Jackson County Judge Thomas Wilson announced Friday that the woman has been removed from the jury, two days after attorneys raised concerns the juror was having too much non-verbal communication with defendant Paul Bellar, the Jackson Citizen Patriot reported.

LANSING, Mich. – Less than a month until November’s gubernatorial election, Republican candidate Tudor Dixon is urging voters to hold the state’s Democratic governor accountable for rising crime rates. "It's a problem.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media Writer A man who met writer-director Paul Schrader at a campus event at their Michigan alma mater has filed a lawsuit alleging that Schrader later stole his ideas and used them in the film “The Card Counter.” Mark Vanden Berge alleges in the suit that he met Schrader after a screening of “First Reformed” at Calvin University, a Christian college in Grand Rapids, in February 2018. He says he told Schrader about a treatment he was working on for a film called “Blown Odds,” about a gambler’s search for redemption, and asked Schrader for help developing it into a marketable screenplay. According to the suit, Schrader told him to email him the treatment. Vanden Berge sent it to him, according to the suit, but never heard back from Schrader directly, though he says he was told that Schrader had received it.

A small town in Michigan is mourning the tragic loss of a mother and three of her children after they were all found dead in a home there late last week.

Wynonna Judd will follow through with the previously announced upcoming tour she had planned with her late mother Naomi Judd, and will welcome a series of big-name guest stars to participate including Brandi Carlile, Faith Hill, Little Big Town, Martina McBride, Ashley McBryde and Trisha Yearwood.

A Michigan hospital system is investigating an alleged The Price is Right-style game during operations.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla ViacomCBS and Sinclair Broadcast Group have inked up multi-year renewal agreements across 13 CBS network affiliations for Sinclair stations, including four top-50s: WKRC in Cincinnati, Oh., WPEC in West Palm Beach, Fl., WWMT in Grand Rapids, Mi., and WHP in Harrisburg, Pa.One of the largest CBS affiliates operators — and the second largest station group in the U.S.

President Trump used his final rally in Michigan to make a bold prediction: he's going to win the state, and he'll do so easily. Trump arrived in Grand Rapids Mich., for the midnight event, before throwing a few "Make America Great Again" hats into the crowd of supporters who came out despite temperatures dropping into the 40s.  "We're gonna win the state of Michigan so easily," Trump said.

The militia group plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer hatched their plan -- which included firebombing police vehicles -- in the basement of a vacuum store in Grand Rapids, according to news reports.

Reba McEntire announced on Tuesday (May 19) that her 2020 arena spring tour will now take place in 2021.McEntire has decided to reschedule to summer 2021 "out of an abundance of caution," a release says.The rescheduled dates will now launch on July 8, 2021 in Evansville, IN and wrap on Aug. 14, 2021 in Grand Rapids, MI.