Watch CBS News
Comerica Bank's Michigan Economic Activity Index fell two points in October, returning to a level of 87 for the third time in the last four months. October's level is up 16 points, or 23 percent, above the cycle low of 71 reached in July 2009. Year-to-date the Index has averaged a level of 85, up 11 points, or 15 percent, from the average for all of 2009.
Chanting "Fight, Don't Starve, Extend Unemployment Benefits Now," a small group of protestors want to send a message to Governor Granholm.
Livonia Police are investigating after a man was found dead in the parking lot of the Costco at I-96 and Middlebelt Road.
At the age of three, Devin O'Halloran was up on skates, learning to glide across the ice just like his dad, who is a National Hockey League referee. But even then, his parents knew their little boy faced much bigger challenges than learning to maneuver around a rink.
Gomez, the Web performance division of Detroit-based Compuware Corp. (Nasdaq: CPWR), Wednesday said that the top 15 Web retailers in the United States performed well on Cyber Monday results based on the Gomez Retail UX (User Experience) Index.
Annual analysis released Wednesday from Ann Arbor-based ForeSee Results suggests that retailers have reason to be cautiously optimistic about the upcoming holiday season. Customer satisfaction with online retailers on Cyber Monday was the same this year as last year, 73.1 on the American Customer Satisfaction Index's 100-point scale.