Can Human Blood energize iPods and Cellphones?

this story intrigued meas how a body reaction and movement can generate electricity." This can be a possibility as the this body movement, beating of a human heart or simply the blood flow can be converted into electricity using nanowires made up of zinc oxide. Zinc-oxide...

Even the dead can't escape foreclosure in suburban Detroit

"Five bodies and the cremated remains of 22 people were evicted Friday from a funeral home in Pontiac. The remains from the House of Burns Memorial Chapel were delivered to the Oakland County medical examiner's office for storage. A medical examiner's administrator, Robert...

Good grief! Gigantic gourd goes missing in Mich.

"Good grief! Gigantic gourd goes missing in Mich. The Associated Press GRAND BLANC TOWNSHIP, Mich. - A...

McCain's Wife Hospitalized In Mich. Hand Injury, Not serious

McCain's Wife Hospitalized In Mich.Just in the hospital is reporting the injury is a hand sprain and is in no apparent distress." The wife of Republican presidential nominee John McCain was taken Wednesday...

Longtime High School Wrestling Coach Says Religious Controversy Sparked Firing

Fox News Reports " A high school wrestling coach in a Michigan city known for its large Arab community says he’s being forced out of his job of 35 years on trumped up allegations he allowed his assistant, a local clergyman, to try converting students to Christianity. ...

Dem lawyers: Fla., Mich. can't be fully Restored

Politisite would like to take you down a quick trip down memory lane.  Remember the Florida Primary that We covered Live here on NowPublic?  Here is what we said on election night,  Politisite...

'A few flourishes' in Obama's Detroit story?

Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama is touring a Chrysler plant in Sterling Heights, Mich., this morning. Our Gannett colleagues at the Detroit Free Press have used his visit as a peg to look at the way...

Police Use Tear Gas to Break Up Thousands of Partiers Near Michigan State Campus

Police say around 3,000-4,000 people were gathered in East Lansing, Michigan on Saturday night after an attempt to re-start the Cedar Fest parties that were shut down in 1987 after the parties got too...

Police: Suspected burglar fell asleep

"KALAMAZOO, Mich., April 4 (UPI) -- Police in Kalamazoo, Mich., said a suspected burglar fell asleep during a home invasion early Friday morning.Scott Merlo, acting captain of the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety's Criminal Investigations Division, said officers...

Ex-Skating star Christopher Bowman found dead

Oh my.  From flaunting your goods in skin-tight leotards before tens of thousands of skating fans...to this, a Soprano stand-in. (I refer to the recent photos of Bowman)Oh, the tragedy of has-been skating...

Week's weather 'going to get real freaky'

"U.S. - This week's weather is 'going to get real freaky' - The New Year's Day storm that snowed over parts of the Midwest is JUST THE BEGINNING of what forecasters are calling a crazy week of weather that could...

Student hounds prof running for office

"MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. - A politically conservative student armed with a video camera and a Web site is trying to force a Democratic congressional candidate out of his teaching job at Central Michigan...

University of British Columbia Political Correctness Gone "Friggin Insane"

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorThe Tofu Wheat Grass set at the University of British Columbia (UBC) for a better word have lost their friggin mind.  Using public funds for renovating 391 public...

6 Dead in Saginaw, Mich., House Fire

A fire at a two-story home in Saginaw, Mich., killed a man and his five stepchildren. The mother was pulled from the basement and she's okay."Police identified the victims as Watkins' husband, Samuel Watkins, 33; Adam Dupuis, 13; Majesty Price, 8; Destiny Price, 5; Essence...

Man Sentenced for Conspiring to Burn Home of African-American Family in Taylo...

"Ricky Cotton of Taylor, Mich., was sentenced yesterday to 78 months in prison for conspiring to violate the civil rights of an African-American family in Taylor."

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