Happy 188th birthday ... looked at a map of Michigan at any point after 1816 -- are aware that Michigan’s southern border is, in fact, not a straight line. Nearly 200 years later, Michigan ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Happy birthday, Michigan! The Mitten State was granted statehood on Jan. 26, 1837 — 188 years ago today. But many chapters of Michigan’s rich history predate ...

More than 50 visitors who recently streamed into Hal Shartle’s birthday party seemed to ask the same question: How did he ...

UTICA, N.Y. -- Today marks a special occasion as we celebrate a pre-Valentine's Day birthday: Utica's 193rd anniversary as a city. "When Utica became a city in 1832, it had 8,323 people in it," ...

It was on Feb. 14, 1912, that President William Howard Taft’s signing of legislation officially made Arizona the 48th U.S.

A Michigan mother has been arrested after she allegedly abandoned her three kids in a home for 4-5 years, according to the Oakland County Sheriff's Office. Officials say that the children were ...

The Wolverines, ranked 13th nationally, failed to reclaim the Iron D trophy after falling to their in-state rival for the first time in Detroit last year. Michigan State will face Penn State on ...

As we celebrate George Washington's birthday this weekend ... United Kingdom only three years earlier? Following up on the idea he launched at the University of Michigan, President Kennedy ...