Bart Stupak

BAY CITY (AP) — A man who threatened to paint Michigan’s Mackinac Bridge with the blood of a congressman was sentenced Thursday to six months of home detention and ordered to pay $47,000. Russell Hesch, 74, dodged a possible prison sentence....

BAY CITY (AP) — A 74-year-old man accused of threatening a Michigan congressman over his support for a health-care law has pleaded guilty. The Bay City Times says Russell Hesch of West Branch pleaded guilty Friday to sending threatening...

Former Democratic state Rep. Gary McDowell, of Rudyard, announced his plans to challenge 1st Congressional District Congressman Dan Benishek, R-Crystal Falls. Both men competed for the Congrssional seat in 2010 after 19-year veteran Congressman Bart...

There is more than one man planning to contest Congressman Dan Benishek in 2012. Derek Bailey, chairman of the Grand Traverse Bay Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, formally announced his candidacy Saturday for the 1st Congressional District as a...

DETROIT (AP) — Salaries have been on the rise for the staffs of U.S. House members at a time of pressure on the federal budget, according to a newspaper's analysis published Sunday. Staff spending by Michigan's representatives in 2010 ranged...

BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) — A psychiatrist has 30 days to submit a report on the mental health of a northern Michigan man charged with making a threat against a then-congressman. Federal Judge Thomas Ludington in Bay City settled on Dr. Craig Lemmen,...

Former Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan will spend a semester at Harvard University. The Menominee resident has been awarded a resident fellowship with Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Resident fellows take part in various activities on...

Cade Ingleson has come a long way from playing with green Army men in the sandbox. Just last month, the 17-year-old Petoskey High School senior learned that his many years of hard work and sacrifice had paid off. He was accepted into the U.S. Military...

Former Sen. Jason Allen, R-Traverse City, will be the senior deputy director of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs under the Snyder Administration, officials announced Monday morning. The two-term representative and two-term senator, who...

BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) — The criminal case against a man charged with threatening a former Michigan congressman is on hold while mental-health exams are performed. Russell Hesch will be evaluated to determine if he's competent to stand trial....

BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) — Expressions of regret are pouring in from Michigan's congressional delegation after the shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson in which six people died. Rep. Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield Township, served with...