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Monday, April 29, 2013  Bay City officials are meeting now to discuss firefighter contracts. This comes as the first of two groups of police officers graduate from Bay County Fire Academy next month.

Monday, April 15, 2013  Dish Network offers to buy Sprint in $25.5B deal, says bid is superior to SoftBank's proposal

Thursday, March 28, 2013  Lapeer West students will attend Lapeer East starting with the 2014-2015 school year.

Thursday, March 07, 2013 

Friday, February 15, 2013  No deal. Saginaw County sheriff William Federspiel says he’s rejecting the proposed merger between the sheriff’s office and the city of Saginaw’s police department.

Thursday, February 14, 2013  They would become the world's largest airline

Monday, January 28, 2013  Bay City commissioners asked for public comments and feedback Monday evening at their third annual town hall meeting at the State Theatre.

Monday, December 03, 2012  After years of debate and heated discussion, Bay City commissioners voted Monday night to merge its police and fire services to save up to $1.8 million over the next five years.

Monday, November 12, 2012  Bay City commissioners are considering merging police and fire services to save up to $2 million a year.  City Manager Robert Belleman told them Monday night that the merger plan is the best one on the table.

Friday, November 09, 2012  Bay City leaders say it could be the hardest decision they'll ever make but re-organizing public safety, which is also the city's biggest ticket item, is something they say is necessary to keep the city afloat.

Thursday, November 08, 2012  Saginaw city is knocking on the doors of the county board of commissioners for help in trimming the city budget all in the name of public safety.

Monday, August 13, 2012  Saginaw County Sheriff William Federspiel tells NBC25 the plan he has presented the plan to the City Manager's Office this afternoon that details how his department would take over policing in the City of Saginaw in the event of a merger of the two departments.

Friday, April 20, 2012  Flint-based-based McLaren Health Care says it has reached a deal to buy a 34,500-member Medicaid health maintenance organization from an Ohio company.

Monday, December 27, 2010  A leader of Somalia's Islamist insurgency threatened to attack America during a speech broadcast Monday.

Friday, October 15, 2010  Daimler AG has won an appeal against a court ruling that it must pay about euro230 million ($324 million) to former shareholders of Daimler-Benz AG to settle a case related to its now-unraveled 1998 merger with Chrysler Corp.