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MICHIGAN

Digital delay has its downsides

Consumer confusion and patchy communications among emergency responders are among the downsides to last week’s announcement the transition from analog TV signals to digital will be delayed to June 12.

MICHIGAN

Lansing offers computer, TV recycling

Students looking to dump old TVs and computers before the upcoming transition to digital TV can do so on Saturday at the Ingham County Road Commission facility, 5613 S. Aurelius Road, in Lansing, as part of a recycling program.

MICHIGAN

Expert: January was most frigid month in 15 years

The first two days of February have been a winter heat wave, but last month was the coldest January in recent history. William Marino, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service station in Grand Rapids, said last month was the coldest January in 15 years and snowiest since 2005.

MICHIGAN

Outbreak linked to peanut butter

The nationwide outbreak of salmonella has reached Ingham County, local health officials said Friday. Laboratory tests confirmed that one of two salmonella cases reported in the county Jan. 21 is tied to a nationwide outbreak caused by tainted peanut butter products.