Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney will be spending a lot of time in Michigan in the runup to the state's Feb. 28 primary after his big win Tuesday in Florida, his Michigan campaign chairman said Wednesday.

New plant species from Madagascar smells like roadkill The famed "corpse flower" plant – known for its giant size, rotten-meat odor and phallic shape – has a new, smaller relative: A University of Utah botanist discovered a new species of Amorphophallus that is one-fourth as tall but just as stinky. The new species, collected on two small islands off Madagascar, brings to about 170 the number of ...

The removal of the Memorial Bridge lift span had been scheduled for Tuesday night, but prep work took longer than expected.