Ex-’Friend’ Schwimmer puts ‘Trust’ in upcoming independent feature he’s filming in Michigan

Schwimmer back in the director’s chair for ‘Trust’

Group of 25 major research libraries offers full-text search to 4.6 million digitized volumes

Library group offers text search to 4.6M books

Borders Group to close 200 Waldenbooks stores, cut 1,500 jobs in January to shrink chain

Borders to close 200 Waldenbooks stores, cut jobs

CORRECTION: Tecumseh leadership story

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — In an Oct. 7 story about leadership changes at Tecumseh Products Co., The Associated Press erroneously reported that former CEO Todd Herrick launched a proxy battle to elect himself to the company’s board in 2007. The Herrick Foundation nominated three people to the board, but Todd Herrick was not among those nominees. Also, Kent Herrick was not elected to the board in April 2007, but became a director at that time as part of a settlement with Tecumseh over corporate governance issues.

Borders to offer free WiFi service through Verizon starting in October

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Bookseller Borders Group Inc. said Tuesday it signed a deal with Verizon Communications Inc. to provide free WiFi service in “virtually all” of its more than 500 stores around the country.

Great Recession, high gas prices force American car buyers to downsize auto ambitions

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Big cars and trucks are out. Smaller ones that offer more for your dollar are in. And many drivers will hang onto the new cars they buy longer.

Borders Group posts 2nd-quarter loss on charges, declining sales at its bookstores

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Borders Group Inc. said Tuesday that it continued to lose money in its fiscal second quarter on charges and declining sales at its bookstores.

Young women exercise less than young men: Study

ANN ARBOR - Despite mounting public health concerns about obesity and persistent social pressures dictating that slim is beautiful, young women in their ’20s consistently exercise less than young men.

Bookseller Borders Group lifts discount for teachers to 25 percent

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Borders Group Inc. on Monday said it has upped the discount for teachers on purchases at Borders and Waldenbooks.

Borders Group will elect 5 new board members at meeting in September

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Book retailer Borders Group Inc. said Tuesday it will elect five new directors at its board meeting in September.

Kaydon board boosts regular quarterly dividend 5.9 percent to 18 cents, payable Oct. 5

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Kaydon Corp. on Friday said its board boosted its quarterly dividend by 5.9 percent to 18 cents per share.

AnnArbor.com, successor to The Ann Arbor News, goes live as new news source in college town

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Ann Arbor has a new source for news.

‘Farewell Ann Arbor’: Michigan newspaper closes after 174 years; new online site emerges

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The Ann Arbor News hit the streets Thursday for the last time in 174 years, a victim of the struggling newspaper industry, and will be replaced by an online news operation built from scratch by the same owner.

Michigan newspaper, Ann Arbor to close after 174 years

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Geoff Larcom has covered higher education, written columns and led sports coverage at The Ann Arbor News. His final assignment: the newspaper’s own obituary after 174 years. The only daily newspaper in this college town — daily circulation 45,000 — is rolling off the presses for the last time on Thursday and going out of business. It is being replaced by AnnArbor.com, an online news site that will produce a print edition twice a week, on Thursday and Sunday.

General Motors CEO says automaker’s July sales appear weaker than year ago

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — General Motors Co.’s top executive described July auto sales as weak compared with the same month last year, but said it’s still early.

UM hosts meeting on safer, more efficient, less polluting truck transportation system

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Improving the efficiency and safety of truck transportation while reducing its environmental damage is the focus of an international conference next week at the University of Michigan.