Michigan State Senator Bruce Caswell wants to make sure that Michigan taxpayers' money is being used effectively. How's he going to do that? By requiring foster children to spend their clothing allowance at second-hand stores.

It's almost Tax Day, which means everyone is frantically googling the IRS to figure out how to get an extension. But if you search for "IRS" on Google Maps it leads you to a tiny airport in Michigan. This has caused some problems, it turns out.

34-year-old Richard Leon Barton Jr. never got around to divorcing his first wife in Rhode Island. So when he married a second woman last July in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he probably should have not posted those pictures to Facebook! His first wife became suspicious when he defriended her, so she snooped around and found his "happy wedding photos with the Grand Rapids woman on the pages of Barton's friends and family," according to The Grand Rapids Press.

You hear Tea Party folks and Republicans in Congress complain about the White House's collection of "czars" — appointees with actual departmental jobs who coordinate policy in certain sectors. Supposedly the czar system is an undemocratic way of rewarding cronies and bypassing congressional checks on power. But if that's a problem, and maybe it is, then new Republican Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's bill for appointing "emergency financial managers" to reorganize the state's failing localities should be met with about 100 times more revulsion.

Yesterday afternoon, FOX 17 reporter Abbey Sloan—who I graduated high school with!—visited an auto repair shop to report on a 50-60 car pileup in Mecosta, Michigan. Instead, she witnessed (and recorded) an angry customer's dangerous destruction. Yikes!

Stop whatever it is you're doing right now and watch this immediately, because it just won Super Bowl Sunday. It's the Eminem-starring ad for the Chrysler 200—"Imported From Detroit"—and it's a goose bump-inducing work of pure art.

It's only January, but here's a strong contender for bad parent of the year: A Michigan woman left her 4-month-old baby locked in a car in 21 degree weather for at least 20 minutes — while she was shoplifting.

Dozens of residents of Vernon Township, Mich. have been evacuated after a train carrying 20,000 gallons of hydrochloric acid derailed and began to leak. No injuries have been reported, but still! Hydrochloric acid! Yikes!

Andrew Shirvell, the suspended Michigan assistant attorney general who enjoys harassing gay college student body presidents, has been fired.

Andrew Shirvell, the Michigan assistant attorney general who moonlights as a gay college student body president's cyberbully without realizing how weird that is, has been temporarily suspended pending a hearing. Update: Now he's been fired.

The sale of Four Loko — the caffeinated booze of choice for totally awesome college dudes — has been banned in Michigan, and stores have 30 days to remove it from shelves. You can still purchase across state lines, though!

Andrew Shirvell, the assistant attorney general in Michigan who moonlights as a creepy blogger dedicated to harassing a gay student-body president, has taken personal leave and will face a disciplinary hearing when he returns. His blog's private now, too! Sad.

The scam seems to have begun sometime around the time that Schnuphase's husband died. "Shortly thereafter, she fell off the face of the Earth," a neighbor told the Detroit Free Press. Schnuphase reportedly told her son Christopher he had leukemia, and began to update her Facebook account with information about his condition ("Christopher now knows he is dying!" read one such update).

Michigan attorney general Mike Cox went on CNN last night to defend Andrew Shirvell, his assistant attorney general who writes a childish rage blog attacking University of Michigan's gay student body president. Why won't he discipline Shirvell? First Amendment, dummies!

Where have the crazy town hall protests been during this summer congressional recess? One of the few incidents we've seen happened in Michigan today, when old Sen. Carl Levin, chair of the Armed Services Committee, got pie'd.

For the first time in electoral history, voting matters! Two candidates in Michigan's "fighting first" congressional district, Dan Benishek and Jason Allen, received 27,091 and 27,090 votes, respectively, in yesterday's Republican primary. Whom will Kevin Costner pick? [via]

Jerry Douthett wouldn't get his severely infected toe examined. Then one night, after drinking "five or six beers" and "huge margaritas," he passed out and his dog, Kiko, crawled into bed and ate his big toe. It saved Jerry's life.

The estimates on the oil spill in southern Michigan's Kalamazoo River are getting worse, with the EPA last night saying there could be one million gallons of oil in the water. And this is not the oil company's first spill.

Michigan congressional candidate Bill Cooper is serious about deficits. Riffing on the legendary 1964 LBJ scare ad, "Daisy," Cooper promises to repel nuclear weapons of debt headed directly at children. What about real nuclear weapons, though? Will he repel those?

Kathy Myers, a 41-year-old woman from the broke-ass wasteland known commonly as Michigan, recently shot herself in the shoulder hoping that emergency doctors would also have to fix a different shoulder injury while they were working on her. They didn't.