Tributes Pour After Michigan GOP Activist Paul Welday's Sudden Death: Patch PM

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Tributes Pour in for Michigan GOP Activist Paul Welday

• Paul Welday was a prominent Republican strategist whose influence was respected on both sides of the aisle.

Fiat Chrysler Invests $74.7M, Retains 245 Manufacturing Jobs

• Next-generation, 2-liter-four cylinder engines will be manufactured at Trenton North Engine Plant.

Ford Invests $1.6B in Michigan, Ohio Manufacturing Plants

• The automaker said manufacturing plant upgrades will create or retain 650 hourly jobs.

Detroit Tigers' Tyler Collins' Middle Finger Lights Up Twitter

• The outfielder lost a fly ball in the lights and the crowd roared with disapproval. Collins responded by flipping the bird. Now he’s sorry.

Royal Oak Among '10 Actually Cool American Suburbs'

• “Detroit is already a hipster capital, so it makes sense that its suburbs are feeling it, too,” Gogobot says.

Bloomfield Hills 8th Grader Has Perfect ACT Score

• ACT doesn’t measure eighth-graders’ scores, but the odds of a perfect score at that age about “one-millionth of 1 percent.”

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