By Tina Lam, Detroit Free Press Jul. 29--The summer's heavy rains may have kept lawns a little greener, but they've made the water along Michigan's beaches a little dirtier.

By Steve Neavling, Detroit Free Press Jul. 16--Record levels of E. coli recently found in Macomb County waterways couldn't have come at a worse time, public health officials said this week. As potentially dangerous amounts of human and animal feces continue to wash into Lake St.

By Matt Helms, Detroit Free Press Jan. 23--Jefferson has reopened south of 11 Mile Road in St. Clair Shores after the avenue closed for several hours because of a home that caught fire this morning, police said. The home was unoccupied and no injuries were reported, said St.

By Kim North Shine, Detroit Free Press Nov. 18--Cooking is not a chore for Cathryn Urbaniak. For the head chef at the Jefferson Yacht Club in St. Clair Shores, it is her profession and her passion.

By Kim North Shine, Detroit Free Press Oct. 28--The story goes that inexplicable, frightening sights and sounds have emanated from the bathhouse at the Grosse Pointe Woods Lake Front Park: lights turning off and on by themselves, showers doing the same, a figure of man appearing in shaky glass wall.