In its 52-year history, eight boys from the Boys & Girls Clubs of South Oakland County have been named Youth of the Year for the entire state of Michigan. This year, for the first time, the honor went to a young woman from the South Oakland Club’s Royal Oak location. …

High unemployment and accessibility to the program drive the state’s record enrollment, with no signs of slowing. More: continued here

Former NJ Senate president Frank "Pat" Dodd dies at 72The Star-Ledger – NJ.comWhen he was only allotted 3000 stamps, Russo said he carried an overflowing box of mail into Dodd's office and left it sitting on his desk. …and more » More: continued here

MyFox Los Angeles For Poizner and Whitman, the battle grows heatedLos Angeles TimesFor Whitman, the former head of EBay making her first bid for office, the turnabout from high-flying frontrunner to muddy brawler has been particularly …Whitman campaign makes strong upfront pitchVarietyMeg Whitman's Wild Week That WasHuffington Post (blog)Poizner, hoping …

ROYAL OAK — First ADVENTURES of First United Methodist Church of Royal Oak and the Michigan Geocaching Organization invite everyone to learn about geocaching (treasure hunting with GPS), then look for hidden caches. This free event begins at 1 p.m. May 23 at the church at 320 W. Seventh St. …

Daily Mail I'm terrified Anthea Turner's tubers will be bigger than mine: The great Mail…Daily MailMy wife, Alison, a practice nurse, and son, Simon, 22, a manager for the Royal Mail, think I am obsessed. But Simon is already planning how to cook them for … More: continued here

The Melrose Post Office collected 603 pounds of food and $20 in cash donations to the Melrose Area Food Shelf Saturday, May 8 in the Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. More: continued here

If boom times ever return, the Portland Development Commission envisions the 13-acre site that houses the Main Post Office at 715 N.W. Hoyt St. as prime turf for mixed-use housing and commercial development. But that won’t happen until pollution is cleaned up from the land’s earlier uses as a rail …

Webber stamps authority in MonacoNationalThe crowds watch Mark Webber tear round the track on his way to pole position in Monte Carlo yesterday. Mark Thompson / Getty Images MONTE CARLO // Six days …and more » More: continued here

I don’t know about the rest of the Gadgeteer team, but I feel like it’s raining iPad cases these days. Don’t believe me? Well, it’s a Saturday afternoon at 4:30pm and just a few minutes ago I heard someone walking on my deck and when I went upstairs to see …