Mark Brant, reelected Nov. 5 as a Monroe County commissioner, soon will be off to federal prison. The Republican said he has no plans to resign and will collect a roughly $15,000 salary.

It's possible a current Michigan state senator and a former state senator are both in the running for state party chair jobs early next year.

The votes by the county-level bipartisan canvassing boards marked a key step in the process of finalizing the tallies.

Finance reports show that the Trump campaign’s most common food vendor nationally was McDonald’s, where it expensed 153 visits totaling more than $41,000. Chick-fil-A, Jimmy John’s and Dunkin were the next most frequent food vendors. Some food was decidedly more high-end.