UNREGULATED IN MICHIGAN: Loan-workout companies offer advice for a priceSome companies are catering to people who want to walk away from their mortgages, showing them how to do it without a deficiency judgment that could haunt a borrower later. | Flint Township company builds smoking huts, hopes to help area bars and restaurants as smoking ban takes effect May 1With no puffing allowed in Michigan’s restaurants, hotels and bars come May 1, an awning company in Flint Township thinks it has the answer for businesses that want to continue catering to smoking customers. | Chicago man reportedly attacked with sword in DavenportDAVENPORT, Iowa (AP) — Police say a Chicago man was seriously injured when he was attacked with a sword outside a Davenport, Iowa, tavern. |