Daily newspaper's death leaves Ann Arbor at a loss

Across Ann Arbor, a city of 114,000, residents are coming to grips with the loss of their venerable daily newspaper, replaced by a Web version. Declining ad revenue and a prolonged recession are ravaging the newspaper industry, last year killing such iconic mastheads as Denver's 149-year-old Rocky Mountain News and the 146-year-old Seattle Post-Intelligencer. But Ann Arbor -- with its powerhouse university, world-class medical center, well-educated populace and an economy the envy of a down-and-out state - seems an unlikely destination for the ink-stained Grim Reaper.