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Actress to run for congress

LANSING, Mich. (AP) – Former “Little House on the Prairie” star Melissa Gilbert is running for Congress in Michigan.

The 51-year-old Democrat announced her candidacy Monday for the 8th District, a three-county seat stretching from the northern Detroit suburbs to Lansing. It’s held by first-term Republican Rep. Mike Bishop of Rochester.

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