IONIA COUNTY - Since September 2007, investigators have been working to discover what exactly happened to Donald Dietz after he disappeared from his home in Berlin Township.

Today, Michigan State Police announced the arrest of Rami Saba in relation to the case.  Saba was taken into custody at his home today...

MONTCALM COUNTY - Jim Westra was in court today to learn his sentence for his role in a 2003 arson case.  Westra was found guilty of burning down his own business, the 'Haunted Mill', in Greenville.

Westra was sentenced to 4 1/2 to 20 years in prison for two of the...

MONTCALM COUNTY - A heated debate in Montcalm County is starting to come to a head after a meeting held this afternoon.  A committee is discussing the County end a long standing contract with local business R and R Research.

Jim Woudenberg, owner of R and R Research, has been buying...

PORTAGE - Police say they've made an arrest in an on-going murder investigation in Portage. 

53 year old Robert Atkinson was found dead in his office at Precision Windows on Portage Road in the middle of January.

Investigators say he was killed by a single gunshot.

About a week after he was...

PORTAGE - Portage Police are investigating the death of a 53 year old man that appears to have died from an apparent gunshot wound.

Investigators say they found Robert Atkinson of Portage inside Precision Windows just before 11:00am Thursday.  The preliminary autopsy report confirms Atkinson died from a single gunshot wound.

The...

KENT COUNTY - Terri Ann Mikula, the woman accused of stealing donated gifts at local Angel Tree locations around Christmas time, plead guilty in court today.

She's charged with 2 counts of Larceny from a Building, which is a 4 year felony.

Mikula was arrested in December shortly after surveillance pictures starting...

GRAND RAPIDS - Court proceedings in the case against a a former Whitehall teacher and basketball coach are moving forward.

Jared Bays, 32, was bound over to circuit court today, although a specific trial date has not been set.

Bays is being charged with criminal sexual conduct after allegedly having a sexual...

GRAND RAPIDS - GR Press sportswriter David Mayo was offered a plea deal for the drug charges he's facing in district court today, but no word yet if he'll take it.

Mayo was arrested just over a week ago for Possession with Intent to Deliver after police found dozens of marijuana...

TEXAS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Kalamazoo Valley Community College is creating an academy to train students to work on turbines found on wind farms.

The 26-week program will start training technicians in October to repair and install utility-grade turbines.

College leaders on Wednesday turned on the school's new 145-foot wind turbine. The...

PHOENIX (AP) - A high school in Phoenix is the scene today of President Barack Obama's next economic initiative.

He'll announce an ambitions plan to avert home foreclosures for people with troubled mortgages by coaxing lenders to lower interest rates.
     
The president is also backing legislation to give bankruptcy...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Cable operator Charter Communications Inc. says it will file Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization documents by April 1.

As part of an agreement with debt holders, they will be paid in full and Paul Allen will maintain the largest voting interest in the company.

The agreement says shareholders' stake...

WYOMING - Park Place Apartments is teaming up with the Kent County Tax Coalition to help residents save money during these tough economic times.  The United Way is also helping the program.

Here's how it works.  The renter plans to pay 50 cents on the dollar for residents that deposit money...

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