Battle Creek News

With the themes of fire, water, earth and air running through its decor, FireKeepers Casino has all the elements for a great date night.

Applications are now available for the Children's Defense Fund Freedom School Summer Literacy Program.

Now that medical marijuana is legal in Michigan, can an employer fire a worker who tests positive for the drug? Walmart says it can, so it did, reports a Grand Rapids television station.

The Community Collaborative Against Violence, or CCAV, is an organization that works hard to bring peace to the greater Battle Creek community.

Battle Creek city commissioners on Tuesday signed off on plans to use federal stimulus money to raze more than 90 blighted houses.

Bickford Assisted Living & Memory Care of Battle Creek and Michigan Blood are teaming up to help save lives at Bickford's Give a Pint, Get a Pint blood drive.

A day after her house burned, Dorinda Davis reached up a charred wall to retrieve a picture of her parents.

A rally was held Sunday in Battle Creek, Michigan in support of Joseph Casias, a registered medical marijuana user and cancer patient who was terminated from his job at Wal-Mart late last year.

The Battle Creek Central Science Department would like to announce their February Students of the months: Grade 9: Bryce Jackson and Taylor Lingbeek, Grade 10: Alimasi Kizenga and N'neka Hawkins, Grade 11: Keanu Palmer and Jalinda Smith, Grade 12: Destinick Flemming.

Cheryl Hicks will present a program on trompe l'oeil at the March 26 meeting of the Battle Creek Society of Artists.

Three Battle Creek City buses will be converted to hybrids with kits paid for with federal stimulus money.

A big boost for Calhoun County has just been announced. The next Hot Air Balloon Championships will be held in the Cereal City.

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Calhoun County Chief Medical Examiner Mehmet Ismailoglu, M.D., a Battle Creek internist, and Dr.

At the next meeting of the Woman's League of Battle Creek the topic will be "Sailing the Cyclades". This program will be presented by Marijke Guerin on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 2 pm.

Paris Palmer of Gary, Ind., will spend the rest of his life in a Michigan prison after being convicted today of the murder of a Battle Creek man.

Just before Angela Brown was fatally stabbed, her former boyfriend threatened to kill her, a witness testified today.

Emergency water line repairs are under way this afternoon on Capital Avenue Northeast in the city of Battle Creek.

A former physical therapy assistant says she was a victim of religious discrimination because she was fired for refusing to get an H1N1 influenza inoculation last year.

"Mikhail Gorbachev was unanimously elected general secretary of the Communist Party at an extraordinary plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union that was held today." At 54, Gorbachev is the youngest member of the ruling Politburo and his appointment marks the first step in a transition of power from the "old ...