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The number of people in Michigan traveling this Memorial Day is expected to be close to the same as last year, but the people behind the "Pure Michigan" campaign say this big weekend for the travel industry is going to be kicking off a record breaking year for tourism.

The debut of Failure-Lab in Grand Rapids at the Wealthy Theatre would best be described as anything but a failure.

Attorney Craig Noland has joined McGraw Morris P.C. as the managing shareholder of its new Grand Rapids office, the Troy-based law firm announced Thursday, May 23.

West Michigan's fourth Bagger Dave's "legendary" burger tavern is opening in downtown Grand Rapids just in time for Memorial Day.

Amber Wilson is accused of attacking her mother and step father with an axe and a knife.

By the time the 2013 Spring Parade of Homes officially opens on Friday, May 24, the drop cloths on the aspen wood flooring and mud on the sidewalks at 7635 Luca Vista will be a dim memory for Tim VerStrate.

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Guests bid on items during the auction at the 20th Annual Bee Dazzling Spellebration Wednesday evening.

A school district failed to properly investigate allegations by two students that they were sexually assaulted at their Grand Rapids-area high school, the U.S. Department of Education said.

A sudden squall, snowflakes and a tornado top the list of Michigan weather events on this day in history .

A house recently completed by the Habitat for Humanity of Kent County was presented Wednesday to its new owner, Randi Challender.

Family and friends of Latrice Maze wipe their eyes during testimony in the prelim for Jahleel Hoskins, charged with the murder of Maze on Wednesday, May 22 at the Kent County Courthouse.

A Royal Oak-based film crew is visiting West Michigan this week to get footage for a Grand Rapids-specific Pure Michigan travel marketing commercial that airs June 3. "It's a very fast turnaround," said Michelle Begnoche, spokesperson for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, the state's marketing arm.

Festival of the Arts , the annual start-of-summer celebration in Grand Rapids, is the traditional kick off to summer in the city.

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Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell, left, presents a key to the city to sculptor Tom Otterness during a 2006 press conference.Otterness' sculptures were displayed throughout downtown in the summer of 2006.

Grand Rapids Ballet dances David Parsons' "The Envelope" at the Spring Dance Festival in St.

Former "Growing Pains" TV star and evangelical Christian Kirk Cameron will speak in Grand Rapids about marriage.

A few members of the crowd decided to dance as the Eschelons perform as part of the Real Oldies Concert at the Ballpark at Fifth Third Ballpark on Saturday night.

In Grand Rapids, the Well House program serves as transitional housing for the homeless in the area and has seen some of the problems first-hand. He was once homeless and living in shelters in Grand Rapids while battling double pneumonia and a painful nerve condition called spinal stenosis.