Grand Rapids News

Melodic post-grunge outfit Pop Evil formed in Grand Rapids, MI, in November 2001 with a sound that took cues from the likes of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, aptly putting the quartet right in line with popular modern rock acts such as Crossfade, Shinedown, and Puddle of Mudd.

The Syracuse Crunch is battling in a back-and-forth series with the Grand Rapids Griffins for the Calder Cup, the championship of the AHL.

A West Michigan church pastor who redeveloped a former city public school into a church is accused in federal court of creating false documents to defraud banks in Wisconsin and Michigan.

The Grand Rapids school board Monday, June 17, approved a general fund budget of $191 million for 2013-14 school that includes teacher raises and cuts due to restructuring, end of grants, special education changes, and a projected loss of 700 students.

The Grand Rapids school board Monday, June 17, approved a general fund budget of $191 million for 2013-14 school that includes teacher raises and cuts due to restructuring, end of grants, special education changes, and a projected loss of 700 students.

Stacy Gatlin, the 21-year-old mother whose baby ingested crack cocaine at her apartment, has pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree child abuse and contributing to the delinquency of a minor.

Kent County Assistant Prosecutor Kellee Koncki questions Sukhwindr Singh, former employer of Jahleel Hoskins, during the prelim for Hoskins in the murder of Latrice Maze on Monday, June 17 at the Kent County Courthouse.

The potential closure or debranding of the 24-hour convenience stores is part of a agreement between 7-Eleven Inc. and Garb-Ko Inc., which has overseen the operation of several West Michigan 7-Eleven locations for decades.

Zoe Stehouwer is the type of person who will do anything for anyone, said her mother, Jill, and it's exactly the spirit wanted back with the family.

The city might give $1.2 million over the next three years to the Grand Rapids Public Museum, which is trying to shift to a new business plan that could include a millage request.

Live transmission of City Commission meetings in Spanish is scheduled to start in July.

She will be the guest of honor at the Economic Club of Grand Rapids ' annual dinner, held at DeVos Place .

But that course reversed last year for the 28-officer public safety department -- as it did for many other departments around the state that saw an uptick in drunken driving arrests, a new MLive Media Group analysis shows .

From Broadway music to body slams, this edition of The Playlist offers three diverse options to add to your social calendar between today and Wednesday.

The U.S. government projects to make more money off student loans this fiscal year than ExxonMobil, Apple, J.P. Morgan Chase or Fannie Mae made on their respective businesses last year, a new analysis shows.

Nearly 6,500 Consumers Energy customers are without power in Grand Rapids and Wyoming, and police are responding to reports of traffic light outages along the busy 28th Street corridor.

Authorities are blaming alcohol and high speed in a single-car rollover crash east of Big Rapids where a Lansing man was ejected and subsequently flown to the hospital.

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Various members of the extended Bush family have been visiting Michigan within the last month.

In the five years Joseph Workman has been attending West Michigan's Pride Festival , he's seen the annual event grow, not only in size but diversity, too.