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It's fitting because now, Ken Furtick - Capt. Robert Furtick - is a name tha4 the entire student bod9 at Greenville Senior High Academ9 knows well.

A pair of Cedar Springs officials - Raymond Huckleberry and Larry Briggs - have been arrested and are facing charges in two separate cases.

United Lifestyles is sponsoring a seven-week fitness challenge beginning Jan. 7. The program is to help people get a healthy start to the new year.

DELTA TWP. - Andy and Vicky Rodriguez find themselves on separate fronts for the second time since 2005: Vicky on the home front and Andy preparing for his second tour in Iraq.

Some local soldiers and their families are in for a very merry Christmas. The 1073rd Army National Guard unit based out of Greenville, Michigan are expected to arrive in Okemos.

State Rep. Brian Calley called it 'a perfect combination of Christmas spirit and a desire to show appreciation for the people who make our way of life possible.' How else could you explain it - this fund-raiser that barreled through Michigan's recession like a runaway bus, surpassing its goal inside of 24 hours? On Wednesday, Calley, a Portland ...

I've been hearing recently from people looking for a way to support the troops this Christmas.

When Stephen Brigham of Brigham Funeral Chapel heard on the evening news that some members of the Michigan National Guard 1073rd Maintenance Co.

The families of 150 Greenville-based soldiers are one step closer to bringing them "home for the holidays". A fundraising effort is underway for members of the Michigan Army National Guard 1073rd Maintenance Company.

A group of Michigan National Guard soldiers based in Greenville will be coming home for Christmas before heading to Iraq, thanks to more than $12,000 in donations collected by a Belding veteran's post.

A prison official said Carson City Correction Facility is under "emergency mobilization" after five inmates overpowered a prison guard and escaped a work detail this morning.

In a Nov. 18, 2009 photo, the young women's group at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Greenville, Mich., are seen with some of the hats they knitted over the past 2 1/2 months for orphans in Grand Rapids.

GREENVILLE, Mich. More than 100 families are spending their final days with a group of soldiers before a big deployment.

Leonel Franco-Avina, who police say had a blood-alcohol level five times over the legal limit when his truck plowed into another vehicle on the East Beltline , killing a Greenville teacher, waived his preliminary hearing in Kent County District Court today, sending the case against him to Circuit Court.

The need for more space has Montcalm County Fair officials thinking it's time to move on to greener pastures.

Spc. Greg Krause of Greenville holds his daughter, Dakota, 3, after his deployment ceremony at Greenville High School Friday evening.

Authorities say they caught an Indiana man riding a bike while balancing a stolen Christmas tree across the handlebars.

GREENVILLE, Mich. - A gripping goodbye in Greenville Friday night as the town sends several of its fighting men and women off to war.

Chris Larsen held his daughter Emma close on her first birthday, knowing that she'll be celebrating her second before her father is home again.

About 150 Michigan National Guard soldiers from Greenville will leave tomorrow for training before heading to Iraq for a year-long tour to provide convoy security and protection.