Ionia News

Local news for Ionia, MI continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.

Yesterday | Lansing State Journal

Portland grads can apply for financial aid

The deadline for graduating seniors to apply for financial aid via the FAFSA is fast approaching.

Comment?

Wed Feb 01, 2012

Flint Township/Swartz Creek Advance

Ionia man seriously injured after Trailblazer leaves road, hits tree

A 67-year-old Ionia man was seriously hurt today after his Chevy Trailblazer left South Bellamy Road and hit a tree.

Comment?

Tue Jan 31, 2012

Flint Township/Swartz Creek Advance

Grandmother of Ionia teen killed by state trooper: 'It's not fair'

Beatrice Dean all but lost the will to live last fall, some weeks after her son, 16-year-old Zachary Barber, was struck and killed by an off-duty Michigan State Police trooper.

Comment?

Flint Township/Swartz Creek Advance

Distracted off-duty trooper who struck and killed Ionia teen to learn punishment today

Daniel Parker, the off-duty state trooper who pleaded guilty last month to vehicular homicide in the death of 16-year-old Ionia native Zachary Barber, is due in court for sentencing this morning.

Comment?

Mon Jan 30, 2012

Sunherald.com

APNewsBreak: Detroit hit man says kid is innocent

IONIA, Mich. -- A Detroit hit man in prison for eight murders said he's willing to publicly take responsibility for four more to help clear a young man who claims he's innocent of the slayings and confessed at age 14 only to satisfy police.

Comment?

Mon Jan 23, 2012

Flint Township/Swartz Creek Advance

Police: 'Incense' robber used loaded shotgun because he wanted to 'die rather than go to prison'

Authorities released this still frame of the suspect brandishing a black-and-silver rifle at the clerk of Everybody's Market in Ionia County's Easton Township on Dec.

Comment?