Lapeer News

Dan Quisenberry, president of the Michigan Association of Public School Academies, said he doesn't expect any new charters this year, although the revised state law immediately allows for twice as many charter schools statewide and eliminates the cap completely in 2014.

When the Master Gardeners at the Garden at Suncrest in Lapeer, Michigan were approached by a beekeeper about placing a hive in their garden they were a little apprehensive.

A Michigan man who produced child pornography depicting young boys being sexually abused and shared it with one of the most notorious online pedophile groups ever busted by the federal government has been sentenced to 25 years in prison, the United States attorney for the Central District of California announced this week.

The Goodrich, Grand Blanc, Davison and Lapeer districts were among those receiving checks.

Coatings test equipment maker TQC , founded in 1977 in the Netherlands, has opened its first North American office.

A federal judge in Los Angeles sentenced a 34-year-old man to 25 years in prison Monday after he pleaded guilty to participating in the "Lost Boy" Internet bulletin board for posting child pornography, officials said.

True to his image as a man of wit and simple tastes who enjoyed poking fun at himself, it was typewritten on a single piece of lined yellow legal paper, complete with assorted typos and penciled-in editing marks.