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' The Daily Press has received four Good News Awards and one Michigan Associated Press Managing Editors Association Award.

The American Red Cross, General Motors, and OnStar by GM will announce the 2008 Red Cross Heroes March 27 in Troy. via Press and Guide

“I'm confident that my sister is looking down on us right now, with a huge smile”

On Friday, February 29th, Dateline NBC will air a story on the murder of Tara Lynn Grant--originally of Delta County. via WLUC-TV Negaunee

Why do we celebrate important days? We celebrate Christmas because Christ Jesus was born. via Gladwin County Record

“Typically, a newly-committed prisoner goes to the Upper Peninsula first”

Stephen Grant likely will start the rest of his life where Tara Grant began hers -- in the Upper Peninsula, according to state corrections officials. via Detroit Free Press

“To dismember like that -- it's almost unfathomable”

In the small towns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula where Tara Grant spent her youth, just about everyone remembers her or has a connection with her or her family. via Detroit News

A jury in Mount Clemens started a third day of deliberations Thursday in the case of a man accused of killing and dismembering his wife. via WLUC-TV Negaunee

Eileen "Midge" Stone of Rapid River, passed away Saturday, Dec. 8, 2007, at home surrounded by her loving husband and family. via The Daily Press

Erik A. Ohlen StaffSgt. Erik A. Ohlen was deployed to Bagram AFB in Afghanistan Sunday. via The Daily Press

“In a telephone conversation last week with Tara's sister, Alicia Standerfer, she said the photograph was 'absolutely beautiful' and gave her consent for us to reprint it today”

Daily Press staff writer Jenny Lancour earned first and second place awards in the Michigan Press Association's 2007 Better Newspaper Contest. via The Daily Press