Wyoming News

Construction should start in April on an update to the 15-acre Oriole Park that will add a splash pad and trails along with a playground and basketball and tennis courts.

In a difficult economic year in which residents of all states rated economic conditions negatively, those living in the District of Columbia and South Dakota expressed a greater degree of confidence in the U.S. economy than did residents in other states.

A Kent County man will spend 50 years in prison for extortion and producing child pornography.

February 5, 2010 - GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Richard Lee Minch, 50, of Wyoming, Michigan, was sentenced to 50 years in prison followed by a life term of court supervision for attempting to extort money from a business by threatening to shoot the employee and for producing images of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct, U.S. Attorney Donald A.

The Grand Rapids Police Department has made two arrests in a homicide that occurred more than 14 months ago.

WYOMING, Mich. Police in Wyoming say that they have begun making arrests in a five-year long investigation involving a counterfeit check writing ring.

Two people accused in a Wyoming shooting will see their cases go to Kent County Circuit Court.

A suspect in a videotaped burglary at Women's Health Center of West Michigan was arraigned today on charges of breaking and entering and possession of burglary tools.

The drugs Wyoming police recovered in their raid. WYOMING -- Police confiscated 335 pounds of marijuana and 2.3 kilograms of cocaine, all worth $500,000, in a drug bust that authorities said took them "pretty far up the ladder." Officers with the Metropolitan Enforcement Team and Wyoming Police Department executed search warrants on two houses ...

A suspected heroin dealer from West Michigan is behind bars Wednesday morning after several months on the run.

Are West Michigan voters as peeved as those in Massachusetts? We'll know soon enough: May 4. That's when Kentwood and Wyoming city governments will test voter temperaments on a bellwether grassroots issue: public safety.

Kent County's farmland preservation program suddenly has a lot of balls in the air with pending grants from a federal agency and another from a local foundation as it seeks to almost double its acreage a month after receiving county funding for the first time.

The Board of Education went into closed session this week to discuss union contract negotiations armed with the following 2010-2011 budget projections: Based on a loss of 200 students and a $268-per-pupil state funding cut, revenues will decline by $3 million while expenses will rise $2.3 million, assuming a 1 percent wage increase for union ...

An 18-year-old man has been ordered to stand trial for allegedly taking part in an armed robbery that left his accomplice dead after a struggle with the victim over a gun.

Two men shot at a Farragut Street SW party early Sunday continue to recover in the hospital.

Two people are awaiting arraignment on multiple charges following a shooting early Sunday morning on Farragut St.

Police are looking for a man who approached a woman as she walked toward a Taft Avenue apartment today, told her to "give me what you got" while implying he was armed, then stole her running car.

The Board of Education's vice president, who has been outspoken in calling for union concessions to avoid mid-year staff cuts that take effect Monday, will face voters this spring.

A suspect is in custody after two people were shot during a home invasion in Wyoming on Sunday morning.

A 29-year-old Wyoming, Mich. man was arrested in Manistee County after police found about $10,000 worth of suspected drugs in his vehicle during a traffic stop.