Columbiaville News

FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER, Iraq , July 18, 2008 - When Patton's tanks rolled across North African desert sands, letters of encouragement, love and support from family back home connected 1st Armored ...

The 2008 Columbiaville Days is set to cruise into town July 18-20. The car-themed festival will kick off Friday July 18 at 5 p.m. with activities to keep area residents of all ages busy.

Now in the fifth year, local retailers and state officials are calling vertical licenses a straight up success in the battle to snuff out underage smoking and drinking purchases.

Goodrich's Taylor Pogue, who will be a junior on the Martians' cross country team this fall, finished in third place in the Volkslaufe 5K run this past Saturday.

Five years ago, community leaders began working to convert an abandoned Mid-Michigan railroad line into a path for hikers and bicyclists.

Neighbors reached into their own pockets to help an uninsured man and his daughter who lost everything following a Tuesday afternoon fire.

The Livingston Community News Howell school officials were meeting this week with Ted Gardella to finalized plans details for him to take over as Howell's new superintendent of schools.

When Lapeer County Habitat for Humanity Board members told Jason Wright that his family had been selected for the group's 2008 project, "I felt like a great weight had been lifted from me." For the past two ...

The Howell school board Thursday night chose Ted Gardella, a former Chelsea Public Schools administrator, as its next superintendent.

An elderly Lapeer man suffered minor injuries and was knocked to the ground in a scuffle with a bandit over his wallet Friday morning in a Genesee Street parking lot.

The Family Literacy Center in Lapeer this summer will offer Reading Games Workshops that began Thursday and will run through Aug.

The tornado sirens howled throughout the county Thursday evening warning residents of a funnel cloud seen by trained spotters and emergency officials.

An Anchor Bay area pageant queen and her boyfriend are facing prison time if convicted of providing liquid morphine to a man who later died of an overdose.

“It made me feel like I had let my son down through all the efforts I had made”

Mother fights system that undid years of work on son's mental illness - Grand Rapids Press by Pat Shellenbarger - May 17, 2008 As he headed for prison just over a year ago, Chad Childers feared the doctors ... via NC Mental Hope News

“Columbiaville was on the scene until 6:30 p.m.”

Flames destroyed a young family's possessions and killed their four pets Tuesday morning. via The County Press

Brooks and Nicole Heim of Wilson welcomed a baby girl at OSF St. Francis Hospital on April 7. Born at 9:53 p.m., Brynn Rayne weighed 8 pounds, 14 ounces and was 20 inches long. via The Daily Press

“If I could have, I would have done it somewhere else.”

Government usually has many ways to acquire revenue from the public. There is one method, however, that clearly went too far. via Times Herald

“He worked at GM for over 22 years to help with expenses and keep the campground going”

Betty Sutter will don the same wedding gown she wore 57 and 1/2 years ago to rededicate her vows to her husband, Bob. via The County Press

“We are actively interviewing suspects, and we picked up one man, 36, in connection with the break-in of the Attica church”

Lapeer County Sheriff's deputies detained a suspect Friday afternoon that could be linked to at least one of the church break-ins. "We are actively interviewing suspects, and we picked up one man, 36, in ... via The County Press

“If you have police doing sting operations to catch gay people, why are gay people then going to go to police to report hate crimes?”

It was the repeated use of the word faggot that made Dave Garcia of Swartz Creek decide he had had enough. via The Flint Journal