Grand Rapids News

A house recently completed by the Habitat for Humanity of Kent County was presented Wednesday to its new owner, Randi Challender.

Family and friends of Latrice Maze wipe their eyes during testimony in the prelim for Jahleel Hoskins, charged with the murder of Maze on Wednesday, May 22 at the Kent County Courthouse.

A Royal Oak-based film crew is visiting West Michigan this week to get footage for a Grand Rapids-specific Pure Michigan travel marketing commercial that airs June 3. "It's a very fast turnaround," said Michelle Begnoche, spokesperson for the Michigan Economic Development Corporation, the state's marketing arm.

Festival of the Arts , the annual start-of-summer celebration in Grand Rapids, is the traditional kick off to summer in the city.

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Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell, left, presents a key to the city to sculptor Tom Otterness during a 2006 press conference.Otterness' sculptures were displayed throughout downtown in the summer of 2006.

Grand Rapids Ballet dances David Parsons' "The Envelope" at the Spring Dance Festival in St.

Former "Growing Pains" TV star and evangelical Christian Kirk Cameron will speak in Grand Rapids about marriage.

A few members of the crowd decided to dance as the Eschelons perform as part of the Real Oldies Concert at the Ballpark at Fifth Third Ballpark on Saturday night.

In Grand Rapids, the Well House program serves as transitional housing for the homeless in the area and has seen some of the problems first-hand. He was once homeless and living in shelters in Grand Rapids while battling double pneumonia and a painful nerve condition called spinal stenosis.

Victoria Lorenzo-Calmo reacts while holding her son, Jason Pablo-Lorenzo, 2, during a protest against her possible deportation outside the Gerald R. Ford Federal Building Tuesday, March 5, 2013.

Tribune Broadcasting Co. has tapped the news director at its Fox affiliate in Grand Rapids, Mich., to fill the same position at Fox59 in Indianapolis, the media company announced Tuesday.

Michigan State Police helicopter pilot Sgt. Jerry King from the Rockford post does his preflight check of "Trooper 2", a Bell helicopter he flies for law enforcement.

The next meeting of the Southwest Michigan Chapter of the American Meteorological Society and National Weather Association will be held on Tuesday, May 21 from 7:30pm-9:00pm at Schuler Books and Music in Grand Rapids .

Forty-two years after Frederick "Rick" Tholen III was killed in a corner-store stickup, his family and friends are fighting to keep the gunman, Chester Patterson, locked up.

President Obama jets off to Las Vegas for a campaign speech in which he exclaims innocently: "Will no one rid me of this turbulent Tea Party?" At first there is no discernible response.

A $2.2 million project to repair concrete along roughly 15 miles of I-96 has been postponed because of a stormy weather outlook.

Jaylin Garcia, left, and Maurico Ramirez, both of Grand Rapids, work on an activity in their first grade classroom on Thursday, March 22, 2012, at Sibley Elementary.

Sally and Michael Triant, landlords at Waters House Apartments, direct residents to move their cars as the parking lot and entry level of the building floods on Monday, May 20.

Marijuana advocates march along Monroe Center in downtown Grand Rapids Thursday, Dec.