Grand Rapids News

Posted on Monday, October 19, 2009 at 6:12 p.m. Monroe County Sheriff's deputies are investigating the theft of a life-sized horse statue stolen from the front yard of a woman's home on Smith Road.

Today Robin Clifton is chopping avocados as part of her culinary arts studies at Owens Community College.A She'll be graduating in December and already is working part-time at a restaurant in Grand Rapids.

Matt Frey of Bowling Green and his wife, Jaimee, try to hold their daughter, Adrienne, 3, still so she can get a seasonal flu shot during a clinic administered by the Wood County Health Department.

A father says his 9-year-old daughter is a hero after he passed out and she kept driving - even avoiding a head on crash with a semi.

Sure, you can go to Starbucks and buy a grande caramel apple cider and an apple fritter donut and pretend that you are surrounded by the colors of fall foliage and that the apples in those items are farm-fresh. In actuality however, nothing beats stepping into nature and heading to a real bastion of autumn for the freshest fall treats available: an ...

Literati!, a party celebrating the connection between art and literature, will be 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Oct.

BOWLING GREEN: Kenneth L. Joseph, 57, of Bowling Green, Ohio, died Thursday, September 24, 2009.

The aroma of peaches bobbing in syrup of cinnamon sticks, whole cloves, and sugar lingers throughout the house, along with sweet and spicy September memories.

FINDLAY -- Josh Bender, a junior pharmacy major at the University of Findlay, received his white lab coat at the College of Pharmacy's White Coat Ceremony on Aug.

GRAND RAPIDS, Ohio - While eager to "put to rest" the controversy over pay raises for employees of the Wood County Park District, park commissioners Monday delayed adopting a new wage scale.

A neatly typed court order dating to 1934 that declared the creation of the Wood County Park District hangs in a wooden frame inside the park district's front office.

The small group seated in the back row of a crowded Lucas County Common Pleas courtroom recently didn't know the man about to be sentenced nor the two boys whose lives he was responsible for taking.

The Rock 'n' Roar dance party returns tomorrow to the Toledo Zoo, 2700 Broadway.

Jacob Polen and David Todd were supposed to be going to a birthday party, their friends said, and their neighbor Glenn Walbolt was to give them a lift.

A local man was sentenced to a total of 12 years in prison for the deaths of two teenage boys.

A local man was sentenced to a total of 12 years in prison for the deaths of two teenage boys.

Despite what some residents called an attempt to circumvent the voters, the Otsego school board agreed last night to finance a new elementary school without going to the ballot box.

A strange sight in Grand Rapids, Ohio, Thursday. The part of the Maumee River there was pink! We checked with the Environmental Protection Agency.

Two Ohio families and their pastor filed a federal lawsuit in Minneapolis this week accusing some "confusingly intertwined" Twin Cities investment advisers and a dozen business entities of fraud, misrepresentation and other breaches in the handling of their life savings.

A man accused of causing a Feb. 10 traffic accident that resulted in the deaths of two Otsego High School students entered pleas in the case Monday.