Grosse Pointe Park News Archives

This summer, while traveling to Chicago on westbound I-94, 87-year-old Barbara Thompson of Grosse Pointe Park ran into a problem near Jackson.

DETROIT - About a dozen metro-area cops can add 'crocodile hunter' - or at least 'alligator hunter' - to their resumes, after they discovered a 3-foot-long reptile in Detroit on Thursday while raiding a suspected chop shop.

A pair of purse thieves got away with it last week until captured five minutes later by police.

In the face of the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression, Gov. Jennifer Granholm is proposing a slew of new taxes , many of which affect the common folk .

Alicia Oxholm describes the Monarch butterflies flight from Michigan to Mexico as a 'miracle' Kathy Ryan write the author Monarch butterflies, amid chrysalis still waiting to open, are tagged and ready for flight.

Members of the public can go to the Grosse Pointe War Memorial next Monday night and weigh in on state policy using polling TV technology right out of beautiful downtown Burbank.

With the opening of Grand Rapids' ArtPrize on Wednesday, participating artists worldwide -- some 1,200 of them -- are geeked.

Don't be deceived. Drugs are still out there and teenagers have access to them. Learn the warning signs and how to be proactive at a Family Center of Grosse Pointe & Harper Woods presentation, "Are Your Kids at Risk? Not Mine! Not Here! Not Now! ... Not True," at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept.

Detroit's top cop, Warren Evans, did right by remaining in the city, instead of moving to the house he bought in Grosse Pointe Park, before the former Wayne County sheriff was named police chief last month.

Picture, if you will, the rabid Wolverines fan. It's a guy, right? Dude holding a bratwurst in his hand.

Tree removal services will be kept busy this fall, as cases of Dutch elm disease are on the rise in Grosse Pointe Park.