Ithaca News

" Can city taxpayers afford to maintain a well-equipped, well-staffed, well-trained police department with a budget closing in on $1 million to operate? Do they need to? Clare City Commissioner Tom Koch posed these questions after recent budget planning sessions.

LANSING - Folk/rock singer Steve Carlson will join local favorites Daisy May Erlewine and Seth Bernard for a benefit concert at the Hannah Community Center in East Lansing on May 30.

Cartridges Are Us recently announced that it is now Gratiot County's second-largest private employer, and the city of Ithaca's largest employer.

An Ashley man is dead after a motorcycle crash Wednesday evening in Gratiot County's Emerson Township, according to police.

The highway from St. Johns to Ithaca was supposed to be something better - a freewheeling, nonstop route to Michigan's northern playground.

Circuit Judge Randy L. Tahvonen on Monday sentenced Laytwan T. Jackson to 36 months for prison escape plus six to 15 years for breaking into a home while on the lam.

A federal grand jury indicted the gang's national president, Jeff G. Smith, 54, of Mount Clemens on a charge of being a violent felon in possession of body armor.

Commuters tired of the nearly 16 miles of 55 mph highway along U.S. 127 between Mount Pleasant and Lansing could be in for a surprise.

LOUIS -- Police have two suspects and are seeking more victims in an egg-tossing incident.

Johns man is headed to prison for sexually assaulting two St. Louis girls from 2005 to 2008.

Mid-Michigan District and Central Michigan Community Health Department officials are not releasing the name of the cat's owners.

ST. JOHNS - The deadline for filing petitions to run for positions on local school boards is Tuesday, Feb.

Former Breckenridge Village Manager Larry Schmitz is one of the six finalists for the post.

If there is any one item you can't do without in the transition to all-digital television broadcasts, it would be the antenna needed to grab the signal.

State police have released an artist's rendering of a man involved in a series of daytime burglaries.

Maybe it wasn't quite a Christmas miracle, but it certainly was a big shock for Gerald Kilmer.

The following high school games have been either cancelled or postponed for Friday, December 19th.