Jackson News

Lansing officer faces felony charge in Jackson Co. Christine Rook * clrook@lsj.com * July 9, 2008 * From Lansing State Journal A Lansing police officer is accused of stalking and harassing a Blackman Township ...

For the first time in more than 20 years, the organizers of the Harbor Fest musical festival in Racine, Wis., were forced to cancel their seminal summertime event on the shores of Lake Michigan.

Two weeks ago, I was having dinner all by my lonesome following a day of sailboat racing at Portage Yacht Club near Pinckney.

Despite rising unemployment in Jackson County, residents are buying lottery tickets like crazy -- more than $35 million last year alone.

A Detroit man whose driver's license has been suspended 22 times has been sentenced to 13 to 20 years in prison in what authorities describe as an extreme case of road rage.

The charter school, which enrolled about 270 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, will not reopen this fall because Grand Valley State University has declined to renew its charter after a 10-year ...

THE APPLICATION HAS BEEN SUBMITTED TO THE STATE. THE ENTERPRISE GROUP'S CEO SCOTT FLEMMING SAID THE APPLICATION ITS SELF WAS HELPFUL.

LIEUTENANT ERIC TROJANOWICZ OF THE INGHAM COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT SAID THE ACCIDENT HAPPENED NORTH OF HOLT ROAD.

Steven Higgins was abandoned by his parents as a boy, bounced around the foster care system, and rarely has tasted freedom as an adult.

Man, 19, arrested, faces attempted murder charge A city police officer arrested a Jackson man for attempted murder early this morning after allegedly witnessing him steal a car with the owner attached.

Drive through Jackson County you'll probably see fewer police cars with flashing lights on the roads.

Norvell Road is a rural route Jackson sheriff's deputies say two Brooklyn women were driving down close to five Saturday morning when one of them crossed the center lane and hit the other head on.

Official: Stabbing occurred at home, clubbing on street Thursday, June 26, 2008 BY STEVEN HEPKER JACKSON - An Ypsilanti man is accused of stabbing his mother in the back with a dinner fork and clubbing another ...

He was taken to the University of Michigan hospital after a car accident early Saturday morning that killed three people.

AFTER 27 YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE CITY OF JACKSON, CAPTAIN ROBERT WOODMAN OF THE JACKSON FIRE DEPARTMENT IS RETIRING.

After the end of World War I, when Robert Curtis was a young boy growing up in Jackson, he and family members would make the trip south to Clark Lake by horse-drawn carriage.

JACKSON, Mich. - A man was accused of stabbing his mother with a fork and assaulting a second woman with 10 pounds of frozen chicken.

The new surface, which will look and feel more like grass, will restore the stadium as one of the state's top football facilities, said Jackson Athletic Director Russell Davis.

A Jackson, Mich., couple have been sentenced for driving a U-Haul truck through North Dakota fields in an attempt to escape police after not paying for gas.

For the Citizen Patriot After getting an inside look at an emergency room, Chris Bell feels prepared for an emergency situation.