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Haitian Flag Day is officially celebrated on May 18, but there is one group here in West Michigan celebrating this weekend.

A challenge for many female business owners, is understanding how to navigate the business certification program.

Andor, a male doberman, sits as he finds an unmarked grave with owner Pam Burns of Sanford, right, and Joan Hoffman of Pleasant Lake during a search of a cemetery for unmarked graves on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at St.

Job training programs at Grand Rapids Community College will get a boost thanks to a $700,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

A literacy program being piloted now in Jackson Public Schools likely will be expanded to Michigan Center students next year.

Teammates swarm to hug Grass Lake's Julia Covill after her race Tuesday, May 7, during their triangular meet against Vandercook Lake and Michigan Center at Vandercook Lake High School.

In opting for an insanity defense against 13 counts of sexual impropriety, former Vicksburg Middle School Principal Greg Tibbetts and his attorney are attempting a rarely used strategy with a poor track record of success.

Readers submitted photos from proms throughout the Jackson area last weekend. We put the call out for photos from any and all proms, and ended up with 17 photos from Grass Lake, Lumen Christi and Western.

During the second decade of the 21st century, America faces a nursing labor shortage across the country, with most of the pain in the South and West.

ASH, Jessica N., and WAGNER, Robert L., of Parma, a daughter, Addison Nicole Wagner, born April 30, 10 pounds, 4 ounces at Allegiance Health.

Michigan Center High School was one of three high schools that raided downtown Jackson on Saturday night for their 2013 prom.

America's emergency, trauma and intensive care teams provide some of the world's most advanced care, bringing patients back from the brink of death on a regular basis.

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The University of Michigan Medical School has unveiled the Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care , which will bring together a host of experts - including not only doctors, but also engineers and scientists - whose diverse backgrounds will allow for advanced treatment of patients who suffer from a range of potentially lethal ... (more)

In 2007, warning of a nurse shortage in Michigan and long admission waiting lists for nursing schools, then- Gov.

Eugene McIntee may not be the oldest mall-walker to pace the corridors of Jackson Crossing, but at 97 he must be close.

Members of the Jackson Area Career Center Future Farmers of America program enter one of their three greenhouses Thursday, April 25.

For special-education students in the Jackson County Intermediate School District, a positive outlook can make a world of difference.

The following are drinking and driving sentences from Jackson County District Court.

Crime against nature: Kurtis Peterson, 37, was sentenced to one to 15 years in state prison for repeatedly having sex with dogs A convicted sex offender from Michigan has been sentenced to one-to-15 years in a state prison for repeatedly having sex with dogs.