Midland News

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It's time for government to return to fiscal responsibility and restrict its size and influence to constitutional limits, said Michael C. Trainer, 52, of Midland.

Maj. Miles Gengler, an Army reservist from Grand Blanc and master multitasker, has been in Baghdad, Iraq, for four months with a unit assigned to train the Iraqi military.

The June 24 slaying of Rick D. Savage's longtime insurance client, Saginaw Township's Roy H. LaFray, prompted Savage to offer a $5,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of those responsible.

Two people were killed in an apartment fire Wednesday morning in Midland. The fire broke out shortly before 1 a.m. at Robin Oaks Apartments on Eastlawn Drive.

MIDLAND, Mich. - Two people have been killed in an apartment fire in Midland. WSGW-AM and WNEM-TV say a man and a woman died after fire broke out in the Robin Oaks Apartments, about 105 miles north-northwest of Detroit.

A Midland County man is headed to trial on charges that he masterminded a plot to kill his estranged wife and hired his nephew to be the hit man.

Jeff Lauer will become the new curriculum development administrator for the Midland Public Schools, a position funded through the enhancement millage voters OK'd in May.

The Midland Public Schools Board of Education has appointed two principals. Pam Kastl becomes principal and Brian Frankovich, assistant principal, at Dow High School.

An opponent of Michigan's film tax incentive said a multiplier used in a Michigan State University report to calculate the program's benefits would likely indicate "negative job creation" if program costs - namely the hit to taxpayers - were taken into account.

Opinionline Archives Find a way to be a good father, with or without a role model Kendra L. Shrode - Midland, Mich.

The National Weather Service in Detroit is tracking a storm across the midsection of lower Michigan.

Is Midland the best tennis town in America? If you think so, the Midland Community Tennis Center is asking for your help.

Budget woes are forcing cuts for Midland Public Schools. At least 54 full-time positions are now on the chopping block following Monday night's vote.

A new full-service Holiday Inn is now open in Midland. Holiday Inn of Midland, 810 Cinema Dr., features 176 guest rooms.

A financial planning firm has settled all but one claim related to an embezzlement scheme conducted by a rogue adviser over an eight-year period ending in March 2008.

Registration continues for the Midland Public Schools' new online summer school, though courses are filling up.

Midland Police said they are searching for a man they say tried to abduct a 17-year-old girl.

Police here continue to investigate a possible abduction attempt on the Pere Marquette Rail-Trail. A 17-year-old Midland resident told sheriff's deputies she was in-line skating on the trail near Dublin about 10:45 p.m. Friday when a man jumped from the side of the trail and grabbed her, said Capt.

Downtown Midland will be hosting live music from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Every Thursday this summer at the city's annual "Tunes by the Tridge." Music ranges from jazz, classic rock and country, an Elvis and Roy Orbison impersonator and everything in between.