Sparta News

This lot in Wyoming at 3480 S. Division Ave. was the site of a gas station. Kent County is poised to add a land bank authority as another tool to combat foreclosed homes and abandoned property, under a proposal headed to the Kent County Board of Commissioners.

Major health care projects like the new Helen DeVos Children's Hospital have dried up in today's economy.

A group of MSU researchers is helping fruit farmers across the state increase their crop yield and cut costs with the help of sex chemicals from female moths.

Kent county sheriff's deputies and the Sparta police ended up chasing a 13-year old girl yesterday.

SPARTA, Mich. Police in Sparta say a 13-year-old girl led them on a high speed chase over the weekend.

A 13-year-old girl took her family's van and led police on a three-mile chase Sunday, Sparta police say.

A 13-year-old girl led Sparta police on a three-mile, three-minute chase Sunday afternoon.

There is a warning out to lock your car doors after a rash of break-ins in Kent County.

Several West Michigan school administrators are closing individual campuses and in the case of Saranac, an entire district because of illnesses.

Police now say Timothy Dawson is a suspect in his wife Julia's murder. He is the only suspect to be named since her body was found along U.S. 131 in Montcalm County in January.

The Kent County Sheriff's Department is looking into several complaints of car break-ins. They happened in Algoma, Sparta, and Tyrone Townships in the northwest section of the county.

ArtPrize's top 10 felt the glory Thursday evening. But ArtPrize still has another list that didn't see a celebration: its 25 most controversial.

Michigan State police are investigating an accident that split a car in two, knocked a semi on its side and left two people hospitalized early this morning.

Violinist Ritsu Katsumata knows some people are "just being polite" when they talk to her and her photographer husband Stafford Smith about "Fearscape," their cutting-edge ArtPrize exhibit at the Old Federal Building.

Sparta police chief Andrew Milanowski tells NewsRadio WOOD 1300 Hull was arrested the day of the bomb threat for a seperate charge filed by the Kent County Sheriffs Department.

Peter's Lutheran Church, Fellowship Hall, 310 E. Division, Rockford. Seniors "Out to Lunch Bunch" - Enjoy lunch at Maxfields Restaurant , stopping at Mary's Bakery for Amish baked goods and Klackles Orchards for apples on the way back.

SPARTA, Mich. The Sparta High School is under lock down. Sparta police say that someone called in a bomb threat at the school Friday morning.

Crews airlifted a teenager to the hospital after a serious Kent County crash. Deputies say 17-year-old Samuel Limon ran a stop sign at the intersection of 14 Mile and Fruit Ridge near Sparta.

A 17-year-old Sparta driver was taken via helicopter Sunday to Butterworth Hospital with head injuries after he failed to stop for a sign at 14 Mile Road NW and Fruit Ridge Avenue, plowing into a truck, according to police.

SPARTA, Mich. - A performance artist from Michigan is moving up in the art world by appearing not to move at all while posing as a human statue.