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Driver who struck and killed bald eagle feels 'awful'

Muskegon News - Federal Bald Eagle Protection Act of 1940 makes criminal hunting, killing or otherwise harming eagles.

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Downtown Kalamazoo newsstand thrives in face of sour economy

Downtown Kalamazoo newsstand thrives in face of sour economy

West Michigan Business - Dean Hauck first walked into the door of the Michigan News Agency when she was 10 years old. It was the late 1940s and the young lady immediately fell in love with the downtown Kalamazoo...

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Salute to love at Spring Lake District Library

Muskegon News - SPRING LAKE - Spring Lake District Library will host a free, live performance reminiscent of the radio shows of the 1940s in honor of Valentine's Day...

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Legendary Hope College men's basketball coach Russ DeVette dies at age 86

Legendary Hope College men's basketball coach Russ DeVette dies at age 86

Michigan Sports - DeVette, the first recipient of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association's Most Valuable Player award in basketball in the 1940s, also coached football, baseball and women's track...

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Brothers Kelvin and Kevin Grady score in Michigan's rout of Delaware State

Michigan Sports - The Gradys are thought to be the first brothers to score touchdowns in the same game for the Wolverines since Bump and Pete Elliott in the 1940s.

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Son delves into father's past in Juan Gabriel Vasquez's The Informers

Michigan Lifestyles - The Informers, Juan Gabriel Vasquez's ambitious first novel, centers on events that took place in 1940s Colombia. It is a measure of his skills...

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Midwest July Temperatures

Midwest July Temperatures

WOOD TV Blogs - Click here for full screen. This is the NCDC (National Climate Data Center) data graph of combined July temperatures in the North Central Region over the past 100 plus years. Here in Grand Rapids, only...

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Tension fuels haunting of Hundreds Hall in The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

Michigan Lifestyles - Sarah Waters novel The Little Stranger is a mixture of psychological ghostpoltergeist story that reads like a 19th century gothic novel even though...

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