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As incoming college students unload their lives into their dorms this month, most will be concerned about paying for tuition and finding their classes — not what to do should an emergency occur. Although college administrators nationwide re-evaluate campus security…
Students battling increasing higher education costs are digging deeper than ever into their pockets. Combine rising tuition costs with declining opportunities for state and federal aid, and those expenses add up quickly. The lack of money has dented Julie Kenyon’s…
MIDDLEVILLE — With a new job, a birthday next week and a baby on the way, it seemed things were looking up for 20-year-old Andrew Paul Brown. But his life was cut short Friday after his Kawasaki motorcycle slammed into…
On the one hand, antique furniture prices have dropped as tastes have shifted. On the other, the PBS hit “Antiques Roadshow” — coming to town Saturday — has increased interest in antiques. (Press Photo/Rex Larsen)
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Barbara LaPonsie, left, talks Wednesday with Kathy Bartz, a cashier at D’Amico’s Food Market on Plainfield Avenue NW. State lawmakers have created a tax break to entice grocers to expand or relocate in areas where low-income residents don’t have ready access to full-service groceries and healthy foods. These places, dubbed “food deserts,” are scattered throughout Grand Rapids. (Press Photo/Katie Barnes)
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Paula Ellis sits beneath a photo of her father, the late Bishop William C. Abney, in her home on July 10. Ellis sells traditional church hats to members of Bethel Pentecostal, where her father was bishop. (Press Photo/Emily Zoladz)
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U.S. Coast Guard investigators are asking for help in finding the source of hundreds of pounds of trash that washed up on the Lake Michigan shoreline earlier this week from Holland to Manistee. Some pieces of trash have Milwaukee addresses on them — including a “No Dumping City of Milwaukee” sign. (AP Photo)
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GRAND RAPIDS — Area politicos hosted two vastly different parties here today. Press Photo/Dave Raczkowski Michigan Democratic Party Chairman, Mark Brewer, addresses a group of Obama supporters at Millennium Park. They were rallying to counter John McCain’s $2,300 a plate…
Abdoulaye Ndiaye, of Lansing, holds an American flag to his chest during the Wednesday morning naturalization ceremony at Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum. Ndiaye is originally from West Africa. (Press Photo/Emily Zoladz)
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A bill signed by Gov. Jennifer Granholm last week known as Ashleigh Iserman’s Law, will raise the minimum age to operate a boat or jet ski without supervision from age 14 to 16. That means that young boaters like C.J. Anastor, 10, of Spring Lake, front, and Jacob Vanderlee, 12, won’t be able to tool around the lake on their own. (Press Photo/Kristi Jourdan)
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