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SportsGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Grand Rapids Griffins are losing their hottest player for now, as goaltender Michal Postava has been summoned by the Detroit Red Wings for the rest of their trip out west. Griffins coach Dan Watson shared the news Wednesday night after…
SportsGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Jamie Phillips, a well-traveled goalie, is getting a look in the Grand Rapids Griffins net after the club handed him a tryout deal Wednesday. Phillips, 33, is entering his fifth season as a pro and his first with the Griffins. His…
From HERE DetroitDETROIT, Mich. — Ron Duguay, a flashy forward who spent almost three seasons with the Detroit Red Wings during a 12-year NHL career, has died at 69. The Red Wings and the New York Rangers both announced his death Thursday. He disclosed in February that…
From the HERE City State DeskANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan goes into a noon kickoff Saturday against sixth-ranked Indiana at Michigan Stadium leaning on a freshman quarterback and a running game that finally came to life a week ago. Tommy Carr is expected to make his first start after coming…
From the HERE City National DeskPHILADELPHIA, Pa. — The Philadelphia 76ers fell behind by 29 points in their home opener Thursday night and still walked off the floor winners, beating the Cleveland Cavaliers 114-106. Cleveland owned the first half, scoring 35 points in the opening quarter and 34 more in…
From the HERE City National DeskCHICAGO, Ill. — Caleb Williams outdueled Drake Maye on Thursday night, throwing for 308 yards and two touchdowns as the Chicago Bears beat the New England Patriots 30-24 at Soldier Field. Williams hit on 22 of 33 throws, his second start since returning from a…
From the HERE City National DeskMILWAUKEE — Three players who will not be in uniform for the Brewers-Rays World Series will still be part of it: Major League Baseball said Thursday that Boston pitcher Payton Tolle, veteran infielder Miguel Rojas and Toronto's Ernie Clement will work as player correspondents. Tolle…
From the HERE City National DeskNEW YORK — Sarah Strong of UConn and Southern California guard Watkins, the last two national players of the year, top the preseason All-America women's basketball team released Thursday by the national media panel. Notre Dame guard Hannah Hidalgo, Texas forward Madison Booker and Vanderbilt…
From the HERE City National DeskPHILADELPHIA, Pa. — LeBron James brushed aside President Donald Trump's latest attack Thursday night, laughing off the criticism after the Philadelphia 76ers rallied past Cleveland and suggesting it must have been a slow day for news. Earlier Thursday, Trump posted a video on social media…
From the HERE City National DeskMILWAUKEE — The Brewers and Rays open the World Series on Friday night with a labor fight hanging over the sport: if owners and players cannot agree on a new contract, these could be the final big league games for months. The current five-year collective…
From the HERE City National DeskBATON ROUGE, La. — Pro Football Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk, in his first season as head football coach at Southern University, has disclosed that he is living with Parkinson's disease. Faulk, 53, revealed the diagnosis as a guest on The Caring Neurologist, a podcast…
From the HERE City National DeskNEW YORK — JJ Watt is staying in the top chair. The former Houston Texans star signed a multiyear agreement Thursday that makes him the permanent lead analyst on his network's No. 1 NFL broadcast team, next to play-by-play voice Jim Nantz and sideline reporter…
From the HERE City State Desk
LANSING, Mich. — After three years of holding steady, enrollment at Michigan's public universities slipped again this fall. The state's 15 public campuses counted 254,107 students, down 5,223, or 2%, from 259,330 a year earlier, according to preliminary figures from the Michigan Association of State Universities. Graduate programs took the…
From the HERE City State Desk
LANSING, Mich. — A small summer experiment in one-on-one tutoring produced measurable gains for some of Michigan's youngest students, according to an independent evaluation the state released Friday, and it arrives as schools prepare to compete for a much larger pot of tutoring money. The 2026 Summer High Impact Tutoring…
Business
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Grand Rapids is looking for a developer to help decide what comes next for about 6.4 acres the city owns along the river north of downtown, among the largest public waterfront tracts still open for redevelopment. Two riverside parcels at 1101 and 1165 Monroe are in…
Business
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Drivers and shoppers heading into the West Side of Grand Rapids will soon pass under one of three new gateway arches, part of a $1.7 million effort to give the area's business districts a shared identity. Each of the three main commercial streets will get one…
Business
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The riverfront Acrisure Amphitheater wrapped up its first concert season in Grand Rapids with more than 400,000 people through the gates, and venue figures show about a third of them came from beyond the greater Grand Rapids area. The amphitheater hosted 50 public shows plus a…
Crime
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Cordairo Lambert, a 39-year-old Grand Rapids man, is headed to federal prison for two decades after a trial that traced cocaine packages shipped from Arizona back to him. Federal prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Michigan handled the case, which drew…
From the HERE City National Desk
NAGQU, Tibet — A powerful magnitude 7.0 earthquake rocked a remote, high-altitude stretch of China's Tibet region late Thursday, leaving 16 people dead and 76 others hurt, local officials said Friday. The quake hit Baqen County in the city of Nagqu at 10:33 p.m. local time. Officials with the Nagqu…
From the HERE City National Desk
WAINWRIGHT, Alberta — The fire that killed four Canadian soldiers and hurt 39 more at an Alberta army base last week started on an automatic grenade launcher range during routine training, Canada's top military police officer said Thursday. Brig. Gen. Vanessa Hanrahan, who leads Canada's military police as Provost Marshal,…
Politics
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Kent County will spend $18.5 million on an eight-story office tower in downtown Grand Rapids and plans to make it the new home of the county prosecutor and several court-related offices. The Kent County Board of Commissioners signed off on the deal Thursday. The building, south…
Politics
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Grand Rapids voters may see federal observers at their polling places on Nov. 3, after the U.S. Department of Justice notified the city that it will send election monitors. Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced Thursday that seven communities got the notices: Grand Rapids, Detroit, East…
From the HERE City State Desk
LANSING, Mich. — A dozen fire departments and townships across the Upper Peninsula and northern Michigan are getting more than $2.1 million in federal money for breathing gear, trucks, hoses and training. Slotkin and Peters, who represent Michigan in the U.S. Senate, shared the news Thursday. The dollars flow through…
From the HERE City State Desk
LANSING, Mich. — With federal Medicaid work requirements set to start Jan. 1, Michigan has rolled out an online screener to help Healthy Michigan Plan members figure out where they stand. The state health department, MDHHS, said the Michigan Work and Exemptions Screening Tool, called MI WEST, walks users through…
From the HERE City National Desk
LYON, France — Health officials in France have confirmed the first known human infection with Shamonda, a virus that until this year had only been documented in animals, mainly cattle. The patient had a badly weakened immune system and was being treated for a serious illness at the Hospices Civils…
From the HERE City National Desk
KINSHASA, Congo — The Ebola outbreak centered in Congo keeps widening, with confirmed cases now above 9,600 and the disease reaching an eighth Congolese province as well as a new country, Nigeria. World Health Organization figures through Oct. 19 count 9,637 confirmed cases and 4,646 confirmed deaths since the outbreak…
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