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Michigan Marks Crash Responder Safety Week With Move
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LANSING, Mich. — Drivers who come up on flashing lights along a Michigan road this week are getting …

Nov 3
Grand Rapids Upgrades Warning Sirens, Starts Year-Round Tests
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Grand Rapids residents will hear the city's outdoor warning sirens all year no…

Nov 3
Lyon and Fountain Could Become Two-Way Streets in Grand Rapids
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Two of the main one-way routes through Heritage Hill in Grand Rapids could soo…

Nov 2
Indian Mounds Drive Plan Would Limit Cars in Grand Rapids
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Most cars would be kept off Indian Mounds Drive in Grand Rapids, Mich., under …

Oct 30
Firefighters Pull Man From Burning Home in Grand Rapids
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Two adults went to the hospital Saturday evening after fire broke out in a sin…

Oct 26
Grand Rapids Man Gets 20 Years for Mailing Cocaine From Arizona
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Cordairo Lambert, a 39-year-old Grand Rapids man, is headed to federal prison …

Oct 22
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Grand Rapids is in Kent County, Michigan. Kent County Sheriff: Michelle LaJoye-Young.

Latest Grand Rapids Public Safety News

  1. Grand Rapids Upgrades Warning Sirens, Starts Year-Round Tests

    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Grand Rapids residents will hear the city's outdoor warning sirens all year now. The city has finished an upgrade to the system and will…

  2. Firefighters Pull Man From Burning Home in Grand Rapids

    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Two adults went to the hospital Saturday evening after fire broke out in a single-story home on Russwood Street NE on the north side…

  3. Nine Dead After Learjet Plunges Onto Florida Roadway

    GREENACRES, Fla. — Federal investigators are set to brief the public Monday in West Palm Beach on the crash of a Learjet 60 that fell out of a…

  4. Oman Evacuates 25 From Burning Tanker

    MUSCAT, Oman — Omani forces pulled 25 crew members off a crude oil tanker that was hit and set on fire near the Strait of Hormuz on Friday,…

  5. Spain High-Speed Train Crash Kills 68

    URDA, Spain — Investigators in Spain are focusing on a decision made inside a Madrid rail control room after a high-speed train plowed into the back of a…

  6. Three Killed as Two Helicopters Collide Near McMinnville

    MCMINNVILLE, Ore. — Three people died Thursday afternoon after two helicopters collided in the air and fell into a farm field a few miles from McMinnville Municipal Airport,…

  7. France Puts 70,000 Police on Streets as Louvre Closes

    PARIS — France sent roughly 70,000 police and security officers into its cities Saturday for a fresh round of nationwide protests, a week after demonstrations over the cost…

  8. Flash Flood Sends Mud Past Golf Course, Swamps Homes

    HURRICANE, Utah — Southwest Utah’s city of Hurricane is under a local emergency after a burst of heavy rain Thursday sent a wall of muddy water down Gould…

  9. Magnitude 7 Earthquake in Tibet Kills 16, Injures 76

    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…

  10. Deadly Fire at Canadian Army Base Began

    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…

  11. Two Fishermen Rescued From Grand River in Grand Rapids

    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Two fishermen who lost their footing in the Grand River were brought to safety by Grand Rapids firefighters on Sunday morning, Oct. 18, and…

  12. Truck Drives Onto Youth Soccer Field in Wichita, Killing 2

    WICHITA, Kan. — A pickup truck rolled onto a field during a youth soccer game at the Stryker Soccer Complex on Saturday afternoon, leaving a man, 35, and…