To be the best, Grand Haven's Matt Burns realized he needed to play against and with the best. As an attacker on the Grand Rapids-based True Lacrosse travel team, Burns is making the most of that opportunity. The team recently captured the championship at the National Scholastic Club Lacrosse Association Summer Championships, held in Metuchen, N.J. In the championship game on Sunday, True Lacrosse scored a 10-6 victory over a team from New York. Burns flourished during the three-day tournament, scoring 11 goals and dishing off five assists.

With just hours left before the national debt bumps against its ceiling, emergency bipartisan legislation to allow the government to borrow more faces one final test in the Senate. Expected passage there sends the bill to President Barack Obama, averting a potentially disastrous, first-ever government default and making a down payment toward taming out-of-control budget deficits.

A list of the nation's top party schools and top "stone-cold sober" schools, according to Princeton Review's survey of 122,000 college students, was released today. Calvin College in Grand Rapids is No. 7 on the list of "sober" colleges; while the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., is No. 4. Topping the list of the nation's party schools is Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. No Michigan college made the top 20 party schools this year.

Harbor Transit, in cooperation with the Grand Haven Department of Public Safety, will provide a designated handicap parking area for special needs guests on Saturday for the Coast Guard Festival Grand Parade, carnival, waterfront show and Fireworks Extravaganza. The handicap parking area also provides handicap accessible busses located on Harbor Island, just north of Coho Drive and a short distance southwest of the drawbridge.

Congress is moving quickly on an agreement to avert a potentially devastating default on U.S. obligations, with legislation that mixes a record increase in the government's borrowing cap with the promise of more than $2 trillion in spending cuts.