A state commission has rejected union appeals and upheld the privatization of about 150 nursing aide jobs at the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans as part of a cost-cutting effort.
A federal judge has sentenced a woman to a year in prison for failing to pay nearly $1 million in taxes she owed from income from several northern Michigan movie theaters she owned.
A woman who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the stabbing death of her boyfriend during an argument in a Grand Rapids cemetery has been sentenced to up to 90 years in prison.