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Local students recover credits online

Fri, Sep 5, 2008
With new graduation requirements and graduation rate calculations in Michigan, this is the first of a series of articles to be published this fall about how area schools are working to help students succeed. Grand Haven and Fruitport schools piloted online instructional software programs during summer school and are now implementing the programs this school year.

Detroit mayor talks of comeback

Fri, Sep 5, 2008
DETROIT — Only hours after agreeing to resign and serve time in jail as part of plea deal, Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick expressed regret for the scandal that has engulfed the city — and left the door open for a return to public life. Kilpatrick walked into a City Hall conference room Thursday to thunderous applause and thanked his family, backers and staff members for sticking by him during his rocky 6 1/2-year tenure.

LOCAL NEWS Headlines for -

• Local students recover credits online
• Detroit mayor talks of comeback
• County seeking grant to build fishing facilities
• Several injured Monday when ride at Holland's Dutch Village malfunctions
• GVSU has record enrollment, up 1.8 percent
• Museum hosts preschool program Tuesday
• St. John's Lutheran School opens with changes
• Village sues over historic home renovations

POLICE BLOTTER

• Police run down robber of GH gas station
• Ex-Wharf Marina operator faces fed charges
• Police looking for hit-and-run pickup driver
• Rotor came off medical helicopter, police say
• Two businesses cited in tobacco sting
• Mount Pleasant woman charged in candy scam
• Wave sends boaters through windshield
• Teens arrested in vending machine robbery
• Police stop erratically driven MegaBus in southwest Michigan
• GHT man injured after rolling his car
• Authorities seize 1,000 marijuana plants
• Hundreds of barrels discovered in Mich. field
• Alleged thief leaves clue — his own signature

Arts/Entertainment

• Stand Up to Cancer telethon takes over network TV

• GH In-Water Boat Show is Sept. 12-14

• Grand Valley feature film to play at GH 9

• Tuesday Musicale holds first meeting Sept. 9