Experts say there's no single reason for the big drop in alcohol-related crashes and deaths in Michigan over the past decade.
Michigan had 4,007 crashes linked to alcohol in 2010, down 38 percent from 6,485 in 2001, according to police records.
A chimney fire was just one of the incidents that kept Ferrysburg firefighters busy starting about 6 p.m. on Christmas Day, said Ferrysburg Fire Chief Mike Olthof.
A pole barn that served as a family storage building went up in flames late Sunday afternoon, not long after the residents had left home to attend a family Christmas function.
Three gunmen stormed into a crowded suburban Detroit roller rink and opened fire, shooting five people, at the tail-end of a pre-Christmas skating party early Friday.
Michigan State Police said preliminary reports indicate eight people lost their lives in eight separate traffic crashes last weekend - dubbed the 2011 Lifesaver Holiday Weekend.
Police investigating a suspicious PVC tube found near a utility box in Holland later discovered it was just a left-behind piece of PVC tube from recent utility work.
But it took calling out the Michigan State Police Bomb Squad to confirm that the pipe posed no safety hazard.
The Ottawa County Sheriff's Department is seeking information anyone might have in connection to an armed robbery early Monday morning at a Shell gas station in Park Township.
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