LANSING - Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette wants to empanel a grand jury to investigate the recent meningitis outbreak -- allegedly caused by a contaminated steroid -- that has been blamed for 259 cases of meningitis and 14 deaths in the state.
PARCHMENT, MI -- Members of the Parchment School District Board of Education aren't saying why they approved a financial settlement in exchange for the resignation of John Thompson, a Parchment administrator convicted last fall in a drunken-driving case that included a 120-mph police chase.
LANSING -- Democrats in the state House of Representatives have big plans to ease the tax burden on middle-class families. They plan to introduce bills that will repeal the tax passed in 2011 on seniors' pension income, restore the Earned Income Tax Credit to 11%, as well as child deductions and the homestead property tax credit.
ST. JOSEPH - February showed a continuing recovery in the local housing market, according to Gary Walter, executive vice president of the Southwestern Michigan Association of Realtors.
On Monday, John C. Knapp, founding director of the Frances Marlin Mann Center for Ethics and Leadership at Samford University in Birmingham, Ala., was chosen to be Hope College's next president.
