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'It haunts you': Hackers, hijackers lock up Facebook pages
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — If scammers take over your social media account, you’re encouraged to file a complaint with the Michigan attorney general’s office. The A.G.’s Office of Corporate...
View ArticlePrivate prison for detained immigrants about to reopen in Lake County
WEBBER TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Guards and medical staff have started training at the private prison that is about to reopen to house some of the growing number of immigrants in the country illegally...
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Driver charged in fatal bicycle crash at US-131 and Pearl in Grand Rapids
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Wyoming man is charged with a misdemeanor in a crash that killed a bicyclist near downtown Grand Rapids early this year. Steve Dowhan, 53, was hit and killed instantly...
View ArticleWoman accused of stealing from shuttered Grand Rapids nonprofit takes plea deal
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A bookkeeper accused of stealing well over a million dollars from a Grand Rapids nonprofit has agreed to plead to federal charges, court records show. Sharon Killebrew was...
View ArticleSlaying of elderly couple near Sheridan unsolved a year later
SIDNEY TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A year ago this month, a couple in their 80s, great-great grandparents with no known enemies, were shot to death in their home on a country road in Montcalm County. And...
View ArticleChurch to spend $500,000 to address history of sex abuse
Survivors can call the Michigan Sexual Assault Hotline at 1.855.VOICES4 (864.2374) anytime for access to support and resources. GEORGETOWN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A century-old church with deep ties...
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'He’s happy here': Fee cuts to adult foster care homes prompt worry
WYOMING, Mich. (WOOD) — Stacey Koetje’s voice broke as she recalled moving her brother, Todd Wallace, into his first adult foster care home 21 years ago. Wallace, now 44, was born with Down’s...
View ArticleNonprofit embezzler who 'betrayed vulnerable families' pleads guilty
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The former finance director of a nonprofit that prepared Grand Rapids children for kindergarten pleaded guilty Wednesday in an embezzlement scheme that forced the agency’s...
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