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Missing for 34 years, but not a ‘missing person’
BOSSIER PARISH, La. (WOOD) -- Police in Louisiana say they likely would have identified the remains of Carol Ann Cole long ago, saving the Kalamazoo family years of misery, had she only been listed as...
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Target 8: People of color underrepresented on W. MI juries?
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) -- There's a push for change in the way our state selects juries for criminal trials after some critics say defendants aren't being granted a jury of their peers in West...
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Target 8: Does race affect a jury’s decision?
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) -- A man who was convicted of murder by an all-white jury in 1993 and took his case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court told Target 8 he is serving a life term because he...
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Jessica Heeringa case: Link to a dead man?
NORTON SHORES, Mich. (WOOD) -- More than two years after Jessica Heeringa disappeared from a Norton Shores gas station, one name keeps popping up: Brad Mason. Kalamazoo police were arresting the...
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Video shows 17-year-old’s wrongful arrest
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The City of Grand Rapids has released video depicting the 2014 incident in which an innocent 17-year-old was arrested by police as he ran home to make curfew. The video...
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Beyond the mammogram: Paying for peace of mind
LANSING, Mich. (WOOD) -- While Michigan doctors will soon have to release breast density information to women, how patients pay for follow-up tests -- should they decide to get further screening -- is...
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Experts share secrets to creating, managing passwords
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) -- If you're constantly resetting passwords because you can't remember the last one you created, consider the method information technology professionals use: the password...
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More than $100K for test to ID identical twin rapist
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) -- Police say a cutting-edge DNA test could identify which identical twin was the stranger who raped a student 16 years ago in downtown Grand Rapids, but sticker shock is...
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Lawmakers seek answers on faulty Takata air bags
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers expressed frustration Tuesday over the progress of a recall of millions of defective air bags, pointing out that it’s still unclear what’s causing the air bags to rupture,...
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Target 8: Too sick for jail
WEST OLIVE, Mich. (WOOD) -- Some defendants are allowed to remain out of the custody of county jails because their medical costs are deemed to be too high for the taxpayers to foot the bill. State law...
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Target 8: Two dead children, one suspect
JACKSON, Mich. (WOOD) -- J.D. and Chere Pepper were scheduled to pick up their grandson for a visit when they got a call that the toddler's mom had found the 21-month-old dead in his crib. "It's not...
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Police: Suspect may have used murdered wife’s Facebook
FENNVILLE, Mich. (WOOD) — Nearly six months after Harold “Butch” Knight allegedly strangled his wife before fleeing to Maine, detectives say it appears he has reached out to family through Facebook....
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Danger on duty: Deputy in crash has poor driving history
BLOOMINGDALE, MICH. (WOOD) -- The Van Buren County sheriff's deputy who reached 122 mph in a chase before crashing from behind into a family's car and critically injuring a teenaged boy had been...
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Hearing still pending over crash-prone deputy
PAW PAW, Mich. (WOOD) — A Van Buren County sheriff’s deputy with a long history of bad driving is still on the job, still working at the jail, after a disciplinary hearing on Monday over a chase that...
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Intern in collision doesn’t blame crash-prone deputy
BLOOMINGDALE, Mich. (WOOD) — The intern who was riding along with a deputy in a high-speed crash that critically injured a teenager defended the deputy and said he shouldn’t face discipline. “It’s...
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Target 8: Getting the scoop on restaurants
HOLLAND, Mich. (WOOD) -- It's pretty incredible how often we skip a home cooked meal to eat out. Perhaps it's even more incredible what you don't know about your local restaurants. You can check up on...
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Health insurer offers cash for shopping around
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Michigan health insurance company is giving its members more incentive to shop around before their next doctor’s visit. Target 8 investigated health care costs last...
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Man used app to get explicit pictures of girls
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A 32-year-old West Michigan man was sentenced in a Grand Rapids courtroom Tuesday after he convinced three teenage girls to send him explicit pictures of themselves to him...
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Doctor allegedly sold prescriptions to ‘junkies’
MUSKEGON (WOOD) -- A doctor who once served as a state representative is under federal investigation, suspected of writing prescriptions from his car to known drug users and dealers. In an emergency...
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Patients defend doctor accused of selling scripts
LANSING, Mich. (WOOD) — A day after a Target 8 investigation into allegations that a doctor was illegally selling prescriptions to junkies, some of his patients came to his defense. Those patients of...
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