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Target 8 tracks down missing $4,000 tax return
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Nearly three months after the Internal Revenue Service issued a Grand Rapids woman’s tax return, she still hadn’t received a check and grew concerned that she was the...
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Dirty Dining: Fingernails, bandages and a rat tail
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) – It started with a quick visit by young cousins to a Grand Rapids restaurant and ended with a rat tail curled up in a crab rangoon. “We was hungry, so we walked down...
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Dirty Dining: Rising from the roaches
WYOMING, Mich, (WOOD) — At Elizabeth’s Kitchen, cockroaches were winning the pest control war. Kent County Health Department inspectors first found them in March 2015 — live roaches in the kitchen,...
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Dirty Dining: Life after XO Asian Cuisine
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) – The basement of the old XO Asian Cuisine restaurant was like a scene from a horror movie: roaches, food stored below leaky sewage pipes and dead rats. They were among the...
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Dirty Dining: Health director says flaws need fixing
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The director of the Kent County Health Department said Target 8’s “Dirty Dining” investigation has revealed flaws in the restaurant inspection system that need fixing. One...
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A Killer Among Us: Inside West Michigan’s opioid epidemic
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — On a Monday morning in April, detectives with the Kent Area Narcotics Enforcement Team were positioned throughout a large apartment complex in Gaines Township, watching a...
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Emergency at lipo pole barn: ‘Weird s*** going on’
GANGES TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Emergency dispatch recordings reveal how first responders reacted after realizing that the rural Allegan County pole barn where they had been called was a doctor’s...
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Undercover with vice team to take down heroin dealer
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A heroin dealer taken down in a broad daylight bust told Target 8 he feels guilty “in a way” for selling a drug that he calls “high risk.” “Don’t nobody never know (what’s...
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Descent into opioid addiction captured on video
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A man’s determination to show a drug-addicted friend just how far she had fallen offers a rare and raw glimpse into the world of opioid addiction. “I just wanted to record...
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Baby among those killed by opioids in Kent County’s deadliest year
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — At only 10 months old, Chance Powell was the youngest victim of the opioid epidemic in Kent County in 2015, the deadliest year the county has seen yet. Powell, who lived...
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Addiction expert: Doctors duped, must help fix opioid epidemic
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Grand Rapids doctor who specializes in addiction medicine says the medical industry is to blame for the rising opioid epidemic now claiming countless lives. “Physicians...
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EGR contractor charged over unfinished work
EAST GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Jeffrey Stoltz was known to many around East Grand Rapids. The contractor had children in East Grand Rapids schools and was a member of the city’s Construction...
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Michigan’s protections against unlicensed contractors lacking
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Unlicensed contractors can illegally hold your property hostage with a piece of paper and state law lets them get away with it. That’s what Target 8 investigators found...
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Public overdoses evidence of growing opioid crisis
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Overdoses in public places aren’t so unusual anymore. The Grand Rapids Police Department has not released the name of the man who died Wednesday afternoon after being...
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Painkillers, heroin take lives of 84 in Kent Co. in 2015
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — They were strangers on earth, but dozens of people who died in 2015 will be forever connected by the way their lives ended. At least 84 of the recorded 109 fatal drug...
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Crooks promise blacktop, bail with cash
LYONS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Korean War veteran and his wife are putting out a warning after losing thousands of dollars to a scam targeting West Michigan residents. John Polhamus, 84, and his wife Ruth,...
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Local asphalt company fixes couple’s botched driveway
LYONS, Mich. (WOOD) — A Korean War veteran and his wife who were scammed out of $9,000 by a fake paving company have a new driveway. Jeff Kresnak owns Superior Asphalt. After seeing Target 8’s story...
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Pain patients also victims in war on opioid epidemic
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — There’s no question opioids have devastated countless lives, killing tens of thousands of Americans yearly. But they’ve saved many others. “I do not like to hear fentanyl...
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W. MI mom: Overdose epidemic didn’t just happen yesterday
GRANDVILLE, Mich. (WOOD) — A Grandville mom has a message to share amid the constant barrage of reports examining the overdose epidemic. “It didn’t just happen yesterday. This has been going on for...
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PD: Scamming landlady stole from elderly neighbor
WYOMING, Mich. (WOOD) — The Wyoming landlady who admitted to ripping off would-be renters is now charged with stealing credit cards from an elderly neighbor. The last time Target 8 caught up with...
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