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Contractor headed to trial for unfinished work
GRAND RAPIDS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A judge says there is enough evidence to send an East Grand Rapids contractor to trial for allegedly taking clients’ money but never finishing the work he was...
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Video challenged in Jodi Parrack perjury case
CONSTANTINE, Mich. (WOOD) — Citing iffy evidence and shady interrogation practices, attorneys from two university innocence clinics are working to clear the name of Constantine man who spent nearly...
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88-year-old nearly scammed by fake lottery, warns others
UNDATED (WOOD) — At first, she thought her prayers had been answered. “I need the money so bad,” explained Betty, whose last name is not being used to protect her from additional solicitations. The...
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Target 8 finds Montcalm Co. violated own dumping rules
BELVIDERE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Montcalm County plans to clean up a county property following a call from Target 8. In June, the county tore down the bathrooms at Schmeid Park, which sits along the...
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Woman who ripped off elderly couple must pay nearly $6K
HUDSONVILLE, Mich. (WOOD) — The estate sale manager accused of ripping off a couple from Ottawa County is avoiding jail time, but has been order to pay them back. Selina Hernandez pleaded no contest...
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Police: Sheriff’s son gave gun to murder suspect
PAW PAW, Mich. (WOOD) — The son of the Van Buren County sheriff faces charges for allegedly providing the gun used in a homicide near Bangor earlier this year. The Michigan Attorney General’s Office...
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Check your address: Zillow lists false foreclosures
BROOKS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Pete and Pat Hall were on vacation when their realtor called to tell them she had gotten a bite on their home. But the potential buyers had a concern: The house on...
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Man who died at McDonald’s OD’d twice on same day
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The man who died of a heroin overdose in the bathroom of a Grand Rapids McDonald’s six weeks ago had overdosed at a different restaurant earlier the same day, police...
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Inmate denied freedom despite years aiding authorities
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — James Hicks says he's one of the most hated inmates in the Michigan prison system. It's because of all the help he's given to federal, state and local cops while he's been...
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City on fire: 50 years after Grand Rapids’ race riot
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Fifty years after a riot burned parts of Grand Rapids, the scars remain. The 1967 race riot was part of a nationwide movement brought on by poverty, poor treatment and...
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Photos: 1967 Grand Rapids race riot
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — For three days in July 1967, parts of Grand Rapids were plagued by fires and violence as a race riot erupted. These photos, courtesy The Grand Rapids Press Archives via...
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50 years after Grand Rapids riot, black poverty worse
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — For three days, parts of Grand Rapids burned. A race riot erupted in the city 50 years ago — on July 25, 1967 — fueled in part by discrimination, poverty and mistrust. A...
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Grand Rapids race riot: Firebombs, gunshots and blood
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Fifty years after the Grand Rapids riot, the memories are still clear to those who rioted, to the police officers who responded, and to the innocents who were caught up in...
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GR race initiative’s goals: Education, jobs
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Several months after the July 1967 race riot devastated parts of Grand Rapids, a report listed a dozen challenges the city’s blacks faced. At the top of the list in the...
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Police: CPS didn’t call back on baby in car weeks before death
WYOMING, Mich. (WOOD) — A report obtained by Target 8 shows Children’s Protective Services failed to call Wyoming police back immediately after officers discovered a baby left unattended in a vehicle....
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Repeat drunken driver takes deal in deadly crash
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Under a plea deal, a repeat drunken driver who hit and killed a Grand Rapids grandmother could be ordered to 2.5 to just under five years in prison. In Kent County Circuit...
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W MI vets struggle as VA weans thousands off opioids
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Andrew Lapres had a tough time finding family pictures to share with Target 8. “I realized there’s not a whole lot of pictures of me with the kids because I’m always the...
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Leader denies group is neo-Nazi: ‘Witch hunt’
ALLENDALE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Civil rights advocates say Grand Rapids is home to a neo-Nazi group, but the leader of that group denies any Nazi involvement. On its website, the Southern Poverty...
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Mistake may have put child at risk in kidnapping
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A mistake by a well-known child welfare agency could have put a West Michigan toddler at risk before she was kidnapped earlier this year. The Office of Children’s...
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Man finds it can be hard to return $6,000
WYOMING, Mich. (WOOD) — An extra $6,000 showing up in your bank account from out of nowhere might sound like the start of a pretty good day, but for one Wyoming man, it was a baffling headache. When...
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