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Target 8’s Dirty Dining investigation leads to tracking changes
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) -- A Target 8 investigation into Kent County restaurant inspections has led to a change that now allows customers to more easily track violations that could make them sick....
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Dirty Dining: Back to school edition
KENT COUNTY, Mich. (WOOD) -- A back to school warning for parents: some Kent County cafeterias are not getting a top grade when it comes to food safety. Target 8 examined more than three years of...
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Child, 3, removed from GR home after parents’ fatal heroin overdose
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A 3-year-old girl is in foster care after her parents died of suspected heroin overdoses the same day in their Grand Rapids home, court records show. The child was in the...
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Farming giant sued for $150M in unpaid bills
ZEELAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A West Michigan farming giant is facing more than a half-dozen lawsuits seeking damages of nearly $150 million. The series of lawsuits have been filed by various...
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Target 8: Baby’s death reveals gap in child protection system
LANSING, Mich. (WOOD) -- The 2015 overdose death of a Sparta baby has revealed a flaw in Michigan’s system to protect children. An undated courtesy photo of Chance Powell. While investigating the...
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Target 8: Dozens of child deaths not reported promptly to watchdog
LANSING, Mich. (WOOD) — Michigan’s child welfare agency failed to immediately report several dozen child deaths to a state-mandated watchdog agency, as required by law. “I was surprised, definitely...
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Kent County offers CPS help with drug-exposed babies
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — When Joann Hoganson saw Target 8’s 2016 story exposing the growing problem of infants born drug positive, she knew she could help. As director of the Community Wellness...
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Target 8 update: 100+ child deaths not reported to watchdog
LANSING, Mich. (WOOD) — In the week since Target 8 exposed a gap in Michigan’s child death reporting system, CPS has documented dozens of additional deaths the agency failed to report to a...
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GRPD officer on leave for excessive force investigation
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Target 8 has learned that a Grand Rapids police officer is under investigation for allegedly using excessive force. Target 8 received a tip from a viewer about Officer...
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Unlicensed roofer pleads guilty in botched job
IONIA, Mich. (WOOD) — An unlicensed contractor who made a mess of an Ionia couple’s roof will serve jail time for it. Dennis Upton pleaded guilty Tuesday afternoon in Ionia District Court to operating...
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Toxic tap water: Neighbors worry about illegal dump sites
PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Even the scientists were shocked by what they found in Sandy Wynn-Stelt’s drinking water in July. Now she’s wondering whether some of it could be coming from a...
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Homes built after township noted possible contamination
PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Plainfield Township approved the building of seven homes and a National Guard armory, with wells for drinking water, near the Wolverine Worldwide dump site even...
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Health Dept. studying cancer clusters near 3 dumps
PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — The Kent County Health Department is launching its most expansive cancer cluster study ever in response to contaminated groundwater next to a former Wolverine...
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Wolverine Worldwide dumping raises fish safety concerns
ROCKFORD, Mich. (WOOD) — Wolverine Worldwide’s past dumping along the Rogue River in Rockford is raising concerns about the health of the fish that live there. Thursday, Target 8 found a mound of...
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Old photos map dumps linked to cancer study
ALGOMA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Old aerial photographs, some dating back nearly 80 years, help tell the story of old dump sites now at the center of a planned cancer cluster study. The Kent County...
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Grand Rapids ends secret meetings exposed by Target 8
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The Grand Rapids City Commission will no longer hold secret meetings in response to a Target 8 investigation that questioned their legality, the city manager said. “I...
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Neighbors near 12 Mile dump want water tests
ALGOMA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Neighbors around a small, long-closed landfill north of Rockford, where a former truck driver said he once dumped Wolverine Worldwide sludge, say they want their well...
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Target 8: Spectrum Health patient records left on resold fax
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Target 8 has uncovered another leak of patient information at Spectrum Health. “I want them to say sorry,” said one victim of the security breach. In August, 24 Hour News...
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FBI: Best protection against identity theft is you
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A number of high-profile breaches of private information are raising concerns around the country: Equifax, Yahoo and the breach of Spectrum Health patient information that...
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‘No form for their screwup’: IRS mails wrong return
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Imagine opening a package from the IRS and finding someone else’s tax return inside. That’s exactly what happened to an Allegan County man. He turned to Target 8 when he...
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