Andria Baker made a deal with her dad when she was in the 4th grade. She saw in the paper that an area senior with perfect attendance got a new car when he graduated because he had perfect attendance all through school. She had perfect attendance up to that point and made the [...]

I have been a big fan of police logs since the time I was attending Western Michigan University. There are multiple instances of hiliarity on a college campus every week.
Once a week or so (usually on Mondays) I take a look at the postings from the Escanaba police log as printed by the Daily [...]

Dobber’s Pasties, legendary Escanaba Pasty restaurant, was broken into last week. Two men and one woman, a Dobber’s employee, broke a window which set off the alarm and made off with about $1,200 and some credit card receipts - all of which were recovered upon the suspects arrests.
Dobber’s is an Escanaba and [...]

The history books show that former President Richard Nixon did (ahem, Watergate anyone?) and said some peculiar things. A 1974 edition of the Milwaukee Journal was recently uncovered in a wall during a renovation of the DNR’s Pocket Park office with an interesting headline - “Nixon Rules Out $1 Gas or Bread”.
We all know [...]

Steven Remsing has had his fill of bear hunting. The Sterling Heights man is recovering from wounds inflicted by a 430 pound black bear that he tangled with this past weekend. He was in the U.P. hunting black bear and after shooting one out of a tree it attacked his dog so he [...]

I recently mentioned a story about a family that discovered a battered orange life preserver with Edmund Fitzgerald stenciled on it. Many wondered if this was a hoax of some kind or if it could possibly be the real deal.
Cynthia Edwards has apparently put to rest any ideas of the ring’s authenticity or chance [...]

You can view the security camera footage from the convenience store where 72 year old ex-Marine Bill Barnes beat up a would-be pickpocket. Man, I hope I am that agile when I am 72.
Mr. Barnes, you can still throw a mean punch.
Watch it at Mlive.com.

Awesome.
As 72 year old ex-Marine Bill Barnes was scratching off a lottery ticket at a Grand Rapids convenience store a 27 year old would-be thief tried grabbing $300 in cash in Mr. Barnes’ front pocket. Did I mention that in addition to being an ex-Marine that Mr. Barnes is also a former Gold Glove [...]

A famous lawnmower and tractor company says that, “Nothing runs like a Deer[e]” and two cyclists up in Leelanau county now have first-hand experience to back up that claim. Dan Hofstra and Bob Otwell were riding along amongst a group of 15 cyclists when a deer ran out of the woods sent Hofstra [...]

By now, most everyone has heard the story of 21 year old, Ben Carpenter, and his 50 mph wheelchair ride through Paw Paw while stuck to the grill of a semi truck. Well, here is a brief interview of the young man who miraculously survived the ordeal without a scratch.

If the player does not [...]