Steve Black (Nov. 19, 2009) 

Charges may follow jail worker 'threat'

A Kent County jail employee was suspended without pay for what he said to commissioners at a budget meeting Thursday morning, and will likely face criminal charges.

    ACCESS of West Michigan organized this food drive earlier in 2009 (courtesy: acessofwestmichigan.org) 

    More people hungry in West Michigan

    "People who used to be givers are now showing up for the first time" to get food for their families, ACCESS of West Michigan Program Director Marsha DeHollander told 24 Hour News 8.

      ACCESS of West Michigan organized this food drive earlier in 2009 (courtesy: acessofwestmichigan.org) 

      More people hungry in West Michigan

      "People who used to be givers are now showing up for the first time" to get food for their families, ACCESS of West Michigan Program Director Marsha DeHollander told 24 Hour News 8.

        A bighead carp, front, a species of the Asian carp, swims in an exhibit that highlights plants and animals that eat or compete with Great Lakes native species, Jan. 5, 2006, at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium.  

        Asian carp may have breached barrier

        Federal officials say the despised Asian carp may have breached an electronic barrier designed to prevent it from invading the Great Lakes and jeopardizing their $7 billion sport fishery.

          The 2007 picture provided by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences shows Nidal Malik Hasan when he entered the program for his Disaster and Military Psychiatry Fellowship. Authorities said he went on the killing spree 

          Atty: Hospital hearing set for Hasan

          An attorney for the Army psychiatrist charged in the mass shooting at Fort Hood says his client will have his first court hearing in his hospital room on Saturday.

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