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Fuller Life: senior helper or deadbeat?

Fuller Life Center has been evicted from their 44th Street office. A court officer has seized its property to satisfy a court judgment in a lawsuit, as has a

Schools have AEDs - now what?

Since their daughter's death, the Gillary Foundation has been working to make sure AEDs are placed in schools across the state of Michigan. Now, most schools

Deported tax preparer denies fraud

A tax preparer deported a year ago said a 1992 conviction led to his departure, not an investigation into federal fraud.

Hispanic leader: go after tax preparers

Following a Target 8 report about illegal immigrants using a loophole to collect billions in federal child tax credits, many people said: deport. But the head

Fake kids, false claims cost billions

Her federal 2010 tax return reads like fiction -- written, she said, by a Grand Rapids tax preparer to help get her a much bigger federal tax return. And, it's

Parents: Kids reported teacher affair

Parents said that more than one student reported an inappropriate relationship between a former Saranac High School teacher and a then-16-year-old student,

Kalamazoo nursing home 'has improved'

A Kalamazoo nursing home listed on a federal watch list of poor nursing homes has improved.

Do ministers need a license to wed?

Ken Kibby estimates he's done more than 800 weddings, sometimes three in a weekend. He's a reverend with the Universal Life Church, just one of several online

Paying too much for a chance at love

Elizabeth Labine leafed through a pile of legal papers. They're sore reminders of the high price she paid looking for love through a dating service.

Law lets sex offender live near school

While investigating James Hay, a convicted sex offender now facing charges of downloading child pornography, Target 8 discovered his home is about 600 feet

Scam leaves 'secret shoppers' out money

Unsuspecting West Michigan residents think they're going to make $500 a week working part-time by signing up online as secret shoppers -- but the real secret

'Romeo' not cleared, gets life on list

He was a poster child for what was wrong with Michigan's sex offender registry -- a teen on the list for a one-night stand with an under-age girl. But now,

Lawyers: Teacher-teen texts not enough

Illicit and sometimes graphic text messages from 2010 compiled in a police report show an ongoing relationship between a then 57-year-old teacher and a

Picking predators not simply 'Tier 3'

When Sen. Rick Jones helped re-write the state's sex offender registry, he said it would make it easier to pick out predators living in neighborhoods across

Texts narrate teacher-student affair

A police report is providing new insight into the affair conducted between an ex-teacher and a now-17-year-old student.

Michigan sex offender tiers confusing

Target 8 recently put the new sex offenders list to the test and found only confusion. The big question: On which of the three tiers can you find so-called

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Henry Erb, Target 8 Investigator

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Ken Kolker, Reporter

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