UPDATED: Friday, May 16, 2008 LAPEER TWP -- Motorists are facing intermittent lane closures on newly widened M-24 as the final layer of asphalt is applied.
UPDATED: Friday, May 16, 2008 HADLEY TWP -- A Saturday afternoon crash injured a local township official's wife and a Goodrich High School sophomore, who was pinned inside her vehicle.
UPDATED: Friday, May 16, 2008 LAPEER COUNTY -- A ballot initiative to enact a part-time state legislature and cut legislative benefits is 600 local petition signatures away from a November vote.
UPDATED: Friday, May 16, 2008 LAPEER COUNTY -- Tuesday was filing deadline for the Aug. 5 primary election for candidates interested in running for office, and while there was no influx of people through the doors this week there is no shortage of people to challenge for seats. Nearly every elected county office seat faces a challenger, while there are seven Republican candidates for the 82nd District seat in the Michigan Legislature.
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 LAPEER -- Lives depend on the quick reactions of a local man named as the state's Emergency Medical Technician of the year.
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 LAPEER -- It was the skill of the dispatcher mixed with the luck of the Irish that helped bring newborn baby Shade Meyer into the world more than one year ago on St. Patrick's Day.
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 LAPEER -- On the run for more than five years, Lapeer County's most wanted fugitive was nabbed by Mexican authorities on Thursday.
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 LAPEER -- Longtime Lapeer City Attorney Ronald B. Shamblin, 59, died at his mother's home the day before Mother's Day after a long illness.
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 LAPEER -- After appearing in 20 countries on five continents and 37 states, Aaron Radatz is bringing his act to the PIX Theatre Saturday.
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 LAPEER -- Lapeer County's Young Marines have been taking pledges for the past month to make sure the county's National Guard unit can stay in touch with family and friends when it ships out for Iraq next spring.
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 LAPEER -- If you enjoy helping people who can't help themselves, and putting a smile on someone's face just because you can, then the people behind the Alzheimer's Blankies Project invite you to attend one of their fun-filled monthly meetings.
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 LAPEER -- A year to the day after Lapeer Community School voters approved $56.7 million bond proposal for the creation of two middle schools and technology upgrades across the district, school board members voted May 5 to approve the first round of contracts to get the project underway.
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 IMLAY CITY -- Co-chairing the Cystic Fibrosis Great Strides Walk has changed Kyle Clark: It improved his health, did wonders for his self-esteem and girls noticed him.
UPDATED: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 DRYDEN TWP -- Though the warm season is off to a slow start, the Lapeer County Parks are planning a summer of sunshine.
UPDATED: Sunday, May 11, 2008 LAPEER -- Even though they aren't blood related, Sue Peterson still considers her mother, Connie Peterson, a special woman in her life who adopted her when she was three days old.
UPDATED: Sunday, May 11, 2008 IMLAY CITY -- A move to repeal an Imlay City ordinance on alcoholic beverages and open containers dried up at a public hearing Wednesday.
UPDATED: Sunday, May 11, 2008 LAPEER -- Safety belt compliance of younger male drivers will be a major focus of county law enforcement as they join patrols in 21 counties across the state.
UPDATED: Sunday, May 11, 2008 ELBA TWP. -- A local family lost their best friend twice after a well meaning person tied their dog "Harrison" to a post at the Lapeer County Animal Shelter Tuesday evening.
UPDATED: Sunday, May 11, 2008 IMLAY TWP -- For the first time in nine years, when classes resume at Imlay City Christian School from summer vacation in the fall there won't be an educator with the last name of Reitsma.
UPDATED: Sunday, May 11, 2008 BROWN CITY -- Through adversity comes strength, and in the case of Evelyn Doherty and Virginia Finkbeiner, polio has strengthened their mother-daughter relationship.
UPDATED: Friday, May 9, 2008 LAPEER -- A local church has an answer to addressing escalating food prices through a program called Angel Food Ministries, but needs help in getting the word out.
