SHERWOOD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) – Bruce Kempton hunkered down in his bathtub as the EF3 tornado he saw coming and going tore apart his southern Michigan home. “I asked the Lord to take me home if it was my time to go and I put it in his hands,” Kempton,... See more
SAUGATUCK TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A day after he pulled a truck driver from a burning semi-truck on I-196 — only minutes before the rig exploded — the rescuer delivered him some lunch: a Cobb salad.
Truck driver Zadairreis Parson, 35, a former Golden Glo... See more
SAUGATUCK TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A semi-truck careened off of I-196 near Saugatuck and burst into flames amid whiteout conditions Monday morning.
The northbound lanes of the highway were expected to remain closed well into the evening while the bridge w... See more
EDITOR’S NOTE: For the sake of full disclosure, News 8’s Ken Kolker and the subject of this report, photographer Steve Jessmore, have known each other more than 40 years. They worked at The Saginaw News together in the 1980s. EAST GRAND RAPIDS — Photojour... See more
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The knife-wielding suspect shot and seriously injured by Grand Rapids police in September on the city’s West Side likely would have died except for one thing: An officer’s gun misfired, the police chief said. Grand Rapids Poli... See more
