Paralyzed Veterans of America

FALLBROOK — Jim Russell's macadamia orchard looks like a park, 3 acres of holly-like evergreens growing above closely cropped grass. A casual observer would never suspect that it represents a relic of a bygone boom, a source of uniquely delicious...

Former Petoskey resident Audrey Conn, age 93, died Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, at her home in Otter Lake, Mich. The funeral service will take place at 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 7, at the Brown Funeral Home, 1480 E. Hill Road, Grand Blanc, Mich. Entombment will be...

PONTIAC, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit man who authorities say collected money for fake veterans' charities he created has been sentenced to 17 months to 10 years in prison. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette says Wednesday that 37-year-...

Buried by four other constitutional amendments on the ballot, the amendment requesting whether voters want to amend the state constitution to allow in-home workers to bargain collectively with the Michigan Quality Home Care Council has gone largely...

James Samuel Mills, 71, of Hagerstown, Md., died Monday, Oct. 1, 2012, at his home. Born May 2, 1941, in Hagerstown, he was the son of the late Clarence and Mary Viola Richardson Lowans. He retired from the U.S. Air Force on Nov. 22, 1963. He was a...

South Dakota Disabled American Veterans has never solicited donations through telemarketing, so anyone who receives a phone call from a group with a similar name should think twice before sending any money, said Gene Murphy of the Disabled American...

Brillion, Wis.: Ethlyn Leao, 85, of Brillion, Wis., went to be with the Lord, Saturday Aug. 11, 2012. Ethlyn or Ethie as her friends knew her was born on April 23, 1927, in Sioux Falls, the daughter of Everett and Mildred Bates. Ethie graduated from...