Olivia, left, and Omysha Boswell mourn their cousin Katrel Parker’s death during a candlelight vigil at Oakwood Avenue and East Columbus Street on Thursday, July 22, 2010. More than 60 people showed up to honor Parker, who was the victim of Wednesday night’s shooting.
Lowell, Alto, Ada and Grattan firefighters perform a controlled burn on 32 acres, which contained six-feet-tall switch grass, on April 28, 2010.
Jonah Salim, a Christian pastor at First Presbyterian Church in Bay City, who fled his home country of Iraq as a political and religious refugee, reviews his notes Tuesday, February 3, 2009, minutes before having to answer questions from members of the Presbytery of Lake Huron in Saginaw, Mich.
Brig. Gen. Simeon G. Trombitas presents the flag that covered Nick Roush’s casket to his parents, Donna and Robert Roush Jr., at Mount Hope Cemetery in Middleville, Mich. on Tuesday, August 25, 2009. Their son, U.S. Army Cpl. Nick Roush, was killed while serving in Afghanistan earlier in 2009.
Friends and family of the late Ian Lynch, 13, gather during a candlelight vigil on Sunday, July 25, 2010, in Grandveiw. Ian died after accidentally electrocuting himself during a boat trip with his father and younger brother.
The city of Wyoming, Mich., is telling the Moddermans they are not allowed to keep chickens in their suburban neighborhood. Lucy, 3, holds Violet.
Greg Kennard was in his trailer home on Thursday Sept. 16, 2010, when a tornado picked up his trailer and slammed it 20 feet away from where it originally was off Spicelick Road in York Township. He survived with minor cuts and bruises, but his girlfriend, Karen Young, sustained more severe cuts. She required hospitalization.
The owner of a custom cruiser rolled his vehicle after allegedly swerving to miss a deer off of Mill Creek in Grand Rapids, Mich., on Wednesday afternoon, March 31, 2010.
A pedestrian killed on May 10, 2010, at the intersection of Grandville Avenue and Weston Street SW in Grand Rapids, Mich., was struck by two vehicles, one of which left the scene, authorities said.
From left, Carolyn Cifuentes, Stephanie Derga and Beckie Dixon console each other after laying the last of three wreaths down next to the monument of those killed from Lima Company in Iraq during a memorial service on Saturday, August 21, 2010, at the Marine Regiment 3rd Battalion. They are each mothers of a Marine who gave his life while serving in Iraq five years ago.
Hope College students mourn the loss of their peers, David Otai and Emma Biagioni, on Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010, at Dimnent Chapel in Holland, Mich. The two students were killed in a single-engine airplane crash earlier that day.
In Feb. 2009, Dan S. Haney, 24, moved to Bay City from Flint looking for employment to support his wife and four kids. Instead of finding work, he found himself lying in the street in front of his home, bleeding from several gunshot wounds. Haney, still recovering in the hospital Saturday, said he has a new appreciation for life.
Columbus police officers secure a neighborhood near Clifton Avenue and Hughes Street on Monday, Oct. 25, 2010, after a shooting involving an officer.
Skip Davison, from Milford, and other members of the Patriot Guard show their respect by lining up in front of Marvin E. Schur’s funeral service, while people left Gephart’s Funeral Home on Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2009. Schur froze to death in his home in January 2009 after Bay City Electric Light & Power shut off his electric service. Schur owed about $1,000 to the electric company. According to attorney Cathy Reder, Schur left his estate, estimated at $600,000, to the Bay Regional Medical Center.
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