http://www.record-eagle.com en-us Copyright CNHI All Rights Reserved. 5 Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:00:59 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095859.html http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095859.html Efforts to keep students from dropping out of high school need to start within the first five years of their lives, area educators say. Students are more likely to quit school, they argue, if school districts fail to provide early opportunities. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:00:58 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095906.html http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095906.html Authorities believe a Traverse City man embezzled more than $50,000 from a local couple after promising them financial assistance. Paul Steven Reszka, 50, stole from an Acme Township couple over a three-month period last year, they contend. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:00:57 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095911.html http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095911.html Here's something different: northern Michigan residents should arise today to find soggy lawns and rain-washed streets and sidewalks. A downpour was expected to douse the region with upwards of 1 1/2 inches of rain between Thursday evening and this morning, remnants of Hurricane Gustav rumbling in from the Gulf Coast. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:00:56 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095917.html http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095917.html Declining revenues could prompt Grand Traverse County officials to use $870,000 from the county's fund balance to pay 2009 bills. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:00:55 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095923.html http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095923.html Police arrested a Traverse City man for disorderly conduct after he allegedly prowled and peeked into houses. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:00:54 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095927.html http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095927.html A judge sentenced a former Benzie County Sheriff's Department corrections officer to two years of probation. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:00:53 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095932.html http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095932.html Construction will periodically block traffic on Union Street between 14th and 16th streets. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:00:56 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095557.html http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095557.html Wildlife officials say a viral disease may have killed more than 50 white-tailed deer recently in southeastern Michigan's Macomb and Oakland counties near the Clinton River. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:00:55 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095602.html http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095602.html A judge has denied a request for a new trial by a man convicted of causing his wife's fatal fall at Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:08:00 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_248144006.html http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_248144006.html One lucky winner has day passes to more than 20 cooking demos at the Epicurean Classic’s expanded Tasting Pavilion. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:00:59 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095516.html http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095516.html Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was bounced from office Thursday in a deal with prosecutors that will send him to jail and put an end to the sex scandal that embarrassed this chronically struggling city and preoccupied its government for months. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:00:58 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095532.html http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095532.html The man who will succeed Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has had months to prepare for the possibility of taking over as head of the nation's 11th largest city, and said last week that he was ready for the job. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:00:57 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095539.html http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095539.html Chief Ella M. Bully-Cummings, who joined the police department at age 19 and five years ago made Detroit the largest U.S. city with a female police chief, is retiring as the mayor who appointed her prepares to resign. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:57:00 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095610.html http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095610.html The issue: Life after the primary; Our view: Let the housecleaning begin. Garfield Township, and every other local unit of government, needs to take a long, hard look at its own operations and clean house if necessary. Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:00:57 +0000 http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095624.html http://www.record-eagle.com/friday/local_story_249095624.html In northern Michigan today, more families are struggling to put food on their tables and lacking basic necessities than any time in the past 15 years. In Grand Traverse County, 7,200 people live in poverty, including more than 1,600 children. That's enough people to fill the Milliken Auditorium 18 times.