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Election Results Certified in Ottawa, Allegan Counties
OLIVE TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 21, 2024) - The November 5th General Election has been finally put to bed in Ottawa County. ...
1h ago
Hoekstra Tabbed for Ambassador Post Again
WASHINGTON (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 21, 2024) - Any questions about Pete Hoekstra's political future may have been answered on Wedne...
14h ago
Red Wings on WHTC Tonight; Hope Volleyball, GVSU Women's Hoops in Home Action This Evening
UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 21, 2024) - The Red Wings host the New York Islanders at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit tonight. C...
16h ago
New Rec Center Plans Highlight Holland City Council Meeting Agenda
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 20, 2024) - Another dream of a family who has made some dreams come true around the Tulip City ...
Nov 20, 2024
The Great Thanksgiving Banquet is a Week Away
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 20, 2024) - It's a week to go before one of the Lakeshore's most visible and successful communi...
Nov 20, 2024
Local
Election Results Certified in Ottawa, Allegan Counties
OLIVE TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 21, 2024) - The November 5th General Election has been finally put to bed in Ottawa County. ...
1h ago
Allendale Man to Graduate from State Police Trooper School
LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 21, 2024) - The Lakeshore's police presence will be bolstered after a ceremony in Lansing on Th...
14h ago
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Hoekstra Tabbed for Ambassador Post Again
WASHINGTON (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 21, 2024) - Any questions about Pete Hoekstra's political future may have been answered on Wedne...
14h ago
New Rec Center Plans Highlight Holland City Council Meeting Agenda
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 20, 2024) - Another dream of a family who has made some dreams come true around the Tulip City ...
Nov 20, 2024
The Great Thanksgiving Banquet is a Week Away
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 20, 2024) - It's a week to go before one of the Lakeshore's most visible and successful communi...
Nov 20, 2024
State
Secretary of State Benson cheers passage of bills restricting firearms at polling locations
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two bills have been passed by lawmakers that would restrict firearms at polling locations while th...
Nov 19, 2024
Former Coldwater prison guard gets jail time/probation for meth possession
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - A former corrections officer at the Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater was sentenced on Monda...
Nov 19, 2024
Gas prices up 9-cents a gallon in Michigan
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It's more expensive to fill the gas tank in Michigan compared to last Monday. Triple-A Michigan s...
Nov 18, 2024
General Motors announces lay offs
DETROIT -- General Motors Co. today laid off roughly 1,000 people with a majority of those apparently working out of the auto...
Nov 16, 2024
Kalamazoo man headed for prison dies while trying to escape transport van
BIG RAPIDS, MI - A Kalamazoo man has died while apparently trying to escape a sheriff's department transport van in Mecosta C...
Nov 15, 2024
Local Sports
Red Wings on WHTC Tonight; Hope Volleyball, GVSU Women's Hoops in Home Action This Evening
UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 21, 2024) - The Red Wings host the New York Islanders at Little Caesars Arena in Detroit tonight. C...
16h ago
Lakers Win, Blackhawks & Broncos Fall on Tuesday
UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 20, 2024) - Trevon Gunter scored 19 points as Grand Valley State's men won in the Chicagoland area ...
Nov 20, 2024
Red Wings Lose Again, Bulls Best Pistons in Monday Sports Action
UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 19, 2024) - Macklin Celebrini scored 46 seconds into overtime as the San Jose Sharks celebrated ove...
Nov 19, 2024
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Hope, GVSU Receive NCAA Grid Tourney Assignments; Lions Romp, Bears Blocked on Sunday
UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 17, 2024) - NCAA football tournament bids were announced on Sunday. Undefeated Hope College gets a ...
Nov 17, 2024
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Hope, GVSU Finish Regular Season Grid Action with Wins; Lions Host Jags on WHTC Sunday
UNDATED (WHTC-AM/FM, Nov. 16, 2024) - Ben Wellman threw for two touchdowns and Tyler Amos ran for two more as Hope completed ...
Nov 17, 2024
National Sports
Tennis-Australia edge out US to reach Davis Cup semi-finals, Sinner inspires Italy
MALAGA (Reuters) - Australia set up a Davis Cup semi-final clash with defending champions Italy as doubles pair Matthew Ebden...
1h ago
Clippers' leading-scorer Norman Powell (hamstring) out vs. Kings
Los Angeles Clippers leading scorer Norman Powell will miss a second consecutive game on Friday when he sits out against the ...
1h ago
Hubie Brown, 91, to be on call of one final NBA game
Former NBA head coach and longtime analyst Hubie Brown will call one final game on television this season. Speaking on the Th...
1h ago
CF Montreal decline Josef Martinez's 2025 option
Former league MVP and Golden Boot winner Josef Martinez is a free agent after CF Montreal declined his contract option for th...
1h ago
Tennessee G Cameron Carr (thumb) out 4-6 weeks
Tennessee guard Cameron Carr will miss four to six weeks with a left thumb injury, the school confirmed Thursday. The 6-foot-...
1h ago
National
Global climate funds set for first annual outflows, Morningstar says
By Ross Kerber (Reuters) - Investors are on track to withdraw more money from global climate funds than they deposit this yea...
1h ago
'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew' series felt 'like going home', Jude Law says
By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - The latest addition to the "Star Wars" franchise introduces a new sense of play...
1h ago
Trump gains ability to fill four appellate judge seats under US Senate deal
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats and Republicans clinched a late-night deal on Wednesday that clears the way...
1h ago
Marjorie Taylor Greene to work with Musk's new government efficiency panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene said on Thursday she will chair a U.S. House of Representatives pane...
1h ago
Snap seeks to dismiss New Mexico lawsuit over child safety
By Sheila Dang (Reuters) - Snap on Thursday filed a motion to dismiss a New Mexico lawsuit that alleged the tech company enab...
2h ago
World
FAA says US flights can resume to airports in northern Haiti
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday it was allowing U.S. flights to resume to six air...
36m ago
Haiti blasts Macron's criticism of transition council as 'unfriendly and inappropriate'
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's foreign minister met with the French ambasssador to the nation on Thursday over what the m...
36m ago
US lawmakers seek to halt weapons sales to UAE, citing Sudan
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen has introduced legislation seeking to halt American...
1h ago
Mexico's controversial judicial elections face possible delay
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's first round of elections of judges by popular vote, the product of a contentious constitutio...
1h ago
Biden's shift on missiles for Ukraine informed by North Korean troops in Kursk, Trump's election victory
By Mike Stone, Humeyra Pamuk and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden dropped his opposition to Ukraine...
1h ago
Business
Analysis-Corporate China seeks dollars as trade tensions rise
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese firms are squirreling away even more dollars, pricing contracts in yuan and opening import lines...
41m ago
Automakers urge Trump to preserve EV tax credits, boost self-driving cars
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group representing major automakers including General Motors, Toyota Motor Corp,...
2h ago
SNB board member says inflation is within target range
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) - Swiss National Bank governing board member Petra Tschudin said on Thursday that inflation wa...
2h ago
Snap seeks to dismiss New Mexico lawsuit over child safety
By Sheila Dang (Reuters) - Snap on Thursday filed a motion to dismiss a New Mexico lawsuit that alleged the tech company enab...
2h ago
Sweden's Northvolt files for bankruptcy, in blow to Europe's EV ambitions
By Dietrich Knauth, Marie Mannes, Terje Solsvik (Reuters) -Northvolt, the Swedish maker of battery cells for electric vehicle...
2h ago
Politics
Trump gains ability to fill four appellate judge seats under US Senate deal
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Democrats and Republicans clinched a late-night deal on Wednesday that clears the way...
1h ago
Marjorie Taylor Greene to work with Musk's new government efficiency panel
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene said on Thursday she will chair a U.S. House of Representatives pane...
1h ago
Trump attorney general pick Matt Gaetz drops bid in face of Senate opposition
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hardline Republican Matt Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration as President-elect Donald Trump's a...
5h ago
EU to cajole Trump on trade while readying tariff retaliation
By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union should seek constructive engagement on trade with the incoming T...
7h ago
In New Mexico, a Democratic stronghold battling poverty and fentanyl backs Trump
By Andrew Hay and Jorge Garcia SOCORRO, New Mexico (Reuters) - Past a pawn shop and thrift store in the working-class section...
12h ago
Health
Exclusive-Medical supply firm Medline aims to raise over $5 billion in 2025 IPO, sources say
By Echo Wang NEW YORK (Reuters) -Private equity-owned Medline Industries is aiming to raise more than $5 billion in its U.S. ...
1h ago
Exclusive-McKinsey nears deferred prosecution pact in US opioid probe, sources say
By Nate Raymond and Mike Spector BOSTON (Reuters) - McKinsey & Co is in the final stages of negotiating a deferred prosec...
2h ago
Top FDA official sees more vaccine scrutiny in Trump's presidency
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is likely to come under tighter scrutiny over vaccine development and safet...
4h ago
Viatris fined in Morocco over merger notification, sources say
By Ahmed Eljechtimi RABAT (Reuters) -U.S. pharmaceutical giant Viatris Inc. has been fined 7.58 million dirhams ($760,000) by...
8h ago
Analysis-Wall Street awaits Amgen weight-loss drug data expected to move shares
By Deena Beasley (Reuters) - Upcoming data from a mid-stage study of Amgen's experimental weight-loss drug MariTide will shed...
11h ago
Science
Scientists obtain image of a star on the precipice of disaster
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists have taken a close-up picture of a star apparently in its death throes, surr...
3h ago
Russian scientists hail discovery of 32,000-year-old sabre-toothed cat cub
YAKUTSK, RUSSIA (Reuters) - The sabre-toothed cat cub is almost small enough to hold in one hand, but its discovery after 32,...
7h ago
Elon Musk's Neuralink receives Canadian approval for brain chip trial
(Reuters) - Elon Musk's Neuralink said on Wednesday it has received approval to launch its first clinical trial in Canada for...
20h ago
Scientists announce progress toward ambitious atlas of human cells
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists unveiled on Wednesday the first blueprint of human skeletal development as t...
Nov 20, 2024
Is climate change making tropical storms more frequent? Scientists say it's unclear
By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) - An unusual cluster of typhoons in the West Pacific and a series of powerful hurricanes...
Nov 20, 2024
Technology
Los Alamos National Laboratory chief engineer joins nuclear fusion startup Fuse
By Anna Tong (Reuters) - The chief engineer for nuclear weapons at the Los Alamos National Laboratory is joining nuclear fusi...
57m ago
Copart's first-quarter revenue beats estimates on strong salvage vehicle volumes
(Reuters) - Online vehicle auction services provider Copart reported better-than-expected first-quarter revenue on Thursday, ...
58m ago
Trump's social media company considering crypto payment service, NY Times reports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's social media company is considering developing a cryptocurrency pa...
1h ago
Talen requests rehearing on rejected Amazon data center power pact
By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Talen Energy has asked federal regulators to rehear its rejected agreement to ramp up p...
1h ago
Intuit forecasts quarterly results below estimates on weak demand, promotions delay
By Jaspreet Singh (Reuters) -Intuit projected second-quarter revenue and profit below market estimates on Thursday, hampered ...
1h ago
Entertainment
'Star Wars: Skeleton Crew' series felt 'like going home', Jude Law says
By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - The latest addition to the "Star Wars" franchise introduces a new sense of play...
1h ago
Fox and Hulu announce multi-year content streaming partnership
(Reuters) - Fox Entertainment and Hulu announced on Thursday a multi-year content deal whereby the Walt Disney-controlled str...
4h ago
Illinois top court reverses actor Smollett's false hate crime report conviction
By Eric Cox and Brad Brooks CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the conviction of actor Jus...
4h ago
Russian ballet world says farewell to celebrated dancer Shklyarov after balcony fall
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Ballet fans and members of Russia's cultural elite on Thursday filed past the open casket o...
6h ago
K-pop's profligate CD output draws fire as South Korea hosts plastic waste talks
By Minwoo Park and Daewoung Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - K-pop music may be South Korea's buzziest export but the industry needlessl...
15h ago