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Monday, May 13, 2013  UPDATED WITH VIDEO: 45-year-old Derek Lavis was charged with attempting to aid a escaping prisoner and malicious destruction of property. His bond was set at $1 million.

Friday, May 10, 2013  UPDATED WITH VIDEO: The Ludington-based health system made the announcement at a meeting this morning.

Wednesday, May 08, 2013  Paperworks Studio in Traverse City is teaming up with the Special Olympics and the Visual Imaging Technology class at the Traverse Bay Intermediate School District Career Tech Center to make Mother's Day cards.

Tuesday, May 07, 2013  7&4 News has learned that in early April, Baker College Cadillac Campus signed a purchase agreement for the O’Neill building or the old potato factory on West Harris Street in downtown Cadillac.

Tuesday, May 07, 2013  Chris Edwards has what doctors call Synesthesia - a condition defined as the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body.

Tuesday, May 07, 2013  Frantic call leads police to 3 missing women in Cleveland home; 3 brothers arrested

Tuesday, May 07, 2013  UPDATE: Traverse City commissioners pass ordinance to allow food truck vendors within city limits.

Friday, May 03, 2013  UPDATED WITH VIDEO: Police are looking for a woman who they say sold several hundred fake silver bars to local metal buyers under the guise that it was real silver.

Thursday, May 02, 2013  It was the location where Disney brought its smash hit “Oz the Great and Powerful” to life, a film that debuted in first place at the box office generating nearly $80 million in its first weekend.  It’s called Michigan Motion Picture Studios in Pontiac and right now it's preparing for yet another major Hollywood close-up.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013  UPDATE: Vigil planned for family, friends and community Thursday, May 2nd.

Tuesday, April 30, 2013  UPDATED WITH VIDEO: "Petoskey Batman" is taking his mission to protect and serve to YouTube.