Gus Burns

1 month ago | mlive.com | Gus Burns

ROTHBURY, MI -- Kevin Graves vanished -- and later it was learned died -- while attending the Electric Forest music festival in Michigan on July 1, 2018. Over the years, thousands became emotionally invested, learning about Kevin’s life, offering help or compassion and following his family’s relentless search for answers. Hidden in plain sight: The 6-year search for Kevin GravesMar. 11, 2025, 10:58a.m.Timeline: Key events in the search for Kevin GravesMar.

1 month ago | mlive.com | Gus Burns

ROTHBURY, MI -- For six years, tens of thousands of Electric Forest attendees likely walked past Kevin Graves, the 28-year-old man who never came home. Before his body was finally found in December, Graves lay in the solitude of rural west Michigan’s New Era, population 441, in a patch of woods surrounded by empty fields. Six cadaver dogs sniffing and panting in the summer heat two weekends after the 2018 music festival didn’t smell anything.

1 month ago | mlive.com | Gus Burns |Scott Levin

The following is a list of notable dates and actions taken during the six-year search for 28-year-old Kevin Graves, who vanished while attending the Electric Forest music festival in 2018. His remains were discovered on the festival grounds in December.

1 month ago | mlive.com | Gus Burns

LANSING, MI -- Private foster care agencies won a legal battle with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services over a rate dispute. The state must pay a daily rate of $60.20, per child, to private agencies, Court of Claims Judge Sima G. Patel said in his March 4 opinion. MDHHS previously agreed to the amount in its 2025 budget plan, but more than 20 private foster care agencies filed a lawsuit when MDHHS attempted to revise the terms.

1 month ago | mlive.com | Gus Burns

GLADWIN COUNTY, MI -- It was just before 6:30 a.m. on Monday, March 3, when a motorist attempted to pass a school bus on Bard Road in Gladwin County’s Sage Township and struck an Amish horse and carriage. “I observed debris spread across the roadway, a deceased horse upon the west side of the roadway with a mangled horse carriage behind the deceased horse,” Gladwin County Sheriff’s Deputy Christopher Dysinger, the first emergency responder to the scene, wrote in his report.