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  • Mar 21, 2025 | woodtv.com | Henry Erb

    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Grieving families say a Grand Rapids estate sale company has been keeping the money after selling their dead loved ones’ household goods. The complaints against Eastown Estate Services and owner Mike Dykhouse have so far yielded a felony charge in Kent County, a civil judgement in Barry County and an F rating from the Better Business Bureau. Among the victims is the estate of well-known political activist Hank Fuhs, who died last year.

  • Feb 4, 2025 | woodtv.com | Henry Erb |Anna Skog

    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A building contractor is now in the Ottawa County jail, serving a five-month sentence for working without a license. It’s Ricky Lee Hartwick‘s third conviction for being an unlicensed contractor. An Ottawa County judge also sentenced him to three years probation and ordered he pay back more than $30,000 to a Hudsonville couple who have been living in a trailer while the work he did on their home is repaired.

  • Sep 5, 2024 | woodtv.com | Henry Erb

    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — An East Grand Rapids building contractor has to pay back more than $300,000 if he wants to stay out of jail. The case stems from a construction job David Jon Jenkins took near Traverse City: A couple had paid him upfront to build them a house overlooking Sutton’s Bay, but Jenkins failed to pay the subcontractors.

  • Sep 5, 2024 | news.yahoo.com | Henry Erb

    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — An East Grand Rapids building contractor has to pay back more than $300,000 if he wants to stay out of jail. The case stems from a construction job David Jon Jenkins took near Traverse City: A couple had paid him upfront to build them a house overlooking Sutton’s Bay, but Jenkins failed to pay the subcontractors.

  • Sep 2, 2024 | woodtv.com | Henry Erb

    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Holiday parking on Grand Rapids streets is supposed to be free. But for years, people were paying on holidays because of a mistake on a smartphone app. It’s a story you probably have never heard before, because city officials kept quiet about it after the problem was discovered in 2022. By then, the app had been mistakenly allowing holiday payments for more than three years, apparently since the MOTU parking app was introduced in Grand Rapids.

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Lauren Kummer

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Jeremy Erskine

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News Anchor at WOOD-TV (Grand Rapids, MI)

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Samantha Mesa

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Henry Erb
Henry Erb @HenryErb1
1 Nov 19

It happens more often than you may think. Old debt you thought was dead comes back to life like a zombie. Tell you why tonite at 11 on News8.

Henry Erb
Henry Erb @HenryErb1
31 Oct 19

Just in time for Halloween. Target 8 Investigators chase zombies...sort of... Tonight at 11 on News 8.

Henry Erb
Henry Erb @HenryErb1
23 May 19

Why did Grand Rapids parking officials move so fast to expand parking regulation that the city manager told them to slow down? Some answers and how they'll move ahead more carefully. At 11 on 24HourNews8.