Susan Samples
Senior Investigative Reporter at WOOD-TV (Grand Rapids, MI)
Heading up the Target 8 investigative team for 24 Hour News 8. Want a story investigated? DM me.
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2 weeks ago |
woodtv.com | Susan Samples
KALAMAZOO, Mich.
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3 weeks ago |
woodtv.com | Susan Samples
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — More than 200 young people in Grand Rapids were left scrambling after the federal government announced it will pause the Job Corps program nationwide. “I ain’t going to lie: It feels like (expletive). It feels like if you had hope and it just dropped all the way,” one program participant in Grand Rapids told News 8 Monday.
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Susan Samples
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — More than 200 young people in Grand Rapids were left scrambling after the federal government announced it will pause the Job Corps program nationwide. “I ain’t going to lie: It feels like (expletive). It feels like if you had hope and it just dropped all the way,” one program participant in Grand Rapids told News 8 Monday. The Gerald R. Ford Job Corps Center in Grand Rapids.
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4 weeks ago |
woodtv.com | Susan Samples
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — If scammers take over your social media account, you’re encouraged to file a complaint with the Michigan attorney general’s office. The A.G.’s Office of Corporate Oversight has had some success helping victims of the increasingly pervasive scam regain control of their pages. “Happy news!” texted one victim who’d contacted Target 8 investigators for help. “I got my accounts back today.
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1 month ago |
woodtv.com | Susan Samples
FERRYSBURG, Mich. (WOOD) — Billy Haynes knew the time was near. For more than a decade, the Vietnam veteran had traveled West Michigan and states beyond, displaying the rolling memorial he’d constructed to honor those who didn’t make it home. But at 75, Haynes had grown weary. “I was worried because it means a lot to me,” said Haynes of the motorcycle adorned with relics from the war in Southeast Asia.
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To those who never came home and those who did, ‘thank you.’ To Billy Haynes, Gerald Keen, Lynette Keen and Madeline Odle, thank you for letting me share your story. It was an honor. https://t.co/nIFjGOLwtv
Rus’s attorney said Rus “knows he missed the mark in parenting” but has done “everything he can” to improve, (parenting classes etc.) Quist sentenced Rus in middle of range, said he’s done some good things, but prior record, nature of crime called for 28 months in prison. https://t.co/gCiIr3wbru
Cedar Springs dad who locked 7 yr old son in wood box will serve at least 28 months in prison for felony child abuse. Judge George “Jay” Quist called Michael Rus’s crime “egregious,” & cited his prior record, which included 2018 misdemeanor child abuse conviction. @WOODTV https://t.co/xXV3xSDu7x