SW Michigan

PORTAGE, MI -- After only a month on the job, Mark Love has resigned as interim human-resources director of Portage Public Schools. The resignation was effective Monday, April 8. "It just wasn't a good fit for all of us, so we're moving forward," said Sarah Baker, PPS spokeswoman.

Family and the beach will replace orange jail suits and lawyers for a Calhoun County judge. Circuit Judge Allen Garbrecht announced Monday he will retire on June 1 with after three decades on the bench and with more than half of his six-year term remaining.

LANSING -- The Department of Human Services budget was bounced, cut, restored and still up in the air after two hearings Tuesday in Lansing. Two vastly different versions were passed by the House and Senate Appropriations subcommittees.

EPA officials plan to dig up soil laden with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, on the edges of the Allied Paper landfill in Kalamazoo's Edison neighborhood and pile that waste on top of other contaminated soil on the site. The EPA plans to cap the 90-acre site and monitor it.

There were few opportunities for girls when Albania's civil war ended in the late 1990s, so Resilda Karafili's parents put her on a plane to Metro Detroit when she was 10 to live with relatives and get an education. It was years before Karafili realized that she had been sent to the United States without proper documents.