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A Zeeland man narrowly wins the Hot Air Balloon Championship in Battle Creek. A proposal for a part-time Legislature is back to square one. A submits its…

In Romania, a cobbler crafted leather shoes two and a half feet long. You flop around, as if in swimming fins, and it is suddenly hard to get too close to other people.

A gallery filled with the musical paintings of David Park at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts will become a concert space at 6:30 pm on Tuesday, Feb 18,…

When Carol Allison was six, she opened a bank account in Scotland with her grandmother and then forgot about. Allison, who is now 74, was cleaning her house recently and found the bank book.

President Bush makes a surprise visit to Baghdad to visit Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The president told the new leader and his Cabinet that the future of Iraq is in its citizens' hands, and that it's in the interest of the United States that the mission in Iraq succeeds.

An overproduction of grapes in California and Europe, and a falling demand for expensive wine, have given way to tumbling wine prices. Michele Norris talks with Linda Murphy, who writes the weekly "Bargain Wine" column for the San Francisco Chronicle. Murphy says there are deals to be had.

Ford Motor Company CEO Bill Ford says the automaker will cut up to 30,000 North American jobs by 2012. The moves are part of a restructuring plan that will see a number of manufacturing plants close, as well.

The strongest earthquake in 40 years hit Southeast Asia Sunday morning, setting off tsunamis that killed thousands. Measured at 8.9, the earthquake is the most powerful recorded since a 9.2 quake hit Alaska in 1964.

The debris has been floating in space for the past decade and experts believe it came from a Chinese rocket test. The impact is expected to leave a crater anywhere from about 30 to 60 feet wide.

The Kalamazoo Nature Center says both nights and days are getting warmer, making it more difficult to extract sap.