Time flies for Two Sparrow Nurses: 25 Years Later Former Preemie Returns to Help Them Care for Others

Graduate Nurse Kristin Caverly started her job in Sparrow’s Regional Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (RNICU) in January 2004, but it wasn’t her first visit to the unit. Twenty-eight years ago, Kristin was an RNICU patient. Current department manager Sandy Geller and unit nurse Jo Ellen Hansen were both part of Kristin’s care during her stay.

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Surprise Back to School Shopping Spree

For some of the students it was a welcome surprise especially since a tornado that ripped through the Southside of Lansing community where some of the students lived did a lot of damage.

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Mid-Michigan Residents in WKAR-TV World War II Documentary

  The WKAR.org website for The War: Michigan Voices includes repeat times, an honor roll listing service details for all those interviewed, transcripts for the veterans’ complete interviews, selected articles about some of the veterans, and a “Share Your Story” section that allows visitors to share their stories or memories of their family members’ experiences in World War II.

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Surprise Back to School Shopping Spree

LANSING, MI —    Early Saturday morning 24 students from the Lansing  School District had the opportunity to go on a big back to  school shopping spree compliments of the Lansing Jaycees.

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The Dangers of Reporting on Your Hometown

The death of Chauncey Bailey highlights how deadly the news business can be. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) monitors the killings of journalists all over the world. Since they began tracking these deaths in 1992, CPJ found that on average more than three journalists are killed every month in the line of duty.

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To Snitch, or Not To Snitch

Black on black murder rates are off the charts, capped by the recent killing of three students in New Jersey, but there are few witnesses willing to testify. The lack of witnesses helps increase the spiral of violence in poor black neighborhoods, notes NAM editor Earl Ofari Hutchinson. Hutchinson is an author and political analyst.

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