Hillsdale College in southern Michigan, famous for rejecting all federal and state funding to help guarantee its independence, has long been a darling among conservatives.
Mitt Romney and Rick Perry on Wednesday assailed Republican presidential rival Ron Paul for saying the U.S. has no business bombing Iran to keep it from acquiring a nuclear weapon, drawing a sharp contrast with their rising rival as he returned to Iowa to campaign before the lead-off caucuses.
The airwaves in Grand Rapids just got a little bit funnier.
Nov. 14 marked the birth of a 24-hour comedy radio station in Grand Rapids, Funny 1410 AM.
The Townsquare Media-owned comedy station with the call letters WNWZ replaces the Spanish...more contemporary hits station, La Maquina Musical.
The launch of Funny 1410 comes just four days after the headliners were announced for LaughFest 2012, allowing stand-up fans to hear the likes of Jim Gaffigan, Kevin Nealon and Whoopi Goldberg before they come to town for the 10-day festival beginning March 8.
"LaughFest set the table for us pretty good on this," said Townsquare Media Operations Manager Jerry Tarrants. "A lot of first-year events on a major platform don't do particularly well, but LaughFest did so well right out of the gate. I think they kind of warmed up the Grand Rapids area for us on this format."
Tens of thousands of Americans are calling on the government to correct "dramatically underfunded research" for Alzheimer's disease and to improve diagnostic tools and treatments, according to a report released Monday by the Alzheimer's Association.
The former first lady, who died Friday at 93, leaves a deep legacy in the nation's popular culture because of the Betty Ford Center, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in the California desert here where celebrities and average people alike have been treated.
There's nothing unusual about voting "present" in the U.S. House of Representatives: It's an easy way for a congressman to record his attendance without taking a position on a politically risky bill.
Geraldine Ferraro, the first woman nominated for U.S. vice president by a major political party, died today at age 75 after a long battle with blood cancer.
Neither the NTSB nor the Federal Aviation Administration, which oversees the nation's controllers, said Wednesday whether the supervisor on duty had fallen asleep, gotten locked out of the tower or suffered some other problem.