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Playing Powerball could be a dangerous gamble

COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. (WZZM) - The record-setting Powerball jackpot stands at $600 million, but is expected to grow much larger with Saturday's ticket sales.

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Big weekend for Relay for Life events

(WZZM) -  It's another big weekend for Relay for Life with four more communities in West Michigan holding their fund-raisers.

"These events are all about celebrating survivorship remembering those we have lost to cancer and also those who are still struggling with the disease and giving people a chance to fight back against a disease that takes far too much from far too many."' said Eric Voight.

Voight, the associate director for the American Cancer Society says "the 24-hour event symbolizes the journey cancer patients walk through, from the darkness of first being diagnosed to walking into the light of treatment and recovery."

Special Olympics Michigan 2013 Night Out with the Whitecaps May 18

Special Olympics Michigan 2013 Night Out with the Whitecaps May 18

 COMSTOCK PARK, Mich.—Special Olympics athletes will take over Fifth Third Ballpark Saturday, May 18 for the “Special Olympics Michigan 2013 Night Out with the Whitecaps.”

The event includes a Special Olympics softball game from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m., the Whitecaps- Bowling Green Hot Rods game at 7 p.m. and  post-game fireworks.

Tickets are $10, with $2 from each pass going to Special Olympics Michigan programs in West Michigan.

Powerball jackpot reaches $360 million

ALPINE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WZZM) -- $360 million, that's the jackpot in Wednesday night's Powerball lottery drawing. It's the third largest prize in the game's history.

Wednesday evening, people were streaming into Party World on Alpine Avenue to buy their tickets, in hopes of winning big money.

In the last four years, the store has sold at least six winning tickets with major jackpots, a status workers at the Michigan Lottery have confirmed.

If no one wins Wednesday night's jackpot it could go up to $400 million for Saturday's drawing.

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School is just starting for local MSP trooper recruits

School is just starting for local MSP trooper recruits

The school year is wrapping up for many people, but it’s just beginning for dozens prospective Michigan State Police troopers.

Sunday, May 12, 80 men and women from across the state began the 125th Trooper Recruit School.  For the next 21 weeks, MSP members and academy staff will train the recruits in firearms, water safety, defensive tactics, patrol techniques, report writing, ethics, first aid, criminal law, crime scene processing and precision driving.  Recruits who successfully complete the training will graduate October 4.

Michigan State Police selected recruits from more than 3,000 potential candidates.

Sheriff's Department handing out kits to bring missing children home

Sheriff's Department handing out kits to bring missing children home

According to the FBI, 800,000 children in the U.S. go missing every year.

The Kent County Sheriff’s Department is teaming up with the FBI to lower that number, by providing at-home child identification kits.

The kits contain an inkless fingerprint kit, DNA collection swab as well as other emergency information. Starting at 11 a.m.

Cath & Steph Celebrate Beer City USA With Perrin Brewing

Perrin Brewing Company

5910 Comstock Park, 49321

616.551.1957

www.perrinbrewing.com