This week’s Local 4 high school football Game of the Week is a matchup between two of the best in west Michigan. The Zeeland West Dux will host the Grand Rapids Forest Hills Central Rangers on Friday, Oct. 4, at 7 p.m.

A soldier who died when a B-25 bomber went down in Papua New Guinea during World War II has been laid to rest in his western Michigan hometown nearly eight decades after his death.

The people who packed the gymnasium at Zeeland East High School at first sat in stunned silence, as junior Jules Hoogland lined up her shot for East’s Unified basketball team as a helper was banging a stick on the support beam behind the backboard.

Years later, the University of Michigan law school is seeking a new trial for a western Michigan woman who was convicted of killing her daughter in a house fire.

Zeeland police are seeking the public’s help in locating 15-year-old Elena Joy Carmona, who was last seen on April 3.