Stories from Friday, December 27, 2024

DEXTER — A tense situation unfolded Christmas Day in Dexter when a man called 911 threatening to provoke a “suicide by cop” scenario. The caller, identified as Steven Parks, 29, of Dexter, informed dispatchers that he intended to shoot at police officers upon their arrival at his residence at 913 N. Sassafras St...

Evelyn Jackson, who was born Dec. 25, 1924, in the United States, observed her 100th birthday in England, where she has spent most of her life. Jackson has had quite a journey after beginning life on a farm surrounded with oven-warmed bricks as a makeshift incubator, said her only child, Sally Gray of London...