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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Daniel J. Castro, a former doctor at Bronson Battle Creek, will spend the next five years in federal prison for a healthcare fraud scheme, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. He will also undergo two years of supervised release and will pay $1,972,293.74 in restitution to victims, including the Medicare and Medicaid programs, multiple private health insurers, Bronson Hospital and his former patients. From February 2015 to May 2017, Castro performed medically unnecessary sinus surgeries, which frequently involved falsifying medical reports about his patients' symptoms and the findings of CT scans to make it appear...

It's almost embarrassing to watch the lengths to which WWMT television news reporter Trisha McCauley will go to preserve her job security in this era of cancel culture when raising the ire of social justice warriors can easily destroy your career. Therefore McCauley had to perform the unenviable task of pretending that there was still a hate crime that happened at Albion College in Michigan even though it was proven to have been a hoax since the perp turned out to be a "student of color."Here is McCauley going through the motions of the pretense in her report about a...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - A candlelight vigil was held Saturday night to mourn the death of Thomas Pauli.Authorities say he died of hypothermia in January after two downtown shelters wouldn't let him inside. The shelters say they were just abiding by the law.Pauli's past criminal record kept him out, the 52 year old man was a sex offender."The law states they can't reside within 1000 feet of a school," said Rev. Ralph Collins of Mel Trotter Ministries.Marge Palmerlee of Degage Ministries says it's the wording she'd like to see changed."Staying at a mission is not actually residing, it's just...

A 10-year-old boy is recovering after a pit bull attack left him with injuries so severe that he had to have his arm amputated.

OCEANA COUNTY (MI) (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - The man who killed his estranged wife before committing suicide vented his frustrations on his myspace page. Dan Lee Mead, 41, shot himself after he dressed in camouflage, armed himself with a shotgun and kidnapped his wife who'd been staying with her parents.Both bodies were found in the woods near Ferry Township Friday morning.He described his frustration with his marriage, and losing custody of his child.Police say Mead had a history of violence and had been in and out of jail in the past.OCEANA COUNTY (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - The man who killed his estranged...