ALLENDALE, MI – Philanthropist Beatrice “Bea” Idema, a longtime supporter of West Michigan parks, schools, the zoo and more, is being remembered for her vast contributions in and around Grand Rapids.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Jim Idema, a former editor of The Denver Post’s editorial page, died May 2 in Santa Fe. He was 87. Idema was responsible for bringing editorial cartoonist ...

NOBODY who met Jonathan Keith “Jack” Idema could doubt his self- belief. It hit you as forcefully as his rocky good looks, his patriotism and his prickliness. But who was the self he believed in? Was ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In April 2004, a former U.S. Special Forces soldier named Jonathan Keith Idema started shopping a sizzling story to the media ...

IDEMA, ELIZABETH (LIBBY) Elizabeth (Libby) Idema died Thursday, May 26, after a six-year battle with ovarian cancer. She was 58 years old. This terrible disease took her life, but it never took her ...

OLIVE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — The Ottawa County Board of Commissioners has approved an agreement to use $715,000 in funding from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources to continue work on the ...

Jonathan Idema was such an egotistical fantasist that when he watched the 1997 movie The Peacemaker, he saw himself as the obvious inspiration for George Clooney’s role as a dashing Special Forces ...

In January 2002, As U.S. Forces in Afghanistan were hunting down Al Qaeda suspects, the CBS news show 60 Minutes II got its hands on some sensational footage: seven hours’ worth of videotape showing ...

An American imprisoned in Afghanistan for running a private jail for terror suspects and torturing them has left the Afghan prison where he was held for almost three ...

It’s hard to believe three years have passed since Facebook dropped $22 billion on WhatsApp, and that in all that time the popular messaging app has not significantly changed its business model to ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Americans in combat fatigues kicked in the door at the home of the Afghan high court’s chief judge, fired warning shots into the walls, trussed up the jurist and seven other ...