“Use that first half mile to see how lucky we are to be out here running today,” Brett Beier, who organized the run, said from the platform of the grain elevator shortly before a moment of ...

WWMT-TV says the run was held Tuesday evening in the Kalamazoo suburb of Portage. Brett Beier tells MLive.com that he posted the idea for the memorial run on the Kalamazoo Area Runners' Facebook ...

Runners in southwestern Michigan plan to hold a memorial event to promote unity following the Boston Marathon bombing. Brett Beier tells the Kalamazoo Gazette a run will take place Tuesday evening.