Police said a 40-year-old mom was the getaway driver in a series of car and home break-ins involving her son in Macomb County's Chesterfield Township. Joanne Hubbard, her 18-year-old son Ted Ohearn and another young man were charged Wednesday with several felonies, including home invasion and concealing stolen property. They were in jail and could not be reached for comment.

The North Bank Trail may have more of a railroad theme than first anticipated. The nonmotorized path - now under construction in the former Grand Trunk railroad bed in Spring Lake and Crockery townships - may traverse over historic trestles that once transported trains over a span of Crockery Creek. Spring Lake Township Community Services Director Lukas Hill said talks are under way with the property owner to acquire the trestles, which were built around 1908.

Today: Areas of fog before 11 am. Otherwise sunny, with a high near 85. East-southeast wind around 6 mph becoming southwest. Tonight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 73. South wind at 7 to 11 mph. Friday: A 50-percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 2 pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 83. Southwest wind at 13 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.

Ottawa County's monthly siren test for September is scheduled for noon Friday. The tests are conducted on the first Friday of each month, March through November. Sirens are sounded for approximately three minutes. For more information, call 616-738-4050.

A 17-year-old girl is expected to survive after falling up to 100 feet from a rock cliff at a Lake Superior shoreline park in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, police said today. Katherine Scarlet O'Brien had been walking with friends north of a scenic lookout platform at Presque Isle Park on Tuesday when she got too close to the edge. "The gravel slid away from her feet,' Marquette Police Capt. Gordon Warchock told The Mining Journal of Marquette.

Investigators from Coast Guard Sector Field Office Grand Haven are working closely with commercial salvage companies to develop a plan to recover the 44-foot sailing vessel Gypsy Soul and a 21-foot commercial towing vessel that both ran aground 2 miles south of South Haven inlet on Saturday. After the operator of the Gypsy Soul reportedly experienced a propulsion problem, a commercial towing vessel came to assist and tow it to shore. However, due to rough weather at the time, both vessels ultimately ran aground.

Village officials are attempting to turn lemons into frozen lemonade by taking unwanted material from the Grand River Greenway excavation work, capping it and sculpting it into a recreational sledding hill. While carving the nonmotorized path through the wetlands west of School Street earlier this month, contractors discovered trace amounts of metals and chunks of concrete in the soil. The cost of hauling the 650 cubic yards of material to a qualified landfill would have cost an estimated $80,000, according to environmental consultants.

A man's attempt to impress a girl was thwarted when Mike Ver Duin spotted something fishy going on outside his business late Tuesday night. Ver Duin was outside his home and talking to a neighbor when an older-model Ford sport utility vehicle pulled up in front of his adjacent business, Ver Duins at 623 Washington Ave., about 11 p.m. Tuesday, said Lt. Joe Boyle of the Grand Haven Department of Public Safety. A man got out, opened the back of his vehicle and proceeded to lift an approximately 6-foot-tall decorated "Rocket Fish' into the back, Boyle said.