The four Coast Guard ships in Grand Haven for the Coast Guard Festival are open for tours. Following is the basic schedule. Actual schedules are posted at the individual ships. The schedules are subject to change. Today: 6-8 p.m. Wednesday: 6-8 p.m. Thursday: 10 a.m. to noon, 1-3 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Friday: 10 a.m. to noon, 1-3 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Saturday: 10 a.m. to noon, 1-3 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. All ships are docked at Escanaba Park. Different ships may be open at different times. In port for the festival are:

A 50-year-old Holton man, arrested following the armed robbery of a Ferrysburg convenience store on Saturday, demanded preliminary examination when he was arraigned by video late Monday afternoon in Ottawa County's 58th District Court. Bond was set at $250,000 for John Lee DeJong, after he was charged with armed robbery and fleeing a police officer. Joe Legatz will serve as DeJong's court-appointed attorney. A charge of operating under the influence of drugs is still pending the return of a blood test, Spring Lake/Ferrysburg Police Chief Roger DeYoung said.

Authorities said part of a man's arm was severed by a boat's propeller while he and his son were tubing Monday on Sanford Lake in Midland County. WNEM-TV reported the man was taken to a hospital for treatment following the midday accident at the lake. A Midland County Sheriff's Department dive team searched the lake for the arm for several hours Monday without success. The accident happened near Sanford Lake Park. Authorities said waves pushed the boat toward the man and his son.

Several area residents recently finished a nearly 500-mile bike trek as they participated in the Register's Annual Greater Bike Ride Across Iowa. Included in that group is Randy White, now a five-year veteran of the RAGBRAI. "This is my fifth year to complete the event, which was my original goal when I started,' said White, a PGA golf teaching professional and executive director of First Priority of the Lakeshore. "It was hard to believe I made it after being asked to join Bob Whipkey five years ago. It just gets in your blood.

Ignacio and Johnnathan Ybarra speed past each other, weaving circles on their motorcycles inside of a giant spherical cage - the Globe of Death. In the center stands their mother, Jeane Ybarra. She looks worried, but stands calmly in one place as one of her sons takes her purple top hat from her head and continues to race around her before placing it back where it belongs. The crowd roars. The trio is part of the Fantazia Circus, who performed at Waterfront Stadium on Saturday as part of the 2011 Coast Guard Festival.

Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been released from prison after serving 14 months for violating probation in a 2008 criminal case. A relative escorted Kilpatrick from a state facility in Jackson to a waiting vehicle shortly after 6 a.m. today. The 41-year-old Kilpatrick is free on parole but still faces a federal corruption trial that could send him back to prison. He plans to re-join his family in Texas.