Tyler Sutton is just a year older than the Coast Guard Festival's annual downtown car show, but the Grand Haven teen was dreaming of seeing a car more than twice his age on Sunday. Sutton, 18 - wearing a wool cap and black T-shirt - said he's attended the festival's car show for many years. He doesn't yet have his own car. "Wish I had the money for it and I'd have one,' Sutton said as he checked out a 1967 Chevy Impala SS. "If I had my choice out of this, probably a ‘69 Chevelle.'

A former Ludington library employee who was fired in 2008 for writing a book that describes a range of unpleasant patrons is suing. The federal lawsuit claims "Library Diaries' author Sally Stern-Hamilton was "fired for engaging in protected speech.' in Grand Rapids. Using the pen name Ann Miketa, Stern-Hamilton wrote the book she described as a fictional account based on her on-the-job experiences.

It's been long overdue for Don Roberts and his wife Carolyn to compete at the Coast Guard Festival Run. The Lakeland, Fla., residents and Battle Creek natives have quite the running log: Don, 79, said he's been running competitively for 33 years, while Carolyn, 77, has 25 years of experience. "We like to see how many states we can run in. We'd like to do all 50,' Don said. "We had a competition with our son at one time to see how many we could get to.

Authorities said a boat struck and killed a woman who was swimming off her own anchored boat on Saturday. Hillsdale County Undersheriff William Whorley said the accident happened about 2:40 p.m. in Bear Lake. It's in Cambria Township, about six miles southwest of Hillsdale and about 12 miles north of the Ohio line. According to Whorley, 49-year-old Cynthia Hiszak of Temperance was out boating on the lake with her husband, James. The undersheriff said a boat driven by 48-year-old James Jonassen of Hillsdale struck Hiszak and then the couple's boat.