No one was injured when a Park Township woman crashed her vehicle into the front of a Holland-area restaurant Friday afternoon, police said. Witnesses told police that Mary Jillson, 75, was attempting to back out of a parking space in the lot at Zoup!, 3435 W. Shore Drive, but instead drove forward. Police and firefighters responded to the restaurant shortly after 2 p.m. to find that Jillson, whose vehicle was about halfway through the front entrance area of the building, was trapped in her vehicle, police said.

When Sandra Shelley heard on the radio about the shooting of seven people in Grand Rapids Thursday evening, she was driving west to Muskegon on Interstate 96. Moments later, she and other drivers were diverted onto the Plainfield Avenue N.E. exit by two police officers who were standing near their car with their guns drawn, she said.

The past 12 months have seen the continued tremendous growth of the Folds of Honor foundation, highlighted by a very profitable partnership with Budweiser. Through it all, Maj. Dan Rooney remembers where the whole thing started. "The fact that it all started right here in Grand Haven, with a small band of brothers coming out to celebrate God and country, and to do it without apology, it's certainly a special time for me to come back here where it all started,' said Rooney, who along with his father John Rooney owns Grand Haven Golf Club.

A motorcyclist died Thursday night after crashing on a curve in Norton Shores, police said. Thomas Westra, 59, of Fruitport, crashed on the curve of westbound Seaway Drive at Green Street at about 9:15 p.m. Police said he was pronounced dead at Hackley Hospital in Muskegon shortly after the crash. Witnesses told police that Westra had left the Pin Crest Bowling Alley in Fruitport to go for a ride with friends. Witnesses said the motorcyclists were seen in the area driving at high speeds.

A leading candidate for Indiana governor has joined an effort in Congress to require a review of the potential harm to industries if Chicago-area waterways are closed to prevent Asian carp from entering Lake Michigan. Republican Rep. Mike Pence and Democratic Rep. Pete Visclosky on Wednesday filed a bill in the U.S. House that would mandate the study by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Pence, who is seeking the 2012 GOP nomination for governor, called Asian carp a "serious but manageable threat to the Great Lakes region.'

UPDATE (1:15 p.m.): An ex-convict who went on a deadly shooting spree targeted two ex-girlfriends, fatally shooting both of them and five members of their families, including his own 12-year-old daughter, police said today. At the start of his hours-long rampage, Rodrick Shonte Dantzler tracked down his daughter and her mother and killed them, along with the mother's own parents. He then went to a different house and killed another former girlfriend, plus her sister and 10-year-old niece.

Ottawa County Undersheriff Greg Steigenga said there were no officers directly involved with assisting in the tragedy that played out in Grand Rapids on Thursday, but there were deputies stationed in squad cars at a few main roadways in the county.