10:43 AM Sep 30, 2011
A 25-year-old Battle Creek man has been charged with murder in this summer's death of a 3-year-old girl who was in his care. The Battle Creek Enquirer reported police were looking for Leo Ackley. He's charged with open murder and first-degree child abuse in the death of Baylee Stenman. Baylee died Aug. 1 at a hospital in Kalamazoo after being found unresponsive July 28. Charges were announced this week by Calhoun County prosecutors after autopsy results showed the child died from head trauma.
10:24 AM Sep 30, 2011
Detectives said a Grand Haven man was hit in the arm by an errant shot fired Thursday morning by a member of Grand Valley State University's public safety department, practicing a half-mile away at a Grand Haven Township gun range. Ottawa County deputies said the 30-year-old man went to North Ottawa Community Hospital for treatment of the gunshot wound. He told investigators he had been working on a home on Acacia Street when he was shot. Police said they found a house on Acacia had also been hit by a stray shot.
11:22 AM Sep 29, 2011
A Holland woman was injured after she drove her pickup truck into a building Wednesday afternoon, said Sgt. Jon Wolffis of the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department. Peggy McBride, 66, was taken by ambulance to Holland Hospital after the 12:19 p.m. accident, Wolffis said. She was listed in fair condition today at the hospital.
10:55 AM Sep 29, 2011
Police arrested a man and a teenage male Tuesday at a Holland apartment complex. Shortly before 8 a.m. Tuesday, a resident in the MeadowLane Townhouse complex told police he saw two individuals carrying items out of a neighbor's residence. The resident said he yelled at the suspects, who then took off running. A maintenance man in the complex said the suspects, who were wearing masks, ran through the complex. The maintenance man gave chase, police said, but the suspects attempted to elude him.
8:00 PM Sep 29, 2011
Authorities said about $60,000 is missing from a nonprofit club in the northwestern Lower Peninsula. The Traverse City Record-Eagle reported today that members of the Interlochen Eagles recently handed over financial records to Benzie County investigators. Sheriff Rory Heckman said he plans to ask prosecutors to charge a former club employee with embezzlement. Heckman said the case will be presented to prosecutors in the near future.
10:49 AM Sep 29, 2011
Police said a 36-year-old New Jersey man who was found dead in a mid-Michigan jail cell over the weekend had been subdued by officers using a stun gun during his arrest. Michigan State Police told the Morning Sun a stun gun was used Saturday on Bradford Gibson of East Orange by officers trying to get him to leave a bar in Mount Pleasant. An autopsy was conducted and investigators were awaiting a report about cause of death.
10:42 AM Sep 29, 2011
Authorities removed about 60 young people from a Portage school district school bus as they searched for weapons this morning. Police reported that nothing was found during the search. Sgt. James Myers said Portage police were told a student on the bus yelled at a parent whose daughter had just boarded the bus suggesting someone might "return with real guns.' On Wednesday, teens are suspected of shooting pellet guns at area homes. The woman reported the comment to the bus driver, who reported it to the bus garage. Police were called.
9:40 AM Sep 29, 2011
An unknown amount of cash taken during a Kent County bank robbery on Wednesday was tossed from a rental truck being pursued by police. Some of the money was recovered Wednesday by officers and passers-by, but some people are believed to have kept part of the cash, a witness said.
11:02 AM Sep 28, 2011
Authorities on Tuesday identified two Macomb County men killed in a private helicopter crash in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula. Dan Logghe, 46, of Richmond was piloting the helicopter when it went down Friday in Caledonia Township, about 85 miles north of Bay City, said state police in Alpena. His passenger was Mark May, 34, of Sterling Heights. A hunter found the wreckage Monday morning on his property in a remote part of Alcona County. Relatives told police that Logghe was headed to a hunting cabin near Alpena, about 15 miles from the crash site.
12:00 PM Sep 28, 2011
Prosecutors in Grand Rapids can pursue drug charges against a man who is permitted to grow medical marijuana but was caught with too many plants. The Michigan Appeals Court said the 88 plants seized by police a year ago were too many for Ryan Bylsma. The court today agreed with a Kent County judge who has refused to dismiss the case. Bylsma is a registered caregiver for two people, which means he can grow 24 plants. But the apartment he controlled in Grand Rapids had dozens more.

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