11:39 AM Jul 8, 2011
Police/Fire

Minor damage in Fruitport convenience store fire

A small fire at a Fruitport convenience store Thursday night was started by a cigarette butt thrown into a trash can, authorities said. Erin Trattles, an employee at Coop's Dock & Deli, 187 S. Third St., was about to close the store at 9:55 p.m. when she received a call from someone who could see smoke coming from the back of the building. Smoke could be seen coming from the rear of the building, and firefighters extinguished the blaze almost immediately.
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10:29 AM Jul 7, 2011
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Dad charged with murdering girl who was found bitten

Authorities filed murder, torture and child abuse charges Wednesday against a Flint man whose 2-year-old daughter's body was found with five human bite marks and a lacerated liver. Donovan L. Haynes, 20, was being held in the Genesee County Jail after his daughter, Tiarra Woodward, was found not breathing in their Flint Township home on Sunday. She was pronounced dead at a hospital. Some bite marks were fresh while others appeared to be a few days old, Township Police Chief George Sippert told The Flint Journal. He said the bites appeared to be from an adult.
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10:02 AM Jul 7, 2011
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Woman accused of offering daughter, 4, for sex gets prison

A 28-year-old Michigan woman who authorities said offered her 4-year-old daughter to a man for sexual purposes has been sentenced to about 3 1/2 to 7 years in prison. Authorities said Andrea Ziza of St. Clair sent a video of herself and her child in a compromising position to a man she met on a dating website. She pleaded guilty last month in court in Mount Clemens to six charges. A judge on Wednesday rejected her request to withdraw the plea before her sentencing. Charges include child sexually abusive activity and illegal use of a computer.
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10:30 AM Jul 7, 2011
Police/Fire

Crockery gunman sentenced

A Crockery Township man arrested after threatening his neighbor with a gun in May was ordered to spend 90 days in jail when sentenced Tuesday in Ottawa County Circuit Court. Joshua Curtis Andrews, 25 Forsythia, Nunica, had earlier pleaded guilty to charges of felonious assault and aggravated indecent exposure. A charge of possession of firearms while under the influence of alcohol was dismissed.
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10:44 AM Jul 6, 2011
Police/Fire

Surfer rescues tired swimmer off City Beach

A 17-year-old Grand Rapids boy received help from a surfer, after the teen became too tired to make it back to shore while swimming in Lake Michigan early Tuesday evening, said Lt. Joe Boyle of the Grand Haven Department of Public Safety. Emergency crews were called to the area of the City Beach in front of the Bil Mar Restaurant about 6 p.m. for a person in distress, Boyle said. The teenager was about 300 yards from shore. "(The boy) said he swam to the buoy and became too tired to swim back,' Boyle said.
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12:02 PM Jul 6, 2011
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Marne man arrested with gun at Grand Haven motel

A 39-year-old Marne man was arrested shortly after 10 p.m. Tuesday for possession of a gun while intoxicated, said Lt. Joe Boyle of the Grand Haven Department of Public Safety. Police located the man when they discovered his vehicle at the Rodeway Inn, at the corner of Beacon Boulevard and Taylor Avenue, in response to an alert sent over police radio to check on the man's well-being, Boyle said. Nobody was injured and the man was arrested without incident, Boyle said.
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2:01 PM Jul 6, 2011
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Police say drunk boy, 14, steals SUV, strikes tree

A 14-year-old Jackson boy has been turned over to his mother after driving drunk and crashing a stolen sport utility vehicle into a tree. WLNS-TV in Lansing reported police in Jackson County's Napoleon Township found the Dodge Durango about 9 a.m. Sunday. Police said they found the teen outside the vehicle. He was uninjured and was believed to have been wearing a seat belt. The boy had taken the Durango without permission from a friend's house.
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4:03 PM Jul 6, 2011
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CG sees rise in Great Lakes responses during holiday weekend

U.S. Coast Guard boat crews throughout the Great Lakes region saw thousands of vessels on the water during the Independence Day weekend and responded to several hundred distress calls.
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12:15 PM Jul 6, 2011
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Two hurt in collision at Grand Haven Skate Park

Two people were taken by ambulance to the hospital after colliding in the bowl of the Grand Haven Skate Park early Tuesday afternoon. Bob Hammond, 28, of Grand Rapids and Nick Heil, 16, of Fruitport, were both alert and talking when they were taken away by North Ottawa Community Hospital ambulance and were going to be OK, said Grand Haven Department of Public Safety Officer Tom Winegar. Police and paramedics put Hammond and Neil on backboards and slid the stretchers up a ladder from the skating bowl.
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3:07 PM Jul 5, 2011
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Ottawa County man sentenced in slaying of horses

An Ottawa County man who authorities said slit the throats of two horses belonging to his wife and a stable owner, as retribution for his belief that the two were having an affair, was sentenced today to 60 days on an electronic tether. An Ottawa County Circuit judge in Grand Haven also sentenced 47-year-old Dennis Finkler to two years probation, about $20,000 in restitution and fines, and community service. The Conklin man pleaded no contest in May to torturing and killing an animal, and malicious destruction of property.
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