Police/Fire

01:00 PM
Feb 22
2012

Woman charged after review of YouTube video

A Michigan woman is facing misdemeanor charges after authorities said they reviewed a YouTube video that showed her forcing her 2-year-old son to eat.

11:30 AM
Feb 22
2012

Speedway gas station robbed

Police are investigating an armed robbery at a Speedway gas station, 1815 Baldwin St. in Georgetown Township, early today.

10:22 AM
Feb 22
2012

Drunken driving arraignment waived for Lakeshore lawmaker

An attorney for state Rep. Bob Genetski has waived the lawmaker’s arraignment on a drunken driving charge.

08:20 AM
Feb 22
2012

Man found bludgeoned to death

Police said a 51-year-old man was bludgeoned to death by another man at a home in southern Michigan’s Calhoun County.

10:43 AM
Feb 21
2012

Damage ‘minimal’ in Casting Technologies fire

Damage may have been minimal, but the second fire in seven months at a local aluminum foundry has officials there thinking deep spring cleaning.

Firefighters were called to Casting Technologies Co., 14638 Apple Ave., just before 5 p.m. Monday on a possible fire in the ceiling.

10:39 AM
Feb 21
2012

Bike holds clue to ID of barn fire victim

Authorities said they’re hoping an abandoned bicycle can help them learn the identity of a person killed in a barn fire.

10:37 AM
Feb 21
2012

Cadillac woman, 91, dies in crash with church bus

A 91-year-old woman whose car hit a church bus carrying 38 children has died at a hospital in Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula.

06:09 PM
Feb 20
2012

Fire at SLT business

Firefighters were called to the report of a fire at Casting Technologies in Spring Lake Township shortly before 5 p.m. today.

Smoke was showing as firefighters arrived and the building was evacuated.

10:55 AM
Feb 20
2012

Police: Man fled scene of crash; charges sought

Police are seeking charges on a 40-year-old man who they said was involved in a one-car traffic crash near Airline and Sheridan roads in Fruitport Township on Saturday morning.

11:30 AM
Feb 17
2012

Police investigate five GH business break-ins

Police responded to an alarm activation in the 900 block of South Beechtree Street at around 3 a.m. today, and then found several businesses in that area had been broken into.

10:52 AM
Feb 17
2012

Suspect arrested in larcenies from cars in GH

A Grand Haven man arrested after taking items from cars is likely not the same person involved in recent “smash and grabs” in the area, according to Lt. Renee Freeman of the Grand Haven Department of Public Safety.

10:50 AM
Feb 17
2012

Driver of car dies in collision with Amtrak train

Authorities said the driver of a car near Lansing has died after the vehicle was hit by an Amtrak train heading from Chicago to Port Huron.

10:41 AM
Feb 17
2012

Man, 83, dies following home fire

Authorities said an 83-year-old man died following a fire at his Oceana County home on Thursday.

09:09 AM
Feb 17
2012

Female student hit by bus on GVSU campus

A female student was taken to the hospital this morning after being hit by a bus on the campus of Grand Valley State University.

03:25 PM
Feb 16
2012

Woman injured in GHT crash

One person was taken to North Ottawa Community Hospital with injuries after behind involved in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Comstock Street and 172nd Avenue on Thursday.

03:00 PM
Feb 16
2012

Muskegon County deer farmer charged with DNR violations

A Muskegon County man who raises deer on his Fruitport-area property faces misdemeanor charges for not properly maintaining records on their herds.

02:00 PM
Feb 16
2012

Barn fire kills about 20 cattle

Authorities in southwestern Michigan said a fire broke out in a 10,000-square-foot barn housing about 60 dairy cattle, killing about 20 of them and taking dozens of firefighters hours to extinguish.

01:00 PM
Feb 16
2012

Physician assistant convicted in Michigan assaults

A physician assistant from Michigan’s northern Lower Peninsula who authorities said hypnotized and sexually assaulted two women has been convicted of second-degree criminal sexual conduct.

12:00 PM
Feb 15
2012

Man stabbed at sports bar near West Shore Mall

Authorities said a man hid under a car after stabbing a customer at a sports bar in Holland Township.

10:22 AM
Feb 15
2012

Fire damages Robinson Twp. home Tuesday

Damage was estimated at more than $50,000 in a Valentine’s Day house fire on Stump Street off 104th Avenue, Robinson Township Fire Chief Paul VanVelzen said.