Ahmed Sheikh Mohamed, 47, was sentenced to seven years in prison for conspiracy, food stamp fraud and theft of public money from various welfare programs, U.S. Attorney Donald Davis said Tuesday.
Two state parole agents have been suspended as officials investigate why two ex-convicts now charged in the slaying of an 80-year-old woman at her suburban Detroit home were free at the time of the killing, the Michigan Department of Corrections said.
A 23-year-old Fruitport man was arrested last week for child abuse involving a 10-month-old-victim.
Police said the man was watching the child at his home in the village of Fruitport while the child's biological mother was at work.
A Muskegon man was killed Friday morning when his car slammed into the back of a semitrailer truck stopped at a red light on northbound U.S. 31 in Olive Township.
A hospital accrediting group is investigating a complaint that University of Michigan officials waited six months before telling police that child porn was allegedly found on a computer flash drive in a locked hospital lounge.
The Grand Haven Department of Public Safety arrested a subject Thursday in connection with the Jan. 11 breaking and entering of Pfaff's Pharmacy, 1125 Washington Ave.