A Fruitport woman was put on probation for three years when she was sentenced Monday in Ottawa County Circuit Court for embezzlement from a downtown Grand Haven business. Patricia Lou Shappee, 24, 391 Park St., had pleaded guilty to embezzlement over $1,000, but less than $20,000. She was also ordered to pay restitution of $25,452, as well as fines and costs of $198. Lt. Joe Boyle of the Grand Haven Department of Public Safety said the embezzlement occurred at a business at 207 Washington Ave.

Firefighters extinguished a fire this morning at a home under construction in the Albee's Cove subdivision, near 144th Avenue and Mercury Drive in Robinson Township. Robinson Township Fire Chief Paul VanVelzen said it appears the cause of the fire at 14258 Mackinaw Trail was due to an electrical problem with air conditioner power supply lines. "It was kind of a strange thing,' he said.

A 38-year-old woman was killed Thursday night in a three-car crash on M-45 in Tallmadge Township. The Ottawa County Sheriff's Department said Michelle Newman of Allendale crossed the center line and side-swept another car, then hit a pick-up truck head on at about 8:45 p.m. Police said Newman was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the truck, Allysia Ashman of Richland, is listed in fair condition at an area hospital. The accident happened near 24th Avenue, about 5 miles east of Allendale. It closed the road for four hours.

The Ohio State High Highway Patrol has seized more than $300,000 in illegal drugs and made three arrests in traffic stops along the Ohio Turnpike in northern Ohio. The patrol said the first arrests were made Tuesday in Lorain County when officers stopped a car for allegedly following another vehicle too closely. A drug-sniffing dog alerted officers to about $200,000 worth of cocaine and heroin in the car.

A rescue crew from Coast Guard Station St. Joseph plucked a recreational boater from Lake Michigan after his 38-foot boat sank Wednesday afternoon. Rescued was a 50-year-old man from Berrien Springs. His name is not being released. Coast Guard Station St. Joseph was contacted at 6:16 p.m. by the man on a marine band radio. The man reported he had looked into the engine compartment of his boat to investigate a burning smell and smoke, and saw the compartment begin to flood with water.

Two people were taken by ambulance to the hospital following a one-car accident shortly before 9 this morning on Griffin Street, according to Lt. Joe Boyle of the Grand Haven Department of Public Safety. An elderly couple was in a car that was southbound in the 900 block of Griffin Street when the driver had a medical incident and the car veered off the road and struck a telephone pole, Boyle said. The woman suffered minor injuries. Both of the occupants of the car were wearing seat belts, according to Boyle. Their names and conditions were not available.

UPDATE: Authorities have released the name of a Grand Valley State University student who died while playing basketball at an Allendale recreation center on Tuesday. They said Shane Anthony Peoples-Welch was a junior at GVSU and studying public administration. He was from the Saginaw area. The university's website said about 200 students gathered in the GVSU Kirkhof Center on Tuesday night for a memorial service.