2:31 PM Jul 16, 2011
A family's prayers have been answered as a Zeeland native reported missing more than two weeks ago finally returned home. Amber DeVoe moved to Boston nearly four months ago. After not hearing from her for several days, DeVoe's family filed a missing person report on June 27. DeVoe's father said a worker at the U.S. Embassy in Mexico called him Wednesday when his daughter showed up. He was reunited with her later that day at Chicago's O'Hare Airport.
9:10 AM Jul 16, 2011
A 19-year-old Grand Haven man received non-life-threatening injuries Friday afternoon when he was hit by a car while riding his bicycle. The man, whose name was not released, was riding his bike on Taylor Avenue at about 3:50 p.m. Friday when he was struck by a vehicle turning onto Taylor off Kooiman Avenue, Grand Haven Department of Public Safety Officer Joseph Schulte said. Schulte said the bicyclist received minor injuries and was taken to North Ottawa Community Hospital for treatment.
9:08 AM Jul 16, 2011
No one was injured after two vehicles collided at the corner of Griffin Street and Robbins Road on Friday afternoon. According to Grand Haven Department of Public Safety Officer Joe Schulte, officers were dispatched to the scene at 2:30 p.m. after a 49-year-old Grand Haven man, who was driving south on Griffin and turning east onto Robbins Road, struck a vehicle driven by a 29-year-old Grand Haven woman. The woman was driving east on Robbins Road and turning onto northbound Griffin.
11:30 AM Jul 15, 2011
A man is recovering after he was hit by a passing car in Norton Shores on Thursday. The incident happened around 6:45 p.m. on East Broadway Avenue, near the intersection with Worden Street, according to a witness. The owner Ozzie's Party Store said a customer was leaving his business and was taking his purchases out to his car, which was parked on East Broadway. The customer was walking to the driver's side of his vehicle when he stepped into the path of another car.
10:47 AM Jul 15, 2011
Authorities said a man who brandished a board and later a handgun during an argument involving a group of people on a Kalamazoo street was beaten with the board. Police said they found the 36-year-old man with head wounds on Thursday night. He was taken to a hospital, where he was listed in critical condition. Witnesses told police the man had the board when he approached a group of people and got into an argument with them. After the board was taken from him he pulled out a gun, and one person from the group beat him over the head with it until he fell to the ground.
11:05 AM Jul 14, 2011
A 64-year-old Detroit-area man is in jail on a $5 million bond on accusations he sexually assaulted children at an unlicensed day care center he ran with his wife. Stanley Duncan of Fraser is charged with eight counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, which has a penalty of up to life in prison. He was arraigned on Tuesday in Roseville District Court and has a July 20 preliminary examination. Two parents came to police with concerns that their 3- and 4-year-old daughters had been assaulted.
11:03 AM Jul 14, 2011
A Michigan man has drowned in Kentucky Lake in Kentucky after winds from an approaching storm blew his rental houseboat away from him. Lester E. Randall of Attica had anchored the boat in Sledd Creek and went swimming Tuesday night. Authorities said wind blew the boat away and Randall wasn't able to swim fast enough to catch it, according to The Paducah Sun. Randall was 39 years old. His body was recovered Wednesday after an overnight search.
10:38 AM Jul 13, 2011
Authorities said construction barrels warning motorists of a downed tree were removed from a West Michigan road before a motorcyclist slammed into it, sustaining fatal injuries. Van Buren County Sheriff Dale Gribler said the tree fell Monday. Severe storms hit southern Michigan that day, downing many trees and utility poles. The crash happened in Paw Paw Township, about 50 miles southwest of Grand Rapids. Tangled power lines prevented crews from removing the tree on Monday.
10:36 AM Jul 13, 2011
Authorities said a breaking-and-entering suspect punched a Battle Creek police officer in the face early today and tried to grab the officer's gun before the officer shot him in the arm. Police reportedly responded to the break-in about 1 a.m., and the officer tried to arrest the man. Police said the man hit the officer, forced him to the ground and tried to take his gun. The officer was treated for injuries to his face and released. The suspect was hospitalized for treatment of a non-life-threatening wound.
8:30 AM Jul 13, 2011
A judge has sent a Muskegon man back to prison for sexually assaulting his pet dog. Muskegon County Circuit Judge William Marietti ordered Jose Sanchez, 59, to prison for 17 months to 22 1/2 years. The judge also asked state corrections officials to get counseling for Sanchez. Sanchez told investigators for a pre-sentence report that he was sexually abused as a child. Sanchez pleaded no contest last month to bestiality. His parole officer was told the dog was sexually assaulted Aug. 2. The 60-pound female dog has been taken in by a foster family.
3:46 PM Jul 12, 2011
One person was injured in a two-vehicle accident early this afternoon on U.S. 31, south of Ridge Street. James Hicks, 52, of Muskegon Heights was taken to North Ottawa Community Hospital following the 12:30 p.m. accident on the northbound lanes of U.S. 31. Police said his injuries were not serious. Hicks was driving a 1997 BMW north on the highway when he either hit the wall and then a northbound pickup truck, or hit the truck and then the wall almost head-on.
11:15 AM Jul 12, 2011
Police said a 68-year-old man and his 24-year-old grandson have apparently drowned following an accident while fishing from a boat on a private pond in Mason County. The Ludington Daily News reported police were called to the pond in Eden Township, near Ludington, on Monday night. The Mason County Sheriff's Department recovered the bodies of the man with help from the Riverton Fire Department, Michigan State Police and others. Both men are from Scottville. Their names weren't immediately released.
10:50 AM Jul 12, 2011
One of two men charged with the armed robbery of the Oaklea Party Store in Robinson Township was sentenced Monday to serve between six and 40 years in prison. Scott Lee Richardson, 26, was also ordered to pay $20 in restitution and $198 in fines and costs. The Holton man was given credit for 83 days served in jail since the April incident. Richardson pleaded guilty to a charge of armed robbery June 6 in Ottawa County Circuit Court. In exchange for his guilty plea, a charge of being an habitual offender was dropped.
10:45 AM Jul 12, 2011
A Coopersville man was injured and one of his dogs went missing after he drove into the path of a semitrailer truck Monday afternoon, police said. Witnesses told police that Michael Mooney, 57, was driving east on Arthur Street when he ran a stop sign at the 48th Avenue intersection, said Ottawa County Sheriff's Sgt. John Wolffis. Mooney drove into the path of a semi pulling an empty livestock trailer, driven by 42-year-old Matthew Entrican of Caledonia. The vehicles collided and Mooney's 2007 Chevrolet pickup truck was thrown into the ditch.
12:30 PM Jul 11, 2011
Area emergency crews responded to several medical calls over the weekend at local beaches, a marina and the Grand Haven boardwalk. At 3:39 p.m. Saturday, police were called to the Grand Haven State Park about a 60-year-old female who was conscious but not alert. Lt. Joe Boyle of the Grand Haven Department of Public Safety said the woman was attending a bachelorette party at the beach and started to feel faint. She had not been drinking, Boyle said. The woman was taken by ambulance to North Ottawa Community Hospital. No further information was available this morning.
12:09 PM Jul 11, 2011
Three people were injured in a two-car accident reported at 10:43 p.m. Saturday near the entrance ramp to eastbound Interstate 96 near Coopersville, said Sgt. Bob Ruster of the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department. The most seriously injured, David Hanson, 31, of Grand Rapids, was in fair condition today at Spectrum Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids, a hospital spokeswoman said. Hanson was the front-seat passenger in a sport utility vehicle being driven by Jordan Gall, 16, of Coopersville.
11:58 AM Jul 11, 2011
Possibly a dozen homes were without power in a Spring Lake Village neighborhood off Lake Avenue after a storm went through just after 8 this morning, said Lt. Steve Bruneau of the Spring Lake Township Fire Department. Firefighters were called at 8:16 a.m. to a home at 320 Mark St. on a possible lightning strike and the smell of electrical burning in the house. Bruneau said the residents did not hear any loud crack from lightning and there was no damage to the house itself.