11:30 AM Sep 2, 2011
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Car hits golf cart in Georgetown Township

Three people were sent to a Grand Rapids hospital after the golf cart they were riding was struck by a car Thursday afternoon. Sgt. Steve Austin of the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department said the incident occurred at 1 p.m. at the intersection of Baldwin Street and Bluebird in Georgetown Township. According to Austin, 33-year-old Stacy West of Jenison was driving the 2009 golf cart east on Baldwin Street, and attempted to turn left onto Bluebird when she was struck by a 2003 Nissan driven by Kathryn Dorsey, 28, of Grand Rapids. Dorsey was driving west on Baldwin.
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6:00 PM Sep 2, 2011
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18 doctors, nurses, others charged in $28M fraud

Federal officials in Detroit said doctors, nurses and other medical professionals are among 18 people who are charged with schemes to steal $28 million from the Medicare program. The government said authorities arrested 15 defendants Thursday, and one was arrested in July and two remain at large.
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10:31 AM Sep 2, 2011
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Accountant pleads guilty to foundation theft

A woman who was an accountant at Munson Healthcare in northern Michigan has pleaded guilty to embezzling $1.1 million from a hospital foundation. The government said Susan Morrison spent the money for her personal enjoyment and transferred it to the bank account of her former business, the Great Lakes Bear Factory. She pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court and will be sentenced on Dec. 8. Morrison worked at Munson for about 11 years. Her duties included paying payroll taxes and making deposits into employee retirement plans.
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9:26 AM Sep 2, 2011
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Former MSU, NBA player to be sentenced today

Former NBA player and Michigan State University star Jay Vincent is asking a judge to keep him out of prison so he can repay victims of a fraud scheme. The 52-year-old Vincent was scheduled to be sentenced today in federal court in Grand Rapids. He pleaded guilty to fraud and tax charges. The government said Vincent and an associate defrauded 20,000 people out of more than $1 million by charging them to become certified home inspectors.
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10:29 AM Sep 1, 2011
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Muskegon County drops some jail mail restrictions

The Muskegon County sheriff has changed a policy that forced jail inmates to use postcards if they wanted to write from behind bars. But Sheriff Dean Roesler is still restricting mail sent to jail inmates, calling it a security issue. Mail must be on a postcard, not a letter in an envelope. Roesler said he decided to change the policy Tuesday night and was not influenced by a protest by about a dozen people outside his home Wednesday. The protesters held a large sign that said, "Freedom of speech denied.'
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10:28 AM Sep 1, 2011
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Authorities foil international car theft ring

A Detroit-area business owner was among 13 people arrested as part of a two-year federal probe into the theft and transport of luxury rental cars and sport utility vehicles from the United States to Canada for shipment and sale in Iraq. Adnan Hana was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on conspiracy and transportation of stolen goods.
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10:26 AM Sep 1, 2011
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Police: Mom drove getaway car during son’s thefts

Police said a 40-year-old mom was the getaway driver in a series of car and home break-ins involving her son in Macomb County's Chesterfield Township. Joanne Hubbard, her 18-year-old son Ted Ohearn and another young man were charged Wednesday with several felonies, including home invasion and concealing stolen property. They were in jail and could not be reached for comment.
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10:45 AM Aug 31, 2011
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‘Rocket Fish’ theft thwarted

A man's attempt to impress a girl was thwarted when Mike Ver Duin spotted something fishy going on outside his business late Tuesday night. Ver Duin was outside his home and talking to a neighbor when an older-model Ford sport utility vehicle pulled up in front of his adjacent business, Ver Duins at 623 Washington Ave., about 11 p.m. Tuesday, said Lt. Joe Boyle of the Grand Haven Department of Public Safety. A man got out, opened the back of his vehicle and proceeded to lift an approximately 6-foot-tall decorated "Rocket Fish' into the back, Boyle said.
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10:43 AM Aug 31, 2011
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Norton Shores burglary suspected arrested in GR

A man wanted for questioning in several residential burglaries in Norton Shores was apprehended in Grand Rapids on Tuesday. Johnny Carlie Brown was taken into custody by the U.S. Marshals Service's Absconder Unit at approximately 2:30 p.m. on an outstanding warrant. Authorities received a Silent Observer tip that he was in the Grand Rapids area. Brown was later turned over to the Norton Shores Police Department.
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8:30 AM Aug 31, 2011
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Convicted embezzler sentenced in tax credit case

A convicted embezzler who was on parole when he briefly obtained a $9.1 million state tax credit in 2010 was sentenced Tuesday to up to eight years in prison after pleading no contest last month to attempted fraud. Richard A. Short also pleaded no contest to unlawfully using a financial transaction device for using the ATM card of an 87-year-old neighbor, now deceased, who had dementia. Genesee County Circuit Judge Joseph Farah sentenced Short to 20 months to eight years in prison.
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