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.

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.

A Grand Haven man is still in the hospital following a two-car accident Sunday afternoon in Wright Township. Walter Draeger, 72, remained in fair condition this morning at Spectrum Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids, a hospital spokesperson said. Sonja Draeger, 72, has been discharged from the hospital, she said. Police said the Draegers were traveling on Cleveland Street at the intersection of 24th Avenue late Sunday afternoon when their 1990 Mazda Miata was struck by another vehicle, which ran a stop sign.

The Muskegon Police Department is investigating the discharge of a firearm by one of its officers late Sunday night at an incident in the area of Fifth Street and Southern Avenue. Responding officers were originally sent to the area on a call of shots fired and found three people. The first officer advised one man to raise his hands, and the person pulled a handgun from the waist of his pants and raised it toward the officer, reported Muskegon Police Capt. Andrew Olson. The officer - a six-year veteran - fired a single shot at the man, missing him.