Authorities said a $1,500 reward is being offered for information related to the beating death of a swan on Traverse City's West Bay. The Traverse City Record-Eagle reported that a man attacked the swan July 3. The reward is for information that results in the apprehension and conviction of the attacker. First Lt. David Shaw of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources' Law Enforcement Division said the case likely won't be solved without help from the public.

A teenager who police said told them he killed a 16-year-old Traverse City girl has been charged with murder. Robert Schwander, 17, was arraigned Thursday in a Grand Traverse County court on a first-degree murder charge in the death of Carly Lewis. He's charged as an adult. He entered a not guilty plea. Bond was denied. A preliminary hearing is June 27. Police believe Schwander, the son of a sheriff's deputy, killed Lewis on June 2 in a vacant building and moved her body to a sand pile at a public works site two days later.