DETROIT — Michigan’s Republican-controlled Legislature has asked an appellate court to overturn a judge’s preliminary injunction currently stopping Michigan’s abortion ban from being enforced.
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years in a decision by its conservative majority to overturn Roe v. Wade. Friday’s outcome is expected to lead to abortion bans in roughly half the states.
The first expungement assistance clinic hosted by the Ottawa County Public Defenders Office saw 70 people who attorneys were able to help start the process of removing felonies and misdemeanors from their criminal record.
A West Olive man was sentenced to prison Monday on charges relating to having “sexual relations” with a young family member.
Ottawa County residents will have a chance to have previous criminal records set aside next week at an expungement clinic.
MUSKEGON — After months of evidence, a judge will soon decide if dozens of wolfdogs will remain at a Muskegon County animal sanctuary called Howling Timbers.
WEST OLIVE — The Ottawa County Clerk’s Office has received reports from residents who have been visited at their homes by individuals claiming to be county employees and seeking to verify residents’ voter information and voting history.
WEST OLIVE — The Ottawa County Clerk’s Office has received reports from residents who have been visited at their homes by individuals claiming to be county employees and seeking to verify residents’ voter information and voting history.
Ottawa County will have a fifth Circuit Court judgeship position beginning in 2023, after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill giving the county and others in Michigan additional judgeships.
Davidson College senior Brandon Harris sat in a Maryland courtroom Tuesday as a judge decided the fate of a lifelong friend.
ROCHESTER HILLS — The mother of a teenager who is accused of killing four students at his Michigan school told her boss earlier that day that "she felt as if she was failing" her son, according to testimony Tuesday.
ROME (AP) — Retired Pope Benedict XVI asked forgiveness Tuesday for any "grievous faults" in his handling of clergy sex abuse cases, but denied any personal or specific wrongdoing after an independent report criticized his actions in four cases while he was archbishop of Munich, Germany.
SPRING LAKE TWP. — As the principal of Spring Lake High School remains on leave during an investigation, WZZM-TV looked closer at the process when it comes to the law, and what steps could happen next.
Yaceair Divers, 17, of Grand Rapids pleaded guilty Tuesday in Ottawa County Circuit Court in connection with the Aug. 18, 2021, armed robbery of the T-Mobile store in Grand Haven.
A former Grand Haven Area Public Schools assistant superintendent has pleaded no contest to embezzling more than $950,000 from the school district.
A former Grand Haven Area Public Schools assistant superintendent pled no contest to embezzling more than $950,000 from the school district during a hearing in the Ottawa County Circuit Court on Monday morning.
The University of Michigan has agreed to a $490 million settlement with more than 1,000 people who say they were sexually assaulted by a former sports doctor during his nearly four-decade career at the school, the university and those involved in the settlement announced Wednesday.
Public trials that include juries are suspended in courts across three West Michigan counties due to the high rate of COVID-19 infections.
The arraignment for a former Grand Haven Area Public Schools administrator accused of embezzlement from the school district was postponed for a second time Friday.
The arraignment for a former assistant superintendent for the Grand Haven school district originally scheduled for Monday morning in Ottawa County Circuit Court has been postponed to later this week.
Scholten Fant recently announced that the Michigan Super Lawyers magazine has named Tiffany R. VanderKolk to its 2021 list of “Rising Stars.”
A prosecutor continues to criticize the decision to keep a teenager in a Michigan school before a shooting that killed four students last week, raising questions about whether staff and the school district will face liability — criminal or civil — in the tragedy.
MUSKEGON COUNTY — A trial is underway for a man police rescued while swimming in Lake Michigan near the Grand Haven pier in August 2019.
The State of Michigan reported 6,093 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 from Saturday through Monday. The average number of new cases over that time is 2,031 per day.
TAMPA, Fla. — She gets to the hospital 20 minutes before her shift, walks through the lobby carrying a smoothie, hoping — but not believing — that today might be better than the day before.
WEST OLIVE — Ottawa County commissioners approved a move banning, among other things, the use of drones at its county parks.
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A U.S. District Court Judge has ruled in favor of the City of Grand Haven in a lawsuit filed by the heirs of Martha Duncan.
The administrator for Ottawa County’s Circuit Court, Kevin Bowling, has been named to the state’s new Justice For All Commission for a one-year term.
Ottawa County Circuit Judge Jon Hulsing was named vice chairperson of the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission during its election of officers on Jan. 11.
GRAND RAPIDS — Members of anti-government paramilitary groups implicated in an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor over measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus during a fraught election year also discussed abducting Virginia’s governor during a June meeting, an FBI agent testif…
DETROIT — The Michigan Supreme Court has denied Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s request to delay the effective date of its decision that ruled the law underpinning Whitmer’s executive orders was unconstitutional.
In a year where a global pandemic has wiped out most art shows, a group of local artists put their heads together and came up with a new type of event this past weekend.
An Ottawa County court official was recently awarded a national organization’s highest honor.
A Coopersville man charged with involuntary manslaughter in the death of his wife has had his trial postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Crockery Township man remains lodged in the Ottawa County Jail on charges related to an incident in which he barricaded himself inside his house and stood off police for several hours earlier this month.
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Lane closures for work on the southbound lanes of U.S. 31 bridge at M-104 will be in effect Tuesday (today) until 3 p.m.
WEST OLIVE (AP) — A group of West Michigan homeowners are fighting a seawall that could prevent two houses from tumbling into Lake Michigan.
A phone call from the jail was played and Facebook Messenger communications between the defendant and the deceased read during the second day of the trial for a Ferrysburg man charged with supplying drugs that caused a Grand Haven woman’s death.
A man who police say broke into two Coopersville-area homes and assaulted the residents was arraigned Thursday on four related charges in Ottawa County District Court in Grand Haven.
A Grand Haven man charged with sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl was sent to prison for a minimum of 25 years when he was sentenced Monday in Ottawa County Circuit Court.
A 43-year-old Spring Lake man apologized to his victims, but lamented that he put his trust in the wrong people.
A 19-year-old Allendale man was ordered to serve 60 days in jail and was put on probation for two years when sentenced Monday for a drunk driving crash that seriously injured a Detroit-area man near the Grand Valley State University campus.
A Muskegon woman was given a chance to prove to her 3-year-old child that she will never steal again when she was sentenced to 18 months probation Monday in Ottawa County Circuit Court.
A Greenville man apologized to the victim’s family before he was sent to prison Monday for a crash that resulted in the death of an Allendale woman.
Scott Allen DeBruyn, 56, entered a not-guilty plea when he was arraigned Monday afternoon in Ottawa County Circuit Court in connection with a drug-related death.
A Grand Haven man with a mental disability was formally charged with the murder of his roommate when arraigned in 58th District Court on Monday afternoon.
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