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LANSING — The Michigan Attorney General’s Hate Crimes and Domestic Terrorism Unit has issued two felony charges against an Ottawa County man for threatening gun violence over the course of his appeal in a separate case against the state.

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GRAND RAPIDS — U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, Mark Totten, announced that the owners of ASP Plating Company of Grand Haven were sentenced for violating the Clean Water Act and collectively ordered to pay more than $50,000 in financial penalties.

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LANSING — In a letter to the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel admonished the behavior of certain board members for their lack of “transparency and good governance,” and for violating the trust placed in them as elected officials by their constituents.

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Ottawa County’s “interim” health officer has filed lawsuits against seven Ottawa Impact-backed county commissioners, claiming they’re preventing her from doing her job and “constructively terminated” her by voting to demote her during the board’s inaugural meeting.

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SEATTLE (AP) — The public school district in Seattle has filed a novel lawsuit against the tech giants behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among youth.

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GRAND RAPIDS (AP) — A Delaware trucker described as an architect of the conspiracy to kidnap Michigan's governor was sentenced Wednesday to more than 19 years in prison — the longest term yet given to anyone convicted in the plot.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court says it won’t take the plunge into a dispute over Michigan State University’s decision to end its swimming-and-diving teams, a decision female athletes sued over.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority sounded sympathetic Monday to a Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for gay couples, a dispute that’s the latest clash of religion and gay rights to land at the highest court.

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BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore judge on Monday ordered the release of Adnan Syed after overturning Syed's conviction for the 1999 murder of high school student Hae Min Lee — a case that was chronicled in the hit podcast "Serial," a true-crime series that transfixed listeners and revolutionized…

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WASHINGTON — Fourteen of the 15 boxes recovered from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate early this year contained classified documents, many of them top secret, mixed in with miscellaneous newspapers, magazines and personal correspondence, according to an FBI affidavit released Friday.

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GRAND RAPIDS — U.S. Attorney Mark Totten announced Monday that ASP Plating Co. of Grand Haven, along with company officials Gary Rowe and Stephen Rowe, have pleaded guilty to criminal violations of the federal Clean Water Act.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Scholten Fant recently announced that the Michigan Super Lawyers magazine has named Tiffany R. VanderKolk to its 2021 list of “Rising Stars.”

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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.

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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.

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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…