A Grand Rapids man is facing two felony fraud charges after allegedly stealing from a Spring Lake condo association.
The rules committee of the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners held its first meeting of the year Tuesday, which saw a tense discussion between commissioners.
Seven commissioners being sued by Ottawa County’s health officer have asked a Muskegon County judge to dismiss the claim, saying she was never appointed to the position in 2022 and therefore lacks legal standing.
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.
A second lawsuit has been filed against the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners.
MUSKEGON — A judge has granted Ottawa County’s health officer a temporary restraining order, temporarily preventing the Ottawa Impact county commissioners from removing her from her position.
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.
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.
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.
A lawsuit filed by a Spring Lake family against the Ottawa County Central Dispatch Authority has been transferred to the United States District Court.
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.
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.
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.
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.
LANSING — A bill introduced to the Michigan Legislature could land families with transgender children in serious trouble with the law.
A Coopersville man pleaded guilty to a third-degree criminal sexual conduct charge Monday in the Ottawa County Circuit Court.
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…
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.
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.
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.
UPDATE 10:20 a.m.
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.
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