Michigan meat processor ordered to pay fines after teen lost hand in grinder
The owner of a meat business in western Michigan has been ordered to pay nearly $1,200 after a 17-year-old worker lost his hand in a grinder.
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The owner of a meat business in western Michigan has been ordered to pay nearly $1,200 after a 17-year-old worker lost his hand in a grinder.
John Figg, 56, of Grand Rapids, is ordered to pay $870,000 in restitution to the United Bank of Michigan and $146,300 to the IRS. He is also sentenced to three years of supervised release following his time in prison.
Trice had two items on the docket during his court appearance on Tuesday-- a preliminary hearing and a detention hearing.
A grand jury has indicted a young Michigan man who is accused of making threats over social media and having plans to target a synagogue near Lansing.
A superseding indictment alleges Gerald Bennett attempted to hire a fellow inmate to kill an expected witness in the case, stating that he would fake incompetence to give the inmate time to be released and commit the killing.
Summer-like heat has caused the closing of public schools Thursday and Friday in Michigan's second-largest city and shorter class days in Detroit.
A Grand Rapids-area man has been charged with involuntary manslaughter after his girlfriend's 2-year-old son found his gun and fatally shot himself.
Museum officials in Grand Rapids, Michigan, showed off mastodon bones that were unearthed last year during a drainage dig in the western part of the state and belonged to a juvenile male mastodon that lived 13,000 years ago.
The charges stem from a May 3 incident in which a second-grade student brought an unloaded gun in a backpack to Cesar E. Chavez Elementary School, Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker said in a news conference.
The new antelope at John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids was killed Tuesday by a pygmy hippo, zoo officials announced.
Faced with deciding between making a jumbo payment and keeping their existing vehicles, more owners are choosing to stick with what they have, even if it means spending more on repairs and maintenance.
Authorities say two workers are being treated for chemical burns after one fell into a vat at a Grand Rapids electroplating plant.
Federal authorities in Michigan have filed charges against nine people in a scheme to defeat air-pollution rules by tampering with software and hardware in heavy-duty diesel engines.
The former head of a Michigan marijuana licensing board has pleaded guilty to bribery.
There are many beautiful places to spend one's retirement in the Great Lake State, and few ways to go wrong. Still, those looking to make the most of their golden years in Michigan should consider some of the state's top retirement destinations, as highlighted by leading retirement experts and Michigan natives.
A businessman has pleaded guilty to bribing the head of a Michigan marijuana licensing board, the first conviction in a federal investigation into payoffs and other benefits.
The former head of a Michigan medical marijuana licensing board admits he accepted $110,000 in bribes to influence his decisions.
City leaders say policing reforms and outreach to Grand Rapids' Black community, including the clergy, helped to keep the peace after Lyoya's slaying. Others believe the reform efforts have been slow and their impact superficial at best.
Federal officials say John Figg, 56, could face up to 30 years in prison for embezzlement and five years for tax evasion.
Bank of America cardholders can get free admission to several Michigan museums this weekend thanks to the company's Museums on Us program.
Christopher Schurr is scheduled for trial March 13 in the shooting death of Patrick Lyoya last April. Circuit Judge Christina Elmore rejected defense attorneys' motion to throw out the case.
A former Michigan police officer who shot a Black motorist in the back of the head during a struggle over a Taser should not have to stand trial, the defendant's attorneys argued as they urged a judge to dismiss the case.
Detroit placed among the top ten cities for bed bugs, falling two spots from last year's report. Flint, Grand Rapids and Lansing also ranked on the list.
Michigan's civil rights watchdog announced two charges of discrimination against the Grand Rapids Police Department on Wednesday, further heightening scrutiny of the department following an officer's killing of a Black motorist in April.
Attorneys Ben Crump and Ven Johnson held a press conference Wednesday to announce a civil lawsuit on behalf of Patrick Lyoya's family.
