Articles labeled: Grand Rapids

Authorities have reunited a mother and her 11-year-old son, who had been missing for 3 days. The boy’s stepfather has been arrested and charged with kidnapping.

Grand Rapids Police found the boy and arrested Mikell Huff on kidnapping charges after receiving a call from the youngster. David told police he was at the home of a classmate in Grand Rapids, and police picked him up and reunited him with his mother early Wednesday evening.

“I just hugged him and hugged him and hugged him,” Leah Huff said tonight.

Earlier today, Mikell Huff called his wife and said the two were in Saginaw and the child was fine. At the time, police were in the process of seeking a warrant for his arrest.

A 12-year-old boy with autism fell into a creek in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and was caught up in the current.

The river rescue team helped Conner Folkertsma, 12, up and over a fence to dry land around 12:30 p.m. Monday.

His sister told 24 Hour News 8 he wanted to go down to the creek behind West Catholic High School’s stadium and the neighboring cemetery. He was told no, but ran off along the swollen creek bank, lost a shoe, and fell into the racing waters.

“I kept telling him (to) grab onto something,” his sister Danielle Folkertsma said. “He tried so hard to grab on to something and he just kept yelling and it took him away. I couldn’t get him.”

The parents of a Michigan toddler that drowned have been sentenced to 400 hours of community service after a judge ruled their neglect was responsible for the drowning. Seems like a rather light sentence…

Misty Harvey, 29, and Jamie Harvey, 33, will serve that sentence and spend three years on probation under an order fashioned by county and state authorities as punishment for Grandon Harvey’s death.

The couple pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter after they found their boy inside their home on Sept. 25. A charge of marijuana possession was dropped as part of the plea deal. They could have faced up to 15 years in prison.

A 14 year old who attempted to open and shut a slightly ajar car door fell onto the street where several cars ran over her.

Her mother claims she tried to prevent cars from running her over but nobody would stop. I might be skeptical of this, if I hadn’t personally witnessed on several occasions, drivers running over animals when they were clear, visible and within stopping distance. Perhaps these people thought it was an animal, in which case, they should be charged with vehicular homicide. Now, I don’t know all the facts of course and it could very well be that they couldn’t stop in time or they didn’t expect a person to be laying on a busy highway. From this short story though, it appears that the drivers just drove off. Horrible.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Feb. 3 (UPI) — A 14-year-old girl died after falling from a moving van onto a busy Michigan highway where she was struck by several vehicles, it was reported Sunday.

Merida Mateo-Pablo of Grand Rapids, Mich., tried to open and shut her family’s minivan door Saturday night. The momentum of the sliding door pulled her out of the van and on to U.S. 131, WOOD-TV, Grand Rapids, Mich., reported.

Police said the family’s car was traveling 70 mph when she fell out of the van. She was not wearing a seatbelt.

In a world in which bad news dominates, it’s so nice to hear about an out-pouring of support and help for a mother down on her luck (not only is she down on her luck, she also just gave birth to triplets!).

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Offers of help are pouring in for a homeless Michigan woman who recently gave birth to triplets.

“We have received hundreds of calls,” said Janie Bergeron, who directs Green Gables Haven, a Barry County shelter where Monica Roberts, her babies and her mother are staying.

Bergeron’s staff is working overtime this week to return telephone messages.

“There are literally hundreds of people we’re trying to call back,” she told The Grand Rapids Press for a story published Tuesday.

Invitations to take in the 33-year-old mother and her babies have been proffered by people in Holland, Kalamazoo, Lansing and beyond.