Articles labeled: Michigan

A baby in Michigan was found safe after having lived with his mother who authorities say had died days before.

Police say a Saginaw teen who escaped naked from a youth home robbed and pushed a woman working in her yard.

A learning disabled boy was found by authorities after living with his dead mother for 10 days. This is starting to become a disturbing trend.

A Michigan couple is being charged with manslaughter after their teenage daughter died in a house fire — because she was chained to her bed.

Douglas Fisher says he filed the charges Monday against Anthony and Marsha Springer in a court complaint.

Each is to be arraigned Dec. 15 before St. Joseph County District Judge William Welty. Each faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of either charge.

Sixteen-year-old Calista Springer died in her second-floor bedroom in the February fire.

Wow, authorities better keep an eye on this kid, a future serial killer in the making.

Livingston County authorities say a 13-year-old boy sexually assaulted a girl on her 11th birthday, killed her cat, threatened her mother and beat up her brother and another young boy.

Pinckney police Chief Denis Aseltine says authorities filed charges Nov. 3 after belatedly learning of attacks from April to October.

Aseltine tells The Ann Arbor News the boy assaulted the girl at her Putnam Township home in April. Aseltine says the boy later knocked the girl’s 8-year-old brother off his bike, threatened their mother by phone and stomped an 11-year-old boy.

A drunk woman in Michigan fell into the Clinton River while pushing her 22-month-old child in a stroller, and is now being charged with child abuse.

German exchange student told police he saw commotion by the gazebo at about 5:30 p.m. Monday and realized the woman and the stroller carrying the baby fell in.

Nicolas Eckhoff jumped in the frigid waters and pulled the child from the stroller and out of the water. Eckhoff was with a Mt. Clemens woman who laid down on the wall to reach for the mother.

The toddler was treated at Mt. Clemens Regional Medical Center, and then turned over to the county’s child protective services for foster care placement, said police.

Preliminary breath tests revealed Branch had a blood-alcohol level of 0.28% — more than three times the drunken driving limit in Michigan of .08.

Last month a teen was shot for egging a car, and now another teen has been shot for toilet papering a house. We’re officially coining the new phrase “prank rage”.

A toilet paper prank has led to the shooting of a 14-year-old by a southwestern Michigan man who believed strangers were trying to break into his home.

The Grand Rapids Press and WZZM-TV report the victim and four other teens were pulling the prank about 1 a.m. Sunday at a home in Solon Township, about 20 miles northeast of Grand Rapids.

Kent County sheriff’s Lt. Jerry Miedema said the teens were intent on draping the house in toilet paper, while the homeowner’s “intent was to come out shooting.”

An Amber Alert has been issued for a Detroit, Michigan woman and her 2-year-old son who police say were abducted at gunpoint by the boy’s father.

Last seen wearing a red shirt and a diaper, 2-year-old Zayshawn Diggs is described as 3 feet tall, weighing 30 pounds with black hair, black skin and brown eyes.

Akeem Lafabhili, 22, took the boy and his mother, Racheal Latoshia Diggs, at 11:45 p.m. Sunday from the 8900 block of Vaughn on Detroit’s northwest side, Detroit Police Sgt. Eren Stephens Bell said. The boy’s mother had left Lafabhili last week, and police had responded to a domestic violence complaint involving the couple in June, Bell said.

Anyone with information about the situation can call Detroit Police Department Domestic Violence at 313-833-9813.

Police in Detroit are searching through neighborhood dumpsters after they received a report from a woman telling them that her boyfriend threw their baby in the trash.

The Detroit News, Detroit Free Press and broadcast reports say police were looking for the baby Tuesday night and Wednesday morning following the 29-year-old woman’s examination Tuesday at a hospital. They are also searching for her 35-year-old boyfriend, the baby’s father.

The Detroit woman, who was bloodied and caked with mud when she checked herself into the hospital, said she had suffered a miscarriage. But police say she later said her boyfriend had taken the baby from her and threw it into a trash bin.

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 Michigan teenager defies all odds as she walks away nearly unscathed after being struck by lightening. So good was her luck, that the next day she won the lottery! Mind you, it was only $20, but hey, you gotta give her props for her all her good karma.

BLANCHARD, Mich. — BreAnna Helsel escaped serious injury after being struck by lightning while inside her house.

The teenager’s good fortune continued the next day, in the form of a winning lottery ticket.

Helsel, 16, was at her home in Blanchard, about 48 miles northeast of Grand Rapids, watching thunderstorms roll by on June 6 when she noticed rain entering an open kitchen window.

“She went to close the window and the lightning came through and hit her,” her mother, Linda Johnson, told The Daily News of Greenville. “We think it must have hit the house or something.”

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.

An 11-year-old boy was hiking through the woods in Manistee County, Michigan, when an eagle came out of nowhere and attacked him. On later reflection he realized that wearing his mouse costume wasn’t such a good idea.

Radio station WKLA reported Alex Birch was attacked by the eagle about 9 p.m. Sunday in Copemish. He was treated at a local hospital for numerous cuts and scratches to his back, head and neck.

It was not clear what led to the attack.

Copemish is located in the northern portion of the Lower Peninsula about 25 miles southwest of Traverse City and 105 miles north of Grand Rapids.

When we were teens we had a hard enough time finding weed to smoke, much less bake with. (Minor Topics does not endorse marijuana use, kids!)

West Bloomfield School District officials have suspended a boy believed to be the baker of a batch of brownies laced with marijuana that cut short a Cedar Point trip for 275 students.

And West Bloomfield High School Principal Bob Pyles said another male student who is believed to have been involved in the distribution of the brownies could be suspended.

According to school officials, a boy was sickened after he said he ate a brownie Wednesday while on a chartered school bus en route to the Sandusky, Ohio, park.