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TRAVERSE CITY — It was mid-October, about 4 p.m., when Deputy Isaac Hearld noticed a car stopped in the median of South Airport Road.

A Connecticut man pleaded guilty to child sex crimes Thursday after being accused of traveling to Kalamazoo to coerce a minor into having sex.

Feliz admitted that from 2022-2023 he used Discord, an internet messaging platform, to coerce the Kalamazoo girl to create and distribute child pornography of herself.

A man has admitted to sexually exploiting a West Michigan minor after being extradited from Spain to face federal charges, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Michigan.

After the National Park Service stopped dredging the Platte River at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore on Michigan’s lower peninsula, built-up sediment created a sandbar separating fishermen from a coho salmon run.

Andrew Howard is waiting to be sentenced for tampering and vandalism after he made an illegal channel between the river and Lake Michigan in August 2022

A Kaleva man has been arrested for allegedly encouraging minors to engage in self-harm and sexually explicit activity online for his own gratification

Andrew Howard of Frankfort was found guilty of tampering and vandalism Wednesday during a brief trial in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Ray Kent.

Andrew Howard of Frankfort was found guilty of tampering and vandalism Wednesday during a brief trial in front of U.S. Magistrate Judge Ray Kent.

A man was convicted this week on two federal charges after he diverted the Platte River by hand through Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in Michigan.