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TRAVERSE CITY — A years-long battle over junk removal ended with an arrest Tuesday afternoon.

TRAVERSE CITY — Grace LaCoste, 22, was ordered to serve 21 days in jail and 18 months of probation after pleading no contest to fourth-degree child abuse.

TRAVERSE CITY — A former Central Day Care Center employee filed a civil lawsuit alleging she was fired after reporting abuse in the classroom.

TRAVERSE CITY — A former day care worker who was accused of abusing two 3-year-old children at the Central Day Care Center in Garfield Township in May has been convicted

BELLAIRE — A jury of seven men and 11 women was seated Monday after a daylong selection process in the trial of three men facing charges related to a plot

GREILICKVILLE — A Lake Leelanau woman charged with drunken driving causing death last December has entered a not guilty plea.

Jackson, Mich. — Three men were sentenced Thursday to serve a minimum of seven to 12 years in prison for charges related to the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, representing the longest ...

Paul Bellar, 22, Joseph Morrison, 27, and Pete Musico, 43, each were sentenced to a minimum of 7-12 years for providing material aid to terrorists.

Michigan 86th District Court Judge Michael Stepka ruled last Wednesday that sufficient evidence was presented in a preliminary hearing by state prosecutors to bound five men over for a trial on felony charges in Antrim County circuit court in connection with the plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan.

Five men were turned over for trial Wednesday on charges involving a foiled plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.