GRAND RAPIDS (AP) — A federal judge has denied a new trial request by two men convicted of conspiring to kidnap Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Lawyers for Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. alleged misconduct by a juror and unfairness by U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker following ...

MARQUETTE — A 38-year-old Comstock Park man was arrested at the Mackinac Bridge for the human trafficking of a 16-year-old Grand Rapids girl. The Kent County Sheriff’s Office Human Trafficking Task Force arrested the man after a staff member with the Mackinac Bridge Authority saw the man ...

LANSING (AP) — Elizabeth Clement is the new chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. Clement was the unanimous choice of her colleagues on the court. She takes over from Bridget McCormack, who is leaving the court as soon as Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, picks a ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A Michigan man arrested in the August stabbing death of a Green Bay man is accused of taking selfie videos and photos with the victim’s body, writing a Bible verse on the victim’s wall and leaving a handwritten apology. Caleb Anderson, 23, of Caspian, Michigan, ...

LOVELLS, Mich. (AP) — An 80-year-old Michigan hunter who got lost and repeatedly fell into a river was rescued by canoe after a police dog tracked down the soaked man. The man’s wife called Michigan State Police on Wednesday evening after her husband, who had gone out to track deer, ...

DETROIT — Lawyers for Michigan’s former health director are urging an appeals court to quickly stop an effort to revive criminal charges related to the Flint water crisis of 2014-15. Nick Lyon’s defense team made the plea this week in response to a pledge by prosecutors to try to save ...