Muskegon County News

A 14-year-old wanted for home invasion, sexual assault and felony firearms violations has turned himself in to the Muskegon Police Department.

Cat lover Jacoba DeVries can't have pets where she lives, so for her 100th birthday her family took her to the Humane Society and Animal Rescue of Muskegon County where she could visit with 45 cats.

The progress of a planned project that will turn some acres at Alcoa Howmet's Plant 4 campus into native landscapes will be updated at a meeting next week.

Muskegon County's unemployment rate rose to 15.8 percent in May while Michigan's regional seasonally unadjusted jobless rates for May ranged from a low of 9.1 percent in the Ann Arbor region to a high of 16.5 percent in the Flint area.

Empty Michigan prisons -- including one scheduled for closure in Muskegon -- could become home to hundreds of California inmates if a deal can be struck.

The public is invited to an open house to welcome the new director of Muskegon County Habitat for Humanity.

A 54-year-old Muskegon man has been charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl with mental disabilities.

The Muskegon County Sheriff dive team was searching parts of Muskegon Lake and the channel to Terrace Point Marina Saturday afternoon after an empty kayak was discovered floating in the area.

All three western Michigan arts camp orchestra members whose illnesses grounded a planned European tour tested positive for swine flu.

Muskegon Police have issued a search warrant for a 14-year-old who allegedly broke into a home and sexually assaulted a woman living there.

A 40-year-old Muskegon man has been charged with using the Internet to solicit minors for sex, including a special agent he thought was a 14-year-old girl.

Three men charged with the murder of Willie C. Rice allegedly devised a detailed plan to rob him, assigning one of them to "case out" his home before two others entered with weapons just before 1 a.m. Saturday, authorities said.

People who have recently lost their jobs can get help from the Salvation Army paying for a variety of needs, ranging from gas for their cars to telephone bills.

Muskegon County Commissioner Bob Scolnik is recovering from injuries sustained in a motorcycle crash Sunday on U.S. 31 -- an accident that has the 65-year-old thankful to be alive.

Willie C. Rice was a loving father and a "snazzy dresser" who loved to fish and to host fish fries for the neighborhood at his Spring Street home, his family said.

Families in Muskegon County are invited to a party, and there's no cover charge.

The Lake County parole absconder accused of robbing a local bank on May 27 then fleeing the area with an accomplice has been arraigned.

Now that Muskegon Public Schools are out for the summer, playground programs through the Muskegon Department of Leisure Services will begin next week.

The man Muskegon County's prosecutor said was involved in the worst case of child porn he had ever seen plead guilty in court Friday to three counts of first degree criminal sexual conduct.

Posted: 6-15-2009 Free cake at county sesquicentennial The County of Muskegon will kick off its Sesquicentennial year with a special free 150th Birthday Celebration on Saturday, June 20, at 3 p.m. The celebration will take place in front of the new 'Muskegon Rising' sculpture at the corner of Western Avenue and Third Street.