GRAND RAPIDS – Rashad Trice was sentenced to a second life term Friday for kidnapping 2-year-old Wynter Cole-Smith from her Lansing home and strangling her with a telephone cord. Seven days after an Ingham County District Court judge sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole for first-degree murder, Trice received the […]
LANSING — Photos of the injuries suffered by 6-year-old Levy Robinson four years ago were shown on a video screen in a Lansing courtroom Wednesday as the man who killed him stood before the judge for sentencing. “He never woke up,” Ingham County Assistant Prosecutor Sarah Pulda told a judge, referring to Levy. She showed […]
Nearly two years after a shooting that left three people dead and scores more injured, there is still no trial date in the case. Ezekiel Kelly, the man authorities say fired the shots, appeared in court Monday morning. His attorney told Shelby County Criminal Court Judge James Jones Jr. that the defense plans to bring […]
ALLEGAN COUNTY – A local man has been sentenced to prison again for sexually abusing a minor. Kevin James Thorne, 52, was sentenced to 50 to 180 months in prison by Judge Margaret Bakker in Allegan County’s 48th District Court on Monday, Aug. 5. He was given credit for 881 days, just over 29 months, […]
