Muskegon Heights News

Vernon Nash and his family were asleep in their Muskegon Heights home around 7:30 a.m. Monday when fire broke out in the attic area.

The following people have been sentenced in circuit court. 14TH CIRCUIT COURT MUSKEGON COUNTY Judge Quinn E. Benson Saul Douglas Briggs, 49, of Muskegon Heights, 10 months Muskegon County Jail, two years probation for resisting/obstructing police, habitual fourth.

Norton Shores City Council members have given their final OK to an increase in water and sewer rates.

A masked man who tried to rob a Muskegon Heights business Wednesday night left empty-handed, and police still were seeking the suspect.

Holton, Oakridge, Montague and Coopersville all spend more than 28 percent of their general fund budgets on support services, including administration, transportation and operations.

The Michigan Court of Appeals has upheld a prison sentence that was far above state guidelines for a Muskegon Heights woman convicted of trying to poison her 1-year-old daughter in February 2008.

Police said Sunday that Tommy Watts, the apparent victim of an early morning stabbing Saturday, left a local hospital without being treated.

Roosevelt Park city officials began deliberations last week as they consider multiple offers from neighboring communities to provide water and fire service for their residents.

A stabbing believed to have occurred early Saturday behind a Muskegon Heights tavern remains under investigation.

A recent parolee who was living in Muskegon Heights - and was featured on the state's Most Wanted Sex Offenders Web site - faces up to life in prison after the Michigan State Police arrested him as an absconder from the sex offender registry list.

MICHIGAN The Michigan State Police says they have arrested the first two "Most Wanted' sex offenders of 2010.

Talonda Sullivan, 34, of Muskegon Heights is a recently unemployed machinist who would like to be a skilled electrician to help support her three children.

The Michigan State Housing Development Authority is beginning the first round of Neighborhood Stabilization Program grants worth more than $7.5 million to 15 cities.

A regional environmental group hopes a light goes on this spring for Muskegon-area residents - in more ways than one.

She was known as a "trailblazer for women" and a "warrior of civil rights." The efforts of longtime Muskegon resident Katherine Wansley have been recognized posthumously by the Urban League of Greater Muskegon.

Ashley Jagnecki's hand is silhouetted against a projection screen displaying math problems as she answers a question in Laurie Mancuso's eighth-grade Advanced Algebra I class at Bunker Middle School.

In Gladys Givan's world, black people weren't allowed to live in white neighborhoods and many white businesses wouldn't hire them.

Dave Simpson, of Hofstra Masonry Inc., Muskegon, works on installing cement blocks as part of the construction of a bath house that will have a fish-cleaning station at Mona Lake Park in Muskegon Heights.

There's no doubt that the number of local events honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Muskegon firefighters battle a house fire in this 2007 file photo. The city of Muskegon is considering fire service options to save money, including offering fire service to Roosevelt Park and Muskegon Heights while weighing a Muskegon Township fire service proposal.