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1 month ago | 
fox17online.com | Zac Harmon |Olivia Yatooma |Julie Dunmire
ALPINE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The man arrested after Saturday morning's deadly shooting in Kent County now faces multiple criminal charges and possible deportation. Gilberto Hernandez-Mendez is accused of shooting his girlfriend, her sister and mother in their home on Tabor Road just off Alpine Avenue. The mother, a 56-year-old, was pronounced dead at the scene on February 22.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
fox17online.com | Olivia Yatooma
HOLLAND, Mich. — Snow or shine, Holland Harbor is a destination to many in West Michigan. Now, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has received authorization from Congressman Bill Huizenga to perform a study on deepening the water. But there isn’t money for this project, yet. "It’s called a feasibility study, and it's an investigation into deepening the harbor,” said Brian Korzetz, outreach coordinator for the Detroit District Army Corps of Engineers.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
fox17online.com | Olivia Yatooma
(WXMI) — The death of Jennifer Kasunick, a sophomore at Hope College who was hit and killed by a train, appears to be an accident according to law enforcement. It happened Saturday evening in Holland near 10th and Lincoln. We're told video shows that Jennifer stopped just west of the tracks, but didn't realize how close she was and was clipped by the train. At the scene, FOX 17 was able to see that there are gate arms that block off the road when a train is coming.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
fox17online.com | Olivia Yatooma
HOLLAND, Mich. — The evening of Jan. 11, Hope College lost one of its own. Junior Jennifer Kasunick was hit and killed by a train near 10th and Lincoln. Now, students and faculty from all across campus are coming together to honor her legacy and remember the impact that she left on the university. “I heard a student today say that she just never had a negative thing to say about anything," said Becky Starkenburg, Vice President for Student Formation and Dean of Students.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
fox17online.com | Olivia Yatooma
MUSKEGON, Mich. — Imagine an app that takes real live dogs from shelters across the country, turns them into animated characters, and then delivers weekly products and funds to these shelters to benefit the dogs you see on your screens. This app is real — and it's called TREAT. "You press play, and you pick out a dog," Karly Anderson, head of social media at the Noah Project, said. "You can choose any dog that's in our shelter.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
fox17online.com | Olivia Yatooma
ALLENDALE, Mich. — Imagine living with constant pain — pain that has no cure. This is life for 21-year-old Becca Boerma of Grand Rapids. Boerma is turning her pain into purpose by creating a display of ceramic art pieces to represent the chronic pain she's lived with for years. Boerma describes her pain by saying, “If you stub your toe, the pain is going to last for four minutes, if that," Boerma said. "If I stub my toe, it could last for four hours.”During her sophomore year of high school, "...
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
fox17online.com | Olivia Yatooma
SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. — Adding extra protection to South Haven’s beaches has been an ongoing conversation for decades. FOX 17 has reported on the back-and-forth effort to bring lifeguards back. City officials took a step forward in that effort Monday night with an approval of a service agreement with the United States Lifesaving Association (USLA). The group is now tasked with drafting up a proposal, laying out what a lifeguard program would look like.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
fox17online.com | Olivia Yatooma
MUSKEGON, Mich. — As West Michigan is coming off of a few warmer days, it’s soon back to lake effect snow. “It’s gonna get crummy. It's Michigan. We're getting into it. There's your warning," said Maintenance Superintendent for the Muskegon County Road Commission, Andrew Nichols. The recipe for recent West Michigan weather is all over the place. “It’s tough in Michigan sometimes, because the lake effect can do things you're not ready for," Nichols said.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
fox17online.com | Olivia Yatooma
OTTAWA COUNTY, Mich. — Ottawa County Probate Judge Mark Feyen is retiring after 36 years on the bench. “I just thought 36 years is enough," Judge Feyen said. "I’ve done a lot of things and I really enjoyed it and it’s just time to move on to other stuff."Judge Feyen was elected in November of 1988, handling everything from traditional probate cases to juvenile delinquency and neglect cases.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
fox17online.com | Olivia Yatooma
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The mom of a 13-year-old Grand Rapids boy who was shot in the face near Alger Middle School this past May is calling out the Grand Rapids School District. Javeon Childrey's mom, Bianca Bridgeforth, says her son was told to leave Alger Middle School, which led to Javeon and his friend walking to Alger Park where he was shot. “He left because he was told from a higher authority, which was the principal, and that's why I'm asking for accountability from him," Bridgeforth said.
