
Susan Samples
Senior Investigative Reporter at WOOD-TV (Grand Rapids, MI)
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A West Michigan guardian who stole from the people she was supposed to protect will serve time in prison. A Kent County judge sentenced Kimberley St. Onge to a minimum of 16 months in prison and a maximum of 10 years on each of three counts of embezzlement from a vulnerable adult. The sentences will run concurrently. Circuit Court Judge George J. Quist said he considered St. Onge’s relatively clean criminal history when determining her sentence.
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PORTAGE, Mich. (WOOD) — Moments after a tornado tore through Portage on May 7, 2024, Kate Nietzke emerged apprehensively from the basement of her Quail Street home. “God help us,“ she can be heard exclaiming as she recorded the damage on her phone. “Oh, my God. Help me.”Her living room was raining. “When I came upstairs and saw all the damage and rain just pouring in the middle of the house, I was shocked,” Nietzke recalled in a recent interview with News 8.
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yahoo.com | Susan Samples
PORTAGE, Mich. (WOOD) — Moments after a tornado tore through Portage on May 7, 2024, Kate Nietzke emerged apprehensively from the basement of her Quail Street home. “God help us,“ she can be heard exclaiming as she recorded the damage on her phone. “Oh, my God. Help me.”Her living room was raining. Weathering West Michigan: Portage Pride “When I came upstairs and saw all the damage and rain just pouring in the middle of the house, I was shocked,” Nietzke recalled in a recent interview with News 8.
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A set of bills advanced this week in the state House would set harsher penalties for drug dealers who peddle fentanyl, carfentanil, heroin and their derivatives. “These bills impose a mandatory minimum (prison term) for drug traffickers,” explained one of the bills’ sponsors, Rep. Sarah Lightner, R-Springport, in an interview Friday with Target 8 via Zoom. “We needed to figure out a way to disrupt the supply chain.
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Rus’s attorney said Rus “knows he missed the mark in parenting” but has done “everything he can” to improve, (parenting classes etc.) Quist sentenced Rus in middle of range, said he’s done some good things, but prior record, nature of crime called for 28 months in prison. https://t.co/gCiIr3wbru

Cedar Springs dad who locked 7 yr old son in wood box will serve at least 28 months in prison for felony child abuse. Judge George “Jay” Quist called Michael Rus’s crime “egregious,” & cited his prior record, which included 2018 misdemeanor child abuse conviction. @WOODTV https://t.co/xXV3xSDu7x

Jaime Westenbarger, fmr financial planner, sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for stealing $260,000 from clients of Ada-based Forest Hills Financial. Westenbarger told judge he’s “horribly embarrassed” and what he did was “completely awful.” @WOODTV