Muskegon: Police say burglar brought her daughter, 2, on job
MUSKEGON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — Police say it was “bring your daughter to work” day for a woman they say took her 2-year-old girl with her when she broke into a western Michigan home.
Police in Muskegon County’s Muskegon Township say they arrested the woman and the woman’s mother after Saturday’s burglary.
Twenty-six-year-old Nicole Bugajski and 51-year-old Kimberly Mahnke were arraigned Monday on home invasion charges.
Police tell The Muskegon Chronicle an elderly man who lived at the house unsuccessfully tried to block the women’s vehicle with his pickup truck.
Police stopped the women’s vehicle nearby and found Bugajski’s daughter inside. She’s now in protective custody.
No one answered the phone Tuesday night at the women’s home in Egelston Township.
Detroit: Michigan’s first governor to be re-interred
DETROIT (AP) — Michigan’s first governor will be re-interred next week in a Detroit park.
Crews looking to relocate the remains of Stevens T. Mason in a downtown Detroit park this summer initially failed to find a coffin. The metal casket eventually was found encased in a concrete vault buried about five feet down.
The ceremony to rebury Mason’s remains will take place at 1 p.m. Oct. 27 in Detroit’s Capitol Park, the site of Michigan’s first capitol.
Mason was elected governor in 1835 and re-elected in 1837. He served two more years and eventually left the state to practice law in New York. He died there in 1843 and was buried.
His remains were returned to Detroit in 1905 and buried in Capitol Park. He was re-interred in the 1950s.
Lansing: Dems pick replacement for dead Senate candidate
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Democratic Party leaders have picked Kalamazoo Mayor Bobby Hopewell as a replacement for a dead candidate in a western Michigan state Senate race.
Kalamazoo County and Van Buren County party officials met Tuesday night to chose a replacement for state Rep. Robert Jones on the Nov. 2 ballot. The Kalamazoo Gazette reported the results.
The 66-year-old Jones died Sunday after a yearlong fight against cancer. He also served as Kalamazoo mayor before entering the Legislature.
The 46-year-old Hopewell will run against Republican Tonya Schuitmaker in the 20th district.
The Senate seat is now held by Republican Tom George of Kalamazoo County’s Texas Township. George can’t run again because of the state’s term limits law.
