State Roundup

Ypsilanti
Student reports prof for ending nap with kick
YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) — A sleeping Eastern Michigan University student may have been too tired to stay awake in class, but found the energy to report his professor for waking him up with a kick.

EMU Police Chief Bob Heighes tells AnnArbor.com the student was asleep in a 3 p.m. class in Pray-Harrold Hall on Monday, with his legs stretched out and a hat pulled down over his eyes.

The student told police the professor kicked him in the feet to wake him up.

Heighes says the professor at the Ypsilanti school told police “he believed the student was sleeping and asked him to wake up.”

Heighes says the investigation is closed because the student does not want to press charges. He simply wants to change into a different class.

Detroit
Woman dead, man injured after shooting
DETROIT (AP) — A woman is dead and a man remains in critical condition after someone shot them and set their car on fire on Detroit’s west side.

Detroit Police Sgt. Alan Quinn tells the Detroit Free Press witnesses heard gunshots and spotted the burning car at 1:40 a.m., near West McNichols and the Southfield Freeway. Police say a woman was found dead inside the burned-out green Ford Contour. The man was able to get out of the car and is being treated at a hospital.

Police say the suspect fled. An investigation is ongoing.

Grand Rapids
Craft beer industry displayed in iPhone game
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Thanks to a Grand Rapids software development firm, you can now hold the booming world of Michigan craft beer in the palm of your hand.

Fusionary Media has created the “Michigan Micro Caps” smartphone game; a casual time-waster that includes a full index of Michigan breweries.

The concept is quite simple and the game plays similar to the popular “Bejeweled” tile-matching game. Users attempt to form chains of adjacent brewery bottle caps and level-up by clearing the board of each chain.

The game doubles as a reference tool meant to expose beer fans to new breweries. The board populates each level with caps featuring logos from each of the currently 102 in-state breweries. When you touch a specific cap, the game gives you information on that brewery, including a location and social media contact.
Micro Caps is a free game available for Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android operating systems. It has nabbed more than 2,000 downloads between them since debuting in the Apple App Store in early June.