State Roundup

Southgate
Woman loses suit over crash with federal agent
SOUTHGATE, Mich. (AP) — A federal agent has been cleared in a lawsuit over a crash that occurred while he was driving to a Detroit-area police shooting.
William Temple’s Ford Flex collided with Lynae Neal’s Lincoln Town Car in 2010 in Southgate. Temple’s unmarked car had a siren and flashing lights. He stopped at a red light, looked for traffic and hit the gas.
Neal says she heard a siren, didn’t see the agent’s car and continued east through the intersection.
A Detroit federal judge says the agent used due care and was responding to an emergency, even if a Taylor police officer had been shot more than two hours earlier.
The 51-year-old Neal says she suffered head and back injuries because of the crash. She was ticketed.

New York
Mich. trucker pleads guilty to weapon charge
CHILI, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a trucker from Michigan who had been accused of abducting missing Illinois woman has pleaded guilty to a weapon charge in upstate New York.
A spokesman for the Monroe County District Attorney’s Office says 41-year-old Dale Alan Houchins of Northville, Mich., admitted to fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon in a plea deal with prosecutors last month that dropped charges of first-degree criminal sex act and first-degree unlawful imprisonment.
Houchins was arrested in April after police went to the town of Chili on Saturday and found the 22-year-old woman and two handguns in his truck.
Authorities said at the time the two met online and at first engaged in a consensual sexual relationship, but that changed.
Houchins will be sentenced Aug. 20 to three years of probation that initially includes several months in a “shock” incarceration facility.

Ionia
Man convicted in 2012 death of his infant son
IONIA, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man has been found guilty of murder and child abuse in the death of one of his infant sons.
Jurors on Tuesday convicted Keith Thibeault of Portland in Ionia County Circuit Court.
Authorities say Everette Thibeault was brought to Sparrow Hospital in Lansing in March 2012 with injuries consistent with physical abuse. The child was 3 months old at the time and later died. Authorities have said the surviving twin had a broken leg.
Thibeault testified that Everette fell off the couch during a feeding. Defense lawyer Kevin Peterson has said brain swelling that occurred over the month before the child’s death after the infant fell is to blame.
Prosecutor Ron Schafer says children fall down every day and can get hurt, but “don’t just die.”
Flint
Police: Man shot after pointing gun at state troopers
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State Police troopers say they fatally shot a man who pointed a gun at them in Flint.
The Flint Journal, WEYI-TV and WSGW-AM report troopers were on patrol late Tuesday night when they spotted a man they said was acting suspiciously at an apartment complex. Police say they tried to speak with him, but he ran away.
Authorities say they followed him and after a short distance the man stopped, pulled out a gun and pointed it at them. Troopers say they fired shots after he refused orders to drop his weapon.
Two troopers have been placed on administrative leave in accordance with department policy during an investigation.
The Flint Journal says it’s the second deadly shooting involving a state trooper in Genesee County during the past two weeks.

Minnesota
Prosecutor: Mich. woman intended victim’s death
DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — A prosecutor says a Michigan woman accused of fatally stabbing another woman in a Duluth duplex wanted the victim to bleed to death.
Twenty-nine-year-old Nicole Leone Revello of Marquette, Mich., was charged in St. Louis County Tuesday with intentional second-degree murder.
Revello is accused of fatally stabbing 46-year-old Lisa Kay Davis of Duluth on Sunday.
The complaint alleges that the dispute started over some clothing that Revello took from the apartment. The Duluth News Tribune reports Duluth police say the dispute was over a pair of pants.
Prosecutor Kristen Swanson told the court Revello intentionally stabbed Davis once in the back and wanted to make sure the knife was removed so that the victim would bleed to death.
Bail was set at $250,000.