Top court removes judge from office
BRIGHTON (AP) — A judge facing criminal charges and ethics violations was removed from office late last month by the Michigan Supreme Court.
The court’s decision against Livingston County Judge Theresa Brennan was unanimous and came just nine days after justices heard arguments. The Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission had recommended her removal.
Brennan was accused of many ethics violations in how she ran her office as well as for a relationship with a state police detective during a murder trial. Separately, she was ordered to trial last week on charges of perjury and destroying evidence in her divorce case.
Brennan had been a judge since 2005.
Man from ‘Meet the Putmans’ found not guilty of gun crimes
BAY CITY (AP) — A Michigan man who appeared with his family on the TLC show “Meet the Putmans” has been acquitted of gun crimes.
MLive.com reports that a jury in Bay City returned its verdict recently in 33-year-old Brandon Putman’s federal trial.
Authorities say Putman tried to get copies of a component to convert an AR-15 into an automatic weapon that could shoot multiple bullets with a single squeeze of the trigger. He faced charges of receiving a firearm made in violation of the law and possessing an unregistered firearm and possessing a firearm lacking a serial number.
“Meet the Putmans” aired in 2017. It followed three generations of the Michigan family living under one roof.
Nevada trooper pulls over hearse traveling in HOV lane
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Nevada Highway Patrol says passengers must be alive in order to be counted as occupants in cars using the high occupancy vehicle lane.
The reminder was prompted by a traffic stop involving a hearse traveling on the carpool lane on Interstate 15 in Las Vegas.
A trooper pulled over the hearse that was transporting a dead body.
The agency says the hearse driver assumed the body in the back counted toward the two or more occupant requirement for the lane.
The trooper let the driver off with a warning and advised him to move out of the lane.
The agency says only living, breathing people can be counted for the HOV lane.
California man returns Hawaii library book 47 years late
HONOLULU (AP) — A California man who borrowed a cookbook from a Honolulu library has returned it after nearly five decades.
Hawaii News Now reports Patrick Powers delivered the "Hawaii Cooks" book to the Waikiki-Kapahulu Public Library last week while on vacation in the state.
Powers says he found the book last year in a storage box and decided it was finally time to return it.
He borrowed the book 47 years ago while living in Hawaii. It traveled with him when he later moved to California.
Powers gave the library a newer copy to replace his old, damaged one.
He expected to pay a hefty fine but there was no penalty.
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