Man gets minimum of 20 years in mid-Michigan crash that killed 2
ST. JOHNS, Mich. (AP) — An Illinois man has been sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison for a drunken-driving crash that killed a mid-Michigan woman and her young son.
A Clinton County judge also ordered 55-year-old Thomas Hahn on Monday to pay more than $260,000 in restitution.
Hahn had pleaded no contest to two counts of driving while intoxicated causing death and one count of driving while intoxicated causing serious injury. The Lansing State Journal reports that Hahn, who was critically injured in the March crash, crossed the Interstate 69 median in Eagle Township and struck another vehicle head-on.
Thirty-six-year-old Dana LaHaie of Lowell, Michigan, died at the scene and her 6-year-old son, Reed, died two days later.
LaHaie's husband, Ryan LaHaie was seriously injured.
OCBA to celebrate diversity and present awards at Taste of Diversity reception Oct. 17
The Oakland County Bar Association (OCBA), along with partnering affinity bar associations, will gather with colleagues at the biennial Taste of Diversity cocktail reception on Thursday, October 17 at the Great Lakes Culinary Center in Southfield, celebrating the diverse and multi-cultural legal profession.
Two award recipients will be honored at the reception. James J. Parks of Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss, P.C. in Southfield is the honoree of the Leon Hubbard Community Service Award, which recognizes a record of community service and the promotion of cultural diversity, advanced social equality, and work to enhance the quality of life for all people. The D. Augustus Straker Bar Association is the honoree of the Michael K. Lee Award, which recognizes the demonstration of commitment to promoting cultural diversity in the legal community.
Funeral planned for Michigan soldier, decades after death
IRONWOOD, Mich. (AP) — The remains of a Michigan soldier will be interred this weekend in an Upper Peninsula cemetery, 77 years after he died in a World War II prisoner camp.
New technologies helped the Army in July identify the remains of Walter Kellett, who lived in Ironwood when he joined the Army in 1940. He was assigned to the Army Air Corps in the Philippines.
Kellett's obituary says he was captured by the Japanese and forced to march more than 60 miles as part of the Bataan death march. Authorities believe he died from malaria and dysentery in 1942. Kellett was 22 years old.
A memorial service will be held Saturday at the McKevitt-Patrick Funeral Home in Ironwood, followed by interment with military honors at Riverside Cemetery.
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