ALLEGAN COUNTY, MI – In 1975, self-styled prophet William A. Lewis, a charismatic, Chicago-area radio preacher, led a handful of followers to the House of Judah, a communal compound five miles east of South Haven. The congregation grew to maybe…[Continue Reading...]
ALLEGAN COUNTY, MI – Forty years ago, a 9-year-old Daniel Yarbough held his dying brother in his arms. The 12-year-old was beaten so badly he couldn’t take a sip of water. The men at the camp put him in the…[Continue Reading...]
In the northern reaches of Lake Michigan, the Emerald Isle ferry—departing from Charlevoix at the northern tip of the Lower Peninsula—takes about two hours to reach the lake’s largest island. As it approaches, homes, a lighthouse, and a red-roofed research…[Continue Reading...]
ALLEGAN, Mich. (WOOD) — July 4 marks the dark anniversary of when a mother who was part of a small religious cult beat her son to death in southern Allegan County. Twelve-year-old John Yarbough and his mother Ethel, 33, lived…[Continue Reading...]
A Michigan man who spouted antisemitic and Neo-Nazi ideals online was busted by federal agents for allegedly stockpiling weapons in preparation for a mass shooting at an East Lansing synagogue. Seann Pietila, 19, of Pickford, was arrested on Friday after…[Continue Reading...]
A Michigan teenager who authorities say expressed explicit neo-Nazi and antisemitic ideologies online was arrested Friday by the FBI who alleged he stockpiled weapons and was planning a mass shooting. The United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of…[Continue Reading...]
FLINT, MI – A former Flint-area Catholic priest convicted of the attempted sexual abuse of a 5-year-old boy in the late 1980s, was sentenced Tuesday to a year in jail and probation. Vincent DeLorenzo, 84, was sentenced June 13 by…[Continue Reading...]
A Michigan federal judge sentenced a man convicted of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to 16 years in prison Tuesday. Prosecutors said that Adam Fox was the leader of a plot to kidnap the Democratic governor from her…[Continue Reading...]
Three men were sentenced Thursday for providing material support for a terrorist act and two other state-level charges related to the 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, according to a statement from the Michigan attorney general’s office. Pete…[Continue Reading...]
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