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TRAINING VESSEL-SLAYING

Man sentenced in slaying aboard retired Navy training ship

PORT HURON, Mich. (AP) — A man convicted of slaying another man whose dismembered body was found on a former Navy training vessel in Port Huron has been sentenced to life in prison without parole. The Times Herald of Port Huron reports that Reginald Grasty appeared Monday at his sentencing hearing in St. Clair County Circuit Court. A jury had found Grasty guilty of first-degree premeditated murder in the 2020 slaying of 44-year-old William Orlow aboard the retired Navy ship Grayfox, about 68 miles northeast of Detroit.

YOUTHS RESCUED-LAKE MICHIGAN

Police: 2 Indiana brothers drown off Lake Michigan beach

SAWYER, Mich. (AP) — Two of four Indiana teenagers pulled from the waters off a Lake Michigan beach in southwestern Michigan have died. WSBT-TV reports that Baroda-Lake Township Police Lt. Wesley Koza said Monday that the two drowning victims were brothers from South Bend. Police in Berrien County were called to Warren Dunes State Park in Sawyer about 6:15 p.m. Sunday for a report of people in trouble in the water. Bystanders had hauled two of the teens from the water, while first responders reached the other two. They were taken to a Michigan hospital where two were pronounced dead. The conditions of the two survivors were not immediately available.

PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE-HOLE

Fan falls through Detroit footbridge on way to Tigers game

DETROIT (AP) — A man walking on a footbridge to a Detroit Tigers game says he fell 15 feet to the ground when part of the concrete collapsed. Ely Hydes said the incident occurred May 9. But the bridge over the Lodge Freeway still was open until The Detroit News reached out to the state Transportation Department on Sunday. Hydes says he was walking to Comerica Park with a friend when “the bridge just collapsed under my feet.” Hydes says he landed about six feet from traffic. He describes himself as a “giant walking bruise.” Hydes says “crazy things” happen to him at baseball games. In 2019, he caught a home run hit by Albert Pujols, the slugger’s 2,000th career RBI.

AP-US-BABY-FORMULA-SHORTAGE

US allows more baby formula imports to fight shortage

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration has announced new steps to ease the national shortage of baby formula, including allowing more imports from overseas. Officials also reached an agreement to restart a shuttered baby formula factory from Abbott, the largest in the U.S.. Neither step will have an immediate effect on tight supplies that have left many parents searching for formula online or in food banks.After getting the FDA’s OK, Abbott said it will take eight to ten weeks before new products begin arriving in stores. The company didn’t set a timeline to restart manufacturing.

POLICE INVOLVED SHOOTING-DETROIT

Suspect wounded by police during shootout in Detroit

DETROIT (AP) — Police in Detroit were investigating a downtown shooting over the weekend that left three people wounded, including one by police officers. The department says Sunday that officers responding late Saturday night to the sounds of gunfire saw a shootout involving a number of people. The officers took cover and fired shots that struck a suspect the department said was armed with a weapon. Two other people were wounded during the shootout. Each of the wounded were treated at hospitals. None of their wounds were considered to be life-threatening. Police recovered three guns from the area. Investigators were expected to review police body cameras and other video footage.

MICHIGAN WILDFIRE

Wildfire prompts northern Michigan hunting camp evacuation

ONAWAY, Mich. (AP) — Crews continue fighting a wildfire in a heavily forested area of northern Michigan that prompted the evacuation of 13 people from a hunting and fishing camp. Officials said the fire was reported mid-day Friday and spread by Saturday morning to about 2,300 acres in Montmorency and Cheboygan counties. They believe the fire was likely sparked by a lightning strike during a Wednesday thunderstorm. State officials say one firefighter suffered a minor injury. Those evacuated were from the Black River Ranch near the town of Onaway but no residential areas were immediately threatened. The area was under red flag warnings for wildfire danger this week because of dry vegetation and high winds.