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Muskegon Heights man pleads guilty to heroin delivery

August 3, 2015
Muskegon Heights man pleads guilty to heroin delivery

By Allison Scarbrough. OCP Editor. HART — A 48-year-old Muskegon Heights man is looking at an eight-and-a-half month jail sentence after pleading guilty Monday, Aug. 3, in 27th Circuit Court to possession with intent to deliver less than 50 grams of heroin. James William Sydnor, Jr., testified Monday that police searched him after he exited a vehicle, May 6, at…

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Love-triangle crash nets jail term

August 3, 2015
Love-triangle crash nets jail term

By Allison Scarbrough. OCP Editor. HART — A 42-year-old Rothbury man who caused a crash fueled by a love triangle last March was ordered to serve 60 days in jail of a six-month discretionary sentence in 27th Circuit Court Monday, Aug. 3. Robert Bernard Moore pleaded “no contest” to one count of felonious assault last June, stemming from the crash…

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UPDATE: Baxter is home!

August 3, 2015
UPDATE: Baxter is home!

HART — Baxter, the 7-year-old Pomeranian who got scared due to last night’s storm and ran off from his family’s home in downtown Hart, has been found and is back home. Baxter was found about an hour after OCP posted a story that he was missing.  

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Please help Baxter!

August 3, 2015
Please help Baxter!

HART — Baxter, a 7-year-old Pomeranian, got scared from last night’s storm and ran off from his family’s home in downtown Hart. Has anyone seen him? Please contact Crystal at 231-742-0080 with any information regarding his whereabouts. He is missed and loved.

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Police: Dollar store tantrum lands 13-year-old in detention facility

August 3, 2015

By Allison Scarbrough. OCP Editor. HART — A 13-year-old boy from the Ferry area was lodged in the Ottawa County Juvenile Detention Center after causing a disturbance and resisting police Saturday evening, Aug. 1, at the Family Dollar store on Polk Road, said Hart Police Chief Dan Leimback. No one was injured in the 7 p.m. incident, which involved the…

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