Amber Alert

Staff at Grand Rapids' John Ball Zoo held a public gender reveal party for the newborn pygmy hippo born last week, Wyoming City Manager Patrick Waterman has been chosen to be the next Ottawa County Administrator, and more.

A similar Republican-sponsored bill passed the Michigan House of Representatives last week with near full support

A West Michigan lawmaker supports the creation of a missing senior or vulnerable adult public alert system

The body of Wynter Cole Smith was discovered Wednesday evening near a municipal airport about 6 miles northeast of downtown Detroit. Chief Ellery Sosebee of the Lansing Police Department says the investigation “has moved from a missing child case to a homicide investigation.”

A statewide Amber Alert was issued for the disappearance of a 2-year-old who was taken from her Lansing home late Sunday. Her mother’s ex-boyfriend has been accused of kidnapping her, but she wasn’t with him when he was arrested by police Monday in suburban Detroit

Michigan will create an Amber Alert-like system to quickly warn people of mass shootings, terrorist attacks and other nearby "public threats."Legislation…