SW Michigan

A Battle Creek police officer was charged Monday with drunken driving and having a weapon while intoxicated. Calhoun County Prosecutor David Gilbert said he issued the warrant after reviewing a report from the Michigan State Police involving Jennifer Appl, 26. Gilbert said the warrants allege that Appl was legally drunk when she reported for work at 10 p.m.

ALAMO TOWNSHIP -- There will be no new noise ordinance on the books in Alamo Township. The township's Board of Trustees took a room of more than 60 people by surprise at its meeting Monday night when it voted to abandon a proposed noise ordinance.

LANSING - Lt. Gov. Brian Calley will lead a week-long trade mission to the Netherlands on Saturday, the governor's office announced today. Calley will travel with local and state officials, including House Speaker Jase Bolger, R-Marshall, and Agriculture and Rural Development Director Jamie Clover Adams. The delegation returns April 19.

PORTAGE, MI -- The night she was raped, Lauren Kyle was just hanging out with a boy from the neighborhood. But what started out as an ordinary walk on a warm summer evening turned into a sexual assault in the woods near Amberly Elementary School in Portage.