Fines

There cannot be anything less dignified than a bunch of lawyers fighting over the corpse of a hero who deserves to be honored and to rest in peace. Today, the battle is over Jim Thorpe. Tomorrow, maybe it will be over Ira Hayes. Thorpe won 1912...

Cases heard recently in Emmet County's 90th District Court: -- Kevin Matthew Horn, 38, of Petoskey; drunken disorderly person; $175 in court costs; $350 in fines and costs -- Matthew Mark Fruge, 32, of Boyne City; disorderly person disturbing the...

The thinking for the Chicago Bulls has been the same all season. They realized early they would play the bulk of the year without star guard Derrick Rose. It is that attitude that has allowed them to so easily adjust to playing most of the postseason...

The NBA fined Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau $35,000 for “comments he made about the officiating,” according to a news release from Stu Jackson, the league’s executive vice president of basketball operations. The league announced the fine...

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- The 2007 Players Championship seems like a long time ago for Phil Mickelson. Since he won for the only time at TPC Sawgrass, Mickelson has finished in the top 20 once, a tie for 17th place in 2010. But the Hall of Famer had not...

Hundreds of fish died, now the City of Wichita has to pay up. At least 800 fish were killed in the Arkansas river when sewage got into the water last May. Now the city will pay more than $240,000 in fines to the state and that's not all. The dam...

 Michael Robert Swanson, 41, Pukwana, speeding, fined $85.  Kanova Keyantia Tyrell Williams, 30, of 1515 S. Washington St., no S.D. registration in possession of S.D. carrier, fined $120.  Waylon Lee Severson, 17, Groton, unauthorized use of vehicle...

 Andrew Mark Murray, 35, Columbia, expired annual inspection sticker, fined $170.  Kenneth Dean Betts, 27, New York Mills, Minn., expired annual inspection sticker, fined $170.  Christopher Charles Loebs, 22, of 1729 S. Fourth St., seat belt...

— Chicago Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau was very short with his answers to reporters following Sunday's practice. He was even shorter when responding to the league fining him $35,000 for his recent comments about the officiating during the Bulls'...

DOWAGIAC, Mich. – You've likely been pulled over at some point in your life on a routine traffic stop and maybe you got a ticket, but have you ever had the officer ask you for cash up front? This happened recently to a South Bend truck driver in...

CHARLEVOIX -- A Boyne City woman was sentenced in Charlevoix County's 90th District Court last week and will spend 60 days in jail. Tammy Jo Remsberg, who was originally charged with a felony for allegedly stealing more than $10,000 from an elderly...

Manti Te’o is moving past the controversy that once seemed to taint his draft stock and is now focusing on stopping the run or getting to the quarterback for the San Diego Chargers. Te’o, who signed a four-year deal with the Chargers on...