The Community Foundation and its Community Capital Club (C3) group are hosting the 2025 “100 Men” event on September 4th. The event goal is to have at least 100 men attend at a cost of $100 each and then give away $10,000 that evening to a local nonprofit program, project or organization. The 2025 event will be hosted on the south side of Port Huron at the site of one of the largest mixed-used waterfront developments on this side of Michigan.

Reporting for WGRT – Jared Cerullo

A second suspected member of a Venezuelan gang is now arrested in Michigan. US Customs and Border Patrol says agents arrested a man believed to be a member of Tren de Aragua in Macomb County. Last week, the 30 year old was taken into custody during a traffic stop. The vehicle was reportedly stopped because of a fake license plate. Local police contacted CBP when they realized there were three undocumented men inside the car. One of them was known to have connections with a Venezuelan street gang that formed in the country’s prison system and is now considered a foreign terrorist organization.

Reporting for WGRT – Jared Cerullo

An overdue boater in the Michigan waters off Lake St Clair has been found safe having run adrift after fuel ran out on the personal watercraft. The Ira Township Fire Department, along with South Water Rescue were requested to help after emergency dispatchers got a report that the boater was an hour overdue for arrival back at the boat launch.

Reporting for WGRT – Jared Cerullo

A 16 year old boy is accused of throwing lit fireworks at people during the city’s festival in Sterling Heights. The incident happened at the Sterling fest, a three day community festival along Utica road that includes a carnival, live music, art and food trucks. At least one person suffered a severe burn injury.

Reporting for WGRT – Jared Cerullo

A Port Huron man will go to jail for a robbery outside a local Walmart store St Clair County Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Lane sentenced Eric Chippewa to a year after his charge of armed robbery was reduced to unarmed robbery as part of a plea deal. Police had previously said that Chippewa approached a truck driver in the parking lot in Fort Gratiot and asked for $20 from the truck’s driver. When the driver refused, Chippewa said he had a gun and demanded the money. Chippewa apparently never did actually have a gun.

Reporting for WGRT – Jared Cerullo

The State Attorney General’s Office has found that the February fatal shooting of a man by a state trooper in Port Huron was justified, therefore no criminal charges filed against the trooper. 52 year old Mark Ryan was shot February 12, after troopers responded to a 911 call that Ryan was intoxicated and threatening to take his own life and asking for someone to shoot him. Ryan came out of the home with a pistol in his right hand, which turned out to be a BB gun, walked toward a trooper and raised the gun, prompting the trooper to fire three times, killing him.

Reporting for WGRT – Jared Cerullo