Semi-truck rollover on U.S. 127 closed highway for three-and-a-half hours
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and last updated 2021-06-30 23:08:59-04
LANSING, Mich. â The Lansing Township Police are looking for information regarding a traffic accident that closed off part of southbound U.S. 127 Wednesday morning.
A semi-tractor and trailer carrying pea gravel overturned on the westbound Interstate 496 ramp spilling its load across both lanes around 10:45 a.m.
Lansing police and the Michigan Department of Transportation closed the ramps to I-496 from U.S. 127 to clean up and conduct an investigation.
The driver of the semi-tractor sustained non-life-threatening injuries in the accident and was taken to Sparrow Hospital, according to a release from police.
Son, 20, charged with murder in death of his father in Lansing Twp. in March
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LANSING TWP. – A 20-year-old man has been charged in connection with the death of his father in March.
David Peter Velten was named in a murder warrant signed Wednesday in 55th District Court. He is charged with killing John Velten, 58, who was found dead April 9 in his home on West Michigan Avenue in Lansing Township.
Police went to the home to check on the elder Velten after friends and neighbors said they had not seen him for days.
The man died from blunt force trauma, and investigators believe he was struck on the head with a hammer, Lansing Township Police Chief John Joseph said.