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St. Joseph County prosecutors have asked a judge to detain 53-year-old Chad Bean until his bond hearing because he's a threat to his victims and the community, after a 2001 kidnapping and confinement conviction in which he used his baby as a shield as a police K-9 tried to bring him down.

The co-leader of a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been sentenced to 16 years in prison. Adam Fox returned to federal court Tuesday, four months after he and Barry Croft Jr. were convicted of conspiracy charges at a second trial in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Bloomington police say a former Indiana University football player assaulted, kidnapped and robbed a man he met on the dating app Grindr.

The verdicts on the charges against Adam Fox, Barry Croft Jr., Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta were read Friday at the federal court in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Harris and Caserta were acquitted, while the judge declared a mistrial for the others.

The jury decided to start fresh next week rather than begin discussing the case Friday afternoon.

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Among the protesters who rallied at the Michigan Capitol against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's coronavirus lockdown this past spring were…