Around the State

FLINT, Mich. — A Flint man has been sentenced to 18 to 27 years in prison in the 1995 slayings of two Grand Blanc men in a drug-related robbery.

Corey Frazier pleaded no contest in December to second-degree murder. He’ll get credit for more than a decade of time already served.

Frazier will be eligible for parole in about eight years.

Frazier was convicted in 1996, but it was thrown out in 2003 because of ineffective legal counsel.

ADRIAN, Mich. — Authorities say a man drank two bottles of wine, then cut through a snowstorm on his lawnmower, riding down the center of the street to reach the liquor store.

Adrian police say they found 49-year-old Frank Kozumplik homeward bound on a John Deere tractor Saturday night, toting four bottles of wine in a paper bag.

He told officers his wife had taken their car to work, and the mower was the only way he could reach the store two miles from his home.

Police said Kozumplik’s blood alcohol level was 2 1â„2 times Michigan’s legal limit of 0.08 percent. They arrested him on a drunken driving charge and confiscated the mower.

—The Associated Press