GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The first Black judge in the U.S. Western District of Michigan and one of the first federal judges of color, the Honorable Benjamin Gibson, has died. He was 89 years old.

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — The Hon. Benjamin F. Gibson, a retired U.S. District judge, and the first African-American judge to ever be appointed to the U.S. Western District of Michigan, has died. Gibson, ...

of lascivious acts with a child. She will be sentenced in March. A Webster County man is accused of having sex with a young teenager. 22-year-old Benjamin Gibson is charged with second- degree sexual ...