President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer urged Michigan Republican activists on Wednesday to pressure, even threaten, the GOP-controlled Legislature to “step up” and award the state’s 16 electoral votes to Trump despite Democrat Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote victory. Rudy Giuliani made baseless claims of “massive fraud, all over the country,” before testifying to a Republican-led legislative committee. Just a day before, Attorney …

Steven Lee Miller, age 71, a lifelong Sturgis resident, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020 at his home. He was born July 21, 1949 in Sturgis, a son to the late Howard and Jenny (Fox) Miller. Steven had been employed with Abbot Laboratories in Sturgis for over 38 years. He enjoyed golfing, fishing, hunting, bowling, and darts. Surviving are one …

Mark R. Babb, age 60, of Sturgis, died peacefully on Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo. He was born in Wilmington, Ohio on January 29, 1960 to the late Robert and Betty (Rose) Babb. His early life was spent in Wilmington where he graduated from Wilmington High School with the class of 1978. He furthered his …

Carolyn A. Gruber, age 88, of Sturgis, passed away Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, at Gardens of Fountains at Bronson Place in Kalamazoo. Arrangements will be announced by Hackman Family Funeral Homes of Sturgis

Judith K. Randall, age 80, of Sturgis, passed away Sunday, Nov. 30, 2020, at Ascension Borgess Hospital in Kalamazoo. She was born Nov. 23, 1940, in Kendallville, a daughter of the late George and Hutoka Prentice. Judy was a graduate of Sturgis High School with the class of 1959. On May 26, 1963, she married Jerry L. Randall in Sturgis. …

Authorities are looking for someone who boldly climbed to the top of a Mackinac Bridge tower, took pictures and later posted them on social media. The incident apparently occurred in early November. Alarms were triggered hours apart, but no one was caught, the Mackinac Bridge Authority said Wednesday. The agency’s executive secretary, Kim Nowack, called it “inexcusably reckless.” “It is …

A top Michigan health official said Tuesday she was cautiously optimistic that more residents took steps to combat the surging coronavirus last month, citing declining case rates, but warned that the spread remains significant and the effect of Thanksgiving will not be known for two to three weeks. Joneigh Khaldun, the state’s chief medical executive and an adviser to Gov. …

A Michigan couple who was married for nearly 50 years died seconds apart from the coronavirus. The couple died Nov. 24 in Henry Ford Allegiance Hospital in Jackson. Leslie and Patricia McWaters spent a week at the hospital after getting sick with COVID-19. “The time on both of their death certificates is 4:23 p.m., because (the difference) was too close …

Gerald “Gary” Rodney Vedmore, age 73, of Three Rivers, passed away peacefully on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2020 at Rose Arbor Hospice Facility in Kalamazoo. He was born on Feb. 8, 1947 in Vicksburg, the son of the late Clarence Willard and Josephine Marie (Hotchkiss) Vedmore. On Oct. 15, 1965 Gary married the love of his life Janie (Manwarren) Vedmore. Together …

Ruth Margaret Bowman, age 99, of Fulton, passed away Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at The Oaks at NorthPointe Woods in Battle Creek. Ruth (Becker) Bowman was October 22, 1921, to Rudolph and Anna (Becker) Brandenburg in Sturgis. She graduated from Sturgis High School in 1939. Ruth and Albert L. Bowman married May 5, 1940 at her parents’ home. She resided …