Three Rivers Health is pleased to announce Otavio Pereira-Rodrigues, MD, will be joining our internal medicine specialty services beginning July 15. Dr. Rodrigues joins our staff as a board certified infectious disease specialist. He is a primary care provider certified in Internal Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of …

Mary K. (Parrish) Burmeister, age 88, of Colon, passed away on Saturday, June 30, 2018. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. July 21, 2018, at Colon Baptist Church. The family is being assisted by Schipper Funeral Home in Colon.

The Michigan Supreme Court has reinstated a first-degree murder conviction against a man who stabbed a woman 29 times in 2014. Christopher Oros killed Marie McMillan, but he claimed it wasn’t premeditated. The appeals court reduced the conviction to second-degree murder, saying there wasn’t enough evidence for the higher crime. The Supreme Court, however, says the Kalamazoo County verdict should …

The St. Joseph County Conservation District crew cleaned 3.4 miles (2.2 of Nottawa Creek and 1.2 of the St. Joseph River) Saturday. The crew went from Rawson’s King Mill Park to the M-66 bridge. Twenty two volunteers participated and gathered the following items from the waterways: 175 pounds of trash, three barrels, four shoes (none matching), a boat seat, toy air …

An Illinois woman was taken to Borgess Lee Memorial Hospital in Dowagiac Saturday following an incident on Dewey Lake in Cass County. The Cass County sheriff’s office said the woman, whose name was not given, is from Palos Heights, Ill. She was floating on a tube near the sand bar on Saturday evening when the family pet jumped in the lake and began …

The Cass County sheriff’s department is still investigating a single-vehicle accident that happened in Mason Township last Friday. The sheriff’s office said Sarah Miller, 26, of Elkhart, Ind., was southbound on George Smith Drive when her vehicle left the roadway and struck multiple vehicles. Miller was taken by Porter Ambulance to Elkhart General Hospital for minor injuries. Alcohol was a factor, authorities said.

A two-vehicle accident that occurred at M-40 and Dutch Settlement Road in Newberg Township last Friday is still being investigated. Authorities said a feed/grain delivery truck driven by Stanley Myers, 69, of Constantine, was northbound on M-40 when it was involved in an accident with a vehicle driven by Cheryl Dimmick, 61, of Portage. Dimmick and her three passengers — …

William Glenn Machan, age 76, of Sturgis, passed away early Monday morning, July 2, 2018, at his home. He was born Jan. 30, 1942, in Sturgis, a son of the late C. Glenn and Phyllis (French) Machan. Bill was a graduate of Sturgis High School with the class of 1960. Following graduation, he had been employed by Sturgis Electric Motor …

Fredrick E. Morey, 77, of Shipshewana, died Thursday, June 28, 2018, at his home, following a six-month illness. He was born Jan. 21, 1941, in Kalkaska, a son of Aryls and Olive (Beach) Morey. He lived his early life in Kalkaska, later moving to Sturgis, and the final 20 years in Shipshewana. He was employed at Owens Classic Trailers as …

One person was arrested as a result of a shooting incident in Vandalia last Friday. The Cass County sheriff’s office said a handful of people began arguing and two people shot at each other. No one was injured in the incident, but there was some property damage. One person was arrested after the incident, the other suspect fled the scene and …