The U.S. Small Business Administration is working with the state police and local emergency managers to conduct damage assessments following flooding last month in Michigan. The survey is taking place in eight Lower Peninsula counties after Gov. Rick Snyder recently requested the assessments so people could be eligible for more aid. If approved, the SBA disaster assistance program would make …

The Kalamazoo Wings (30-26-4-2)have been struggling as of late, but luck was on their side during Saturday nights 37th Annual Green Ice Game at Wings Event Center. The Cincinnati Cyclones (35-24-2-0) were in town for the festivities and so was a standing room only crowd of 5,279 festive K-Wings fans. The Cyclones scored early in the first period to take …

Michigan shipwreck hunters have found the remains of a schooner that sank in Lake Michigan in 1873 during a storm. The Lizzie Throop was found in 280 feet of water along western Michigan’s coastline some 15 miles northwest of the city of South Haven, the Michigan Shipwreck Research Association announced this past week. The vessel set sail from Muskegon on …

Daniel Lee Davis, age 68, of White Pigeon, passed away on Saturday, March 17, 2018 at Kairos Dwelling in Kalamazoo. He was born in Napoleon, OH on June 11, 1949, a son of Normal and Beulah (Durham) Davis. Dan graduated from Napoleon High School  in 1967. On November 18, 1988, he married Vicki Reiff in Napannee. Dan worked at Shadow …

Charles E. Hemminger, age 70, of Three Rivers, formerly of Burr Oak and Allegan County, passed away on Saturday, March 17, 2018 at Heartland Health Care Center in Three Rivers. Chuck was born in South Bend on October 25, 1947, a son of Alfred and Dorothy (Dittman) Hemminger. He attended Plainwell Public Schools. In June of 1989, he married Sally …

A woman says her 13-year-old son had red marks and bruises on his neck after being choked by a substitute teacher at a Kalamazoo school. Mona Thompson tells WWMT-TV her son was asked to leave the classroom Tuesday at Kalamazoo’s Milwood Magnet School after another student threw a tennis ball at the teacher. She says the teacher grabbed the 8th grader by …

A southwestern Michigan man who authorities say walked into a police department and confessed to killing his girlfriend has been convicted. Berrien County Trial Court says 52-year-old James Parker Huffman of Niles was convicted Thursday of first-degree murder. He faces a mandatory term of life in prison without the possibility of parole at his sentencing, which is scheduled for April …

James W. Rodman, age 85, of Sturgis, passed away late Thursday evening, March 15, 2018, at Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo. He was born Sept. 14, 1932, in Marion, Ind., son of the late Earl and Lillian (Piner) Rodman. James resided in Sturgis since 1980 coming from Florida. On May 9, 1964, he married Sandra Sue Bright in Jonesboro, Ind. …

Robert W. Kramer, 81, of White Pigeon, died Saturday, March 10, 2018, at his home. He was born July 24, 1936, in White Pigeon, the son of Claude and Vera (Stanner) Kramer. He was a White Pigeon resident all his life and a White Pigeon High School graduate. He retired from the White Pigeon Paper Mill after 50 years. He …

Kenneth J. “Joe” Rowe, 61, of Dowagiac, passed away on Tuesday, March 13, 2018, at his home. A Celebration of Life Service will be held at 12 p.m. on Saturday, March 17, 2018, at Clark Chapel, 405 Center St., Dowagiac. Burial will follow at Indian Lake Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service from 11 a.m. to …