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A Sturgis man faces four counts of felonious assault and additional charges after he allegedly pointed a handgun at his girlfriend’s ex-husband during a child-custody exchange. Sturgis police said officers were called at 7:30 p.m. Sunday to the 600 block of North Lakeview Street in response to a man with a gun. Officers were told the 43-year-old man was intoxicated …

Authorities say one person died and more than a dozen were injured after about 60 vehicles were involved in a series of crashes in snowy weather along Interstate 94 in southwestern Michigan. The Kalamazoo Gazette reports three people were critically injured and 11 others, including a Van Buren County sheriff’s deputy, had minor injuries following the crashes near Hartford about …

Miscommunication, coupled with a language barrier and post-Vietnam War issues, resulted in tense moments Thursday at a Mottville residence. Michigan State Police were called to a home on Thomas Street to check on the well-being of a woman. Troopers had been led to believe the woman was being held at the home against her will. She had communicated to a …

A Los Angeles man arrested in Colorado after an Amber Alert was issued out of Michigan for his two young daughters was charged Friday in the slayings of their mother and the woman’s father. Authorities are seeking to extradite Alex Perez, 24, back to Michigan where he is charged with two counts of first-degree murder, the Berrien County prosecutor’s office …

Authorities say a 13-year-old girl stabbed a boy in the neck with a pencil while they were on a school bus in Calhoun County. Battle Creek police responded Thursday afternoon to the stabbing, which took place after crude comments were being made toward the girl on the Battle Creek Public Schools bus. Police say the 12-year-old boy was treated for …

A Park Township resident was arrested Tuesday on a charge of animal cruelty. Sheriff’s officials said animal control supervisors Greg Musser and Josh Shook were called to the 19000 block of M-60 in response to a report of a puppy being left outside. Musser and Shook discovered the six-month-old animal had frozen to death. Deputies said a veterinarian later confirmed …

An Elkhart County woman suffered serious injuries this week after her vehicle crashed into a plow truck in Mottville Township. State police said Jessica Stouder, 21, of Middlebury, was driving on M-103 around 8:20 p.m. Monday when she lost control of her vehicle just north of the Indiana state line and it crashed into an oncoming Michigan Department of Transportation …

A Marcellus woman suffered minor injuries after she was involved in a one-vehicle crash this week. Sheriff Joe Underwood said deputies responded to Miller Rod, north of Dutch Settlement Road, around 11:30 a.m. Monday. Deputies reported that Tamara Heino, 31, was driving south on Miller Road when she ran off the roadway on the right side and into a row of …

The city of Sturgis remains under a citywide snow-removal emergency as a result of Tuesday’s snowfall. By ordinance, parking is prohibited on all city streets until streets have been cleared of snow between two successive street intersections, or if the city terminates the declaration with a public announcement.

A clerk at the Admiral gas station in Sturgis was robbed Monday morning. Sturgis police said the suspect entered the store, located at 1207 E. Chicago Road, during the early morning hours and displayed a handgun. The clerk complied with the man’s request for money from the store’s cash register. He left the scene in an unknown direction. The suspect …