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Vicksburg Village Council members last month designated more than $500,000 of in-hand funds to support future needs. Village Manager Jim Mallery said the board’s designation of the funds means future councils will be able to use the money only for the purposes indicated through the resolution. This will keep village projects on track, make administrative and council changes more seamless, …

U.S. Sen. Gary Peters said with the new Congress beginning, he stands ready to hit the ground running, build on what he has helped accomplish over the past two years and continue to work in a bipartisan way to deliver for Michigan residents. Peters stated in a media release he is excited to have been appointed to the Senate Appropriations Committee. The …

The annual St. Joseph County Job Fair, traditionally held at Glen Oaks Community College, has been canceled for 2023. Event planners have contemplated the future of the event due to the decline in job-seeking participants. The job fair has long been co-hosted by Michigan Works, St. Joseph County Department of Health and Human Services, and Glen Oaks Community College. Glen …

A man who previously admitted killing two women in Pennsylvania pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing a Michigan woman who disappeared more than 17 years ago. Harold David Haulman III pleaded guilty in Calhoun County District Court to second-degree murder in the death of 21-year-old Ashley Marie Parlier, Prosecutor David Gilbert said. Parlier went missing from her Battle Creek home on …

A dog that has made an odds-defying recovery after being struck by a train was reunited with his sheriff’s department rescuers last week. Chester, now owned by Mendon residents George and Rita Phillip, was hit Oct. 7 while on a bridge over the Fawn River, just south of Featherstone Road in Constantine Township. By the time Sgt. Jeremiah Abnet and …

Converting Sturgis Hospital from a traditional facility to a rural emergency hospital is an ongoing process hoped to be achieved by spring. Sturgis Hospital board president Jeremy Gump updated Sturgis City Commission last week, going through the process of changing to the new rural emergency hospital model. The REH model took effect Jan. 1. Gump said that, while Sturgis Hospital …

A Sturgis man pleaded no contest Monday afternoon in St. Joseph County Circuit Court to charges in connection to the murder and mutilation of his girlfriend in 2019. The day before his trial was scheduled to start, Wade Allen, 39, of Sturgis, also pleaded no contest to the sexual assault of a fellow inmate. That incident occurred Oct. 7, 2020, …

An Edwardsburg man died over the weekend following a single-vehicle crash in Cass County’s Milton Township. Sheriff Richard Behnke said deputies were called at 1:15 a.m. Sunday to an area of U.S. 12, near Fir Road. Investigators said a vehicle driven by Gage Strawderman, 19, was heading east on U.S. 12 when it went off the road and struck several …

Area fire crews responded Sunday evening to a blaze that took the life of a man in Fabius Township. Sheriff Mark Lillywhite said deputies were made aware of the fire shortly after 8 o’clock in the 14000 block of Coon Hollow Road. Emergency crews said a 91-year-old Three Rivers man was pulled from the burning structure and pronounced dead at …

The U.S. Supreme Court last week fielded a 27-year-old deaf Michigan man’s claim that he should be allowed to sue Sturgis Public Schools for compensatory damages for failing to provide him an adequate education for more than a decade even though it later paid to provide him additional instruction as an adult. According to the Detroit Free Press, Miguel Luna …