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A popular tourist community in Michiana has opened its annual Christmas light display for the season. Shipshewana’s Lights of Joy, a drive-through experience featuring more than two million LED Christmas lights, opened over the weekend. Displayed in a newly expanded, mile-and-a-half-long symphony of various light scenes, Lights of Joy will re-open Friday and Saturday. After that, the lights will be …

Sturges-Young Center for the Arts has announced it will be closed for the remainder of 2020 due to COVID- 19 restrictions. With the temporary discontinuation of indoor dining, the center will be closed to minimize operational costs, and help to keep patrons and staff safe. The weekly Sunday brunch will return in January. Auditorium officials said the FOP “Country Music …

A man who was a teenager when he admitted killing three young women in 1972 has been granted parole by the Michigan Parole Board nearly a half-century after the slayings. The parole board notified the victims’ relatives that Brent Koster, 64, was granted parole on Nov. 10. The Kalamazoo area man will be released from prison on Jan. 21 after …

President Donald Trump did not ask Michigan Republican lawmakers to “break the law” or “interfere” with the election during a meeting at the White House, a legislative leader said Sunday, a day before canvassers plan to meet about whether to certify Joe Biden’s 154,000-vote victory in the battleground state. House Speaker Lee Chatfield was among seven GOP legislators who met with …

Michigan’s election agency on Friday recommended that the Nov. 3 results be certified next week by state canvassers, a decision that would bless Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump but likely not cool partisan strife over the vote. The recommendation was posted online with the formal Monday meeting notice of the Board of State Canvassers. The guidance came at …

President Donald Trump sought to leverage the power of the Oval Office on Friday in an extraordinary attempt to block President-elect Joe Biden’s victory, but his pleas to Michigan lawmakers to overturn the will of their constituents appeared to have left them unswayed. Trump summoned a delegation of the battleground state’s Republican leadership, including the Senate majority leader and House …

A judge on Friday declined to halt a three-week ban on indoor dining in Michigan that is one of the most recent coronavirus restrictions imposed by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration. The state health department, meanwhile, reported a new daily high of confirmed COVID-19 cases, 9,779, and 53 additional deaths as the virus continued to spike. In his ruling, U.S. District …

The boil water order has been lifted in Lockport Township.

White Pigeon Community Schools Superintendent Jon Keyer announced the district is suspending all in-person learning until Jan. 4. White Pigeon was originally going to virtual teaching until Dec. 8, as mandated Sunday for all state high schools by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. Administrators at White Pigeon, however, said the increasing number of community COVID-19 cases as …

Deputies from the St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Department are investigating a hit-and-run injury incident that occurred at 5:50 a.m. Wednesday in Nottawa Township. Investigators said the incident, which involved a pedestrian, occurred on Shimmel Road near Timm Road. Authorities said a pedestrian was walking south on Shimmel Road and was struck by a northbound pickup pulling a trailer. The pickup …