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Lawmakers who want Michigan to no longer automatically try 17-year-olds as adults are pointing to its outlier status as among the reasons to pass bipartisan bills to “raise the age.” Michigan is among four states whose default is to treat 17-year-olds as adults in criminal proceedings. There is a growing consensus that 17-year-olds are better off in the juvenile justice …

Police say a northern Indiana pilot died after his small plane hit power lines and crashed in a farm field in northern Indiana. Elkhart County Sheriff Jeff Siegel says 55-year-old Neal Myers of Middlebury died in the crash Thursday night about 2 miles east of Goshen Municipal Airport. FAA spokesman Tony Molinaro told The Goshen News that Myers was practicing …

Michigan State Police and utilities are warning people high winds could cause power outages on Sunday. The National Weather Service says a high wind watch is in effect from Saturday night through Sunday night in southern and eastern Michigan including the Thumb region. It says sustained west winds of 30-40 mph with gusts as high as 60 mph are possible. …

A Michigan woman who wrote a letter to her family in 1974 has been reunited with the tattered note after it was finally delivered to the home where her family lived years ago. WOOD-TV reports that Mary Vaughan Brady of Grand Rapids received the letter Thursday. The man who now lives at the home, Evan Koons, found the worn and …

Three Rivers city officials plan to take up to two special meetings to discuss and set the municipality’s 2019-20 fiscal year budget. Mayor Tom Lowry and commissioners this week agreed to hold the meetings at 6 p.m. May 12 and 28, with a public hearing on the 12-month budget slated for 6 p.m. June 4.

Concerns have been expressed by some Sherman Township residents regarding a plan to reconstruct Wait Road. Slated to take place next year, the project will extend from North Centerville Road at the Sturgis city limits north to Wait Road. The reconstruction would continue east to the M-66 intersection for seven-tenths of a mile. The plan calls for widening Wait Road from …

White Pigeon Community Schools Board of Education members discussed a request from St. Joseph County Intermediate School District regarding a Career and Technical Education millage. The ISD is asking school districts countywide if they are in favor of putting on the ballot a request for no more than one mill to support CTE in St. Joseph County. White Pigeon school board …

Two southwestern Michigan residents face charges in northern Indiana in the death of a 10-year-old girl who died after ingesting methamphetamine. Prosecutors say the girl and her 9-year-old sibling were taken to an Elkhart home last June by her father, 34-year-old Brandon Hobbs, and his 30-year-old girlfriend, Erica Reschke. The girl died at the home. Toxicology tests revealed high levels …

Schoolcraft Police Chief Bryan Campbell has issued a media release regarding a missing person. Campbell said 38-year-old Kristy Ann Williams, also known as Kristy Bishop, has not been seen by friends or family members in the past month. Williams stands 5-foot-5 and weighs about 150 pounds. She has blond hair, blue eyes and was last seen at her residence in …

Cass County sheriff’s officials have released more information related to a weekend incident during which a 34-year-old man barricaded himself in a Mason Township residence. Deputies said detectives executed a search warrant Sunday in the 21000 block of Channel Parkway and four subjects were detained inside the residence. Arrested were a 40-year-old man and three females, ages 30, 29 and …