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A Marcellus man was injured when the bicycle on which he was riding was struck by a car last week in Cass County. Sheriff Richard Benhke said 82-year-old James Shannon was riding his bicycle south on M-40 near Brody Street in Marcellus Township when it was struck by a southbound car driven by Cody Bresmen, 26, of Dowagiac. Shannon was …

St. Joseph County Undersheriff Mark Lillywhite said the county jail was either at or above capacity for most of 2018. During Wednesday’s executive committee meeting, Lillywhite provided details from the agency’s annual report. He told county commissioners that the jail averaged 172 inmates a month for a minimum stay of one day or more last year. Lillywhite said the jail …

Centreville Public Schools Board of Education has voted to pay two invoices totaling $34,500 from Landscape Design Services. The Holland-based company conducted drainage work at the high school’s baseball field. Board members Jackie Bowen and Larry Walton, however, dissented. They said they have concerns about the quality of the work performed by Landscape Design Services. Superintendent Stephanie Lemmer said the …

A team of St. Joseph County officials was led earlier this week on a building tour of what will eventually be the new headquarters for the Commission On Aging. Rivers Enrichment Center and Residence, the still-under-construction redevelopment of the former Three Rivers Inn received high praise from the team that included county commissioners, administrator Teresa Doehring and clerk Lindsay Oswald. …

A semi tractor-trailer overturned Monday at the intersection of M-40 and M-60 in the Cass County community of Jones. Sheriff Richard Behnke said deputies responded to the incident and found the rig, driven by 35-year-old James Bradtke – whose community of residence was not listed in a department media release – had overturned onto M-40. As a result, an excessive …

Michigan State Police troopers are investigating a felonious assault that occurred Tuesday in the 51000 block of Lang Road in Park Township. According to a department media release, troopers were dispatched to a report of a suicidal subject who was threatening to kill law-enforcement officials. As troopers arrived on scene, the suspect displayed a long gun out the second-floor window …

Alcohol was a factor in a fatal accident in which a horse-drawn buggy was struck from behind by a pickup last week in Branch County’s Algansee Township. Michigan State Police Sgt. Seth Reed said the driver of the pickup, 21-year-old Tyler Frye, of Angola, was charged with three counts of operating while intoxicated causing death, two counts of operating while …

A 28-year-old man was injured after he fell out of the bed of a moving pickup last weekend in Cass County’s Newberg Township. Sheriff Richard Behnke said deputies were called at 4 a.m. Sunday to Hoffman Street, near Kirk Lake Road. He said 21-year-old Marcellus resident Santanna Mosher was driving southbound on Cox Road and proceeded through a curve onto …

A 31-year-old Berrien Springs man was arrested Friday after fleeing from police, authorities said. Around 4:30 p.m., White Pigeon officer Matt Hanson attempted to stop a motorcycle near U.S. 12 and South Elkhart Street for a traffic violation. However, the driver fled and attempted to elude as he continued on Stears and Dickenson roads, then onto a railroad bed near …

A Three Rivers woman, 51-year-old Misty Barnes, was injured in a single-vehicle accident last week in Cass County’s Newburg Township. Sheriff Richard Behnke said deputies were called at 4:45 a.m. Sunday to Savage Road, near Born Street. Barnes was driving north on Savage Road, when a deer ran out in front of her vehicle. Barnes told authorities she swerved to …