Branch County looks for public defender
Branch County has signed a contract with Michigan Indigent Defense Commission. "The first 50 percent payment can be expected 15 days from the date the contracts are received by the State," said Branch...
View ArticleMeth sale sends Leyo to prison
Michael Leyo, Jr., 45, was sent to prison for 2 to 20 years for delivery of $40 worth of meth to a confidential informant in March of last year. This was Leyo’s first drug offense and his first felony...
View ArticleWATCH: Dash cam video shows Texas deputy rescued from floodwaters
Newly released dash camera video shows the moments when a Travis County sheriff’s deputy was rescued after she drove into high water while responding to an emergency call near Austin, Texas, in...
View ArticleKidnapping thwarted: Police say pair tried to take child across Lake Superior...
Pair lodged in Chippewa County Jail
View ArticleAccused kidnappers arraigned in district court; face multiple felonies
CHIPPEWA COUNTY — Bail was set at $1 million for Jon S. Stygler and denied for George S. Cunningham as both men were arraigned Thursday afternoon before Judge Eric Blubaugh of the 91st District...
View ArticleToth charged for reckless driving on US-12
Drivers from Fremont Road to Coldwater had some terrifying moments around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday as a large red semi truck and trailer flew down US12 clocked at more than 80 m.p.h.Zachery Toth, 33, now...
View ArticleSon claimed he was protecting father
Michael Vaughn, 17, said he was protecting his father when he pulled a gun on two men Sunday at their North Angola Road apartment house. Vaughn was arrested and is charged with assault with a weapon, a...
View ArticleMiller charged in Facebook feud
James Riley Miller, 24, of Coldwater, faces two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon (a car) after a Facebook feud reportedly went too far. Daniel Nutt and Cassie Bidwell told police they were...
View ArticleThorne sent back to prison for drugs
Monday, Kimberly Thorne, 23, received the maximum sentence, 16 months to two years in prison, after she pleaded guilty to possession of an analogue drug she put inside her body when she was arrested...
View ArticleVanWormer pleads to ethnic intimidation
James VanWormer II, 30, pleaded no contest to assault with a dangerous weapon, a sawed-off shotgun, and ethnic intimidation after he threatened an African-American neighbor Jan. 28 in Union...
View ArticleMedical marijuana grants shift to education
How the state is using some of the money collected for Medical Marijuana fees and licenses is changing.Medical Marijuana Oversight Grant funds that used to go to law enforcement are now going to health...
View ArticleBerry promises to move to Florida
Branch County Circuit Judge Bill O’Grady told Troy Berry, 42, "I can’t sentence you to Florida. But I wish you well when you decide to go."Berry was sentenced to a year in the Branch County Jail for...
View ArticleFlorida man tells jury he dismembered dad's body, fearing blame for death
WEST PALM BEACH — After spending the day golfing, drinking and doing drugs with his 74-year-old father, James "Jimmy" Scandirito II went outside for a smoke break on the night of March 28, 2018. His...
View ArticleTexas priest accused of groping woman in hospice during last rites, police say
A Roman Catholic priest in Austin, Texas, has been accused of groping a woman in hospice care while he performed a last rites ceremony in October.The Rev. Gerold Langsch, 75, has been charged with...
View ArticleLuck's luck runs out
Kristin Luck, 37, will faces charges of fleeing police in a high speed chase and resisting arrest after two January incidents in Coldwater. City police officers found Luck at the Marshall Street Shell...
View ArticleMeth found in purse during a traffic stop
Leonidas resident Melanie Cerny, 39, will face more trouble for avoiding court in Elkhart, Indiana. Cerny was a passenger in a car that was stopped by police in Bronson for a defective tail light.A...
View ArticleN.C. law: Woman can’t back out of sex once underway
Editor’s Note: This story was originally published June 22, 2017. An investigative collaboration of 11 news organizations led by Carolina Public Press and reporting on sexual assault convictions in...
View ArticleBates arrested for child care fraud
The Michigan Department of Human Services filed fraud charges against Coldwater daycare provider Debora Bates, 57, for fraud.According to information in the charges, Bates ran an inhome care center at...
View ArticleMother charged for accident injuring child
Rachel Riehl, 35, was arrested, facing a five-year felony charge of Operating Under the Influence of Alcohol Causing Serious Injury to one of her children.Riehl, of Sherwood Township, will also face...
View ArticleSex offender admits to removing tether
HILLSDALE — A convicted sex offender admitted to forcibly removing an electronic monitoring device and willfully disobeying state mandates for quarterly registration under the sex offender’s...
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