Reckless trucker sentenced
Zachery Toth, 33, will serve two years probation and 60 days jail after taking a semi and driving recklessly on US-12 March 13.Branch County District Court Judge Brent Weigle ordered Toth to undergo a...
View ArticleTexas sheriff’s commander reprimanded over comment about sex with 'Live PD'...
A Texas sheriff has orally reprimanded a member of his command staff for a sexual comment he made about a producer for the show “Live PD.”Cmdr. Steve Deaton was the subject of a complaint this month by...
View ArticleIllinois mobile home fire that killed five was intentionally set, authorities...
A mobile home fire that killed five people earlier this month near Goodfield, Ill., was started intentionally, authorities said.The deaths are considered homicides. An unidentified juvenile is being...
View ArticleWoman who served as the face of campaigns against drunken driving dies at 40
Jacqueline Saburido, who became the face of campaigns against drunken driving after she was severely burned in a wreck 20 years ago, died Saturday of cancer in Guatemala, according to her family.She...
View ArticleMiller sentenced in narcotics case
HILLSDALE — A Montgomery man charged with narcotics violations earlier this year appeared in the Hillsdale County Circuit Court Monday morning for sentencing.Theron James Miller, 30, pleaded guilty to...
View ArticleColdwater Father charged for injuring baby
Jeffrey Ledford, 20, will faces life in prison for the felony charge of first-degree child abuse after allegedly striking his five-week-old son in the head March 25 causing serious head...
View ArticleBohne shows up for trial high on meth
The judge, jury, prosecutor and defense attorney J.R. Colbeck were ready Tuesday. But Carmon Bohne, 26, was not ready for trial on charges of assault with a wood splitting maul. Colbeck told Branch...
View ArticleBranch County Commission fearful of state raising juvenile age
The Michigan legislature is prepared to raise the age of adulthood from 17 to 18. With a bill already passed in the House, the Senate passed a similar bill unanimously Wednesday.That is cause for...
View ArticleHeroin found during investigation
An investigation of possible fraud ended with Joseph Chebli, 30, charged with possession of heroin, an eight-year felony because of a prior drug conviction three years ago in Oakland County.Union City...
View ArticleWoman charged for damage to apartment
Abigail Duffy, 34, will face charges of resisting arrest and malicious destruction of property after causing over $3,000 damage to her Sauk River apartment Wednesday.Coldwater Police was called after...
View Article2 charged with beating disabled Mass. man after allegedly threatening to eat...
Two Massachusetts men are being held without bail after a 57-year-old disabled man alleged they threatened to eat his dog while he was on a walk with his wife Wednesday afternoon, then beat him with...
View ArticleBranch County prosecutor introduces new assistants
Valerie White, appointed Branch County Prosecutor in February opened her offices doors Friday to introduce her two new assistants to the public.This was the first chance for many in the criminal...
View ArticleMan sentenced for ethnic intimidation
James Vanwormer II, 30, will be on probation for two years after she spends 10 months in jail.He pleaded no contest to assault with a dangerous weapon, a sawed-off shotgun, and ethnic intimidation...
View ArticleSuspected drug dealer arrested again
Suspected local heroin supplier Donta Scott, 30, of Battle Creek, was arrested for delivery of fentanyl to a Coldwater Police confidential informant Feb. 3.Because of prior drug delivery convictions...
View ArticleFlorida man fined $30,000 for tall grass. Now the city is foreclosing on his...
Letting your grass grow too high might cost you — or at least it did for one Florida man.The city of Dunedin’s Code Enforcement Board moved to foreclose the home of Jim Ficken, 69, Tuesday after he...
View ArticleCalifornia woman who tried to flush newborn baby gets probation
A California woman who authorities say tried to flush her newborn baby down a toilet in a McDonald's bathroom will serve no jail time.TV station KFDM reports that Sarah Lockner was on the clock,...
View ArticleVideo camera caught caretaker striking patient at Texas dementia facility,...
A video camera captured a caretaker assaulting a patient at a facility in Georgetown, Texas, for people with Alzheimer’s disease, according to an arrest affidavit.Nicholas Francis, 29, of Killeen,...
View ArticleCox sentenced to prison for BB gun spree
Rickey Dale Cox II, 44, will serve 23 months to five years prison after he pleaded no contest to two of the more than a dozen cases in which he was accused of shooting out windows with a BB gun during...
View ArticleGreat-grandma arrested at Disney for CBD oil to sue Disney
The 69-year-old great-grandmother who was arrested for carrying CBD oil while visiting Disney World last month has planned to sue both Disney and the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, Orlando TV station...
View ArticleHanna held without bond for armed robbery
James Hanna, 54, was arrested on charges of armed robbery, a life felony, Monday evening after an incident on South Jefferson Street in Coldwater. He was held without bond. A woman said Treat...
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