Brooklyn News

Berkaw, Dawn S. and Ryan R., of Dewitt, a son, Logan Tate, born January 23, 6 pounds, 12 ounces at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing.

The Brooklyn Kiwanis Club will host its annual baby shower to benefit the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital on Feb.

Tom Knutson left, suggested to state Rep. Mike Shirkey, right, legislation to allow some live bait to be sold across state lines.

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to issue a permit for an injection well to dispose of oil-drilling byproducts a half-mile underground in Norvell Township.

Persistent and creative con men have defrauded an elderly Columbia Township woman of more than $40,000. The suspects repeatedly told the woman she had won $450,000 in a lottery and she needed to send them $500 to collect the winnings, township police Chief David Elwell wrote in a news release.

The city of Jackson would lose close to $1.2 million in annual revenues if personal property taxes are eliminated.

A building in downtown Brooklyn that was condemned and had an uncertain future will be home to a new business in the spring.