Mattawan News

Police searched the home in the 23000 block of Kinne Street at 2 p.m., finding methamphetamine paraphernalia, components used to make meth and 1/4 pound of marijuana inside the residence.

Two days after going before the Mattawan Board of Education to request a motion to reverse his dismissal as basketball coach, Dan Hoff submitted a letter of thanks to his players, supporters, family and community at large.

The Mattawan Board of Education denied a request during a closed meeting Monday to reverse the administration's decision to fire longtime boys varsity basketball coach Dan Hoff.

The Michigan Court of Appeals has overturned a Van Buren County man's 2012 felony theft conviction, ruling that the judge who presided over the case allowed the jury to hear inadmissible evidence about a prior conviction.

Mary Jo Cobb , a teacher at Mattawan Middle School , and Austin Langlinais, an eighth-grader at the school, have been named winners in the annual Michigan Letters about Literature contest.

A two-car crash in Muskegon has sent one to the hospital, according to Sgt. Scott Sinclair of the Muskegon Heights Police Department.

An email written by Portage school board member Tom Eddy three days before a public meeting at which the board was supposed to decide its finalists for the superintendent position.

Christensen said he is confident charges will be filed. Riccardo Parker, 27, of Kalamazoo, was shot and killed in the early morning hours of Feb.

Apples, cherries, blueberries and strawberries all had a chance to be hurt by temperatures that dipped into the 20s in some places early Monday morning.

Twenty-six people spoke in support of, and nobody spoke against, fired Mattawan High School boys varsity basketball coach Dan Hoff during Monday night's board of education meeting at the district's Center Building Conference Room.

The eighth annual Senior and Veterans Expo, organized by State Senator Tonya Schuitmaker, will be held today in Mattawan.

With six of seven precincts reporting, 73 percent of voters Tuesday approved renewing the 18-mill nonhomestead tax for Mattawan Consolidated School.

Prom kids in Muskegon and Mattawan, Mich., tried their hand at the viral craze Harlem Shake and a rendition of Gangnam Style .

If the cow bells, air horn and top-of-the-lung shouts from family members and friends were an indication, the audience members who assembled Sunday for Kalamazoo Valley Community College's 71st graduation ceremony were clearly a proud group.

For some of us, a college essay would be so much easier. But for candidates for the Wind Turbine Technician Academy, the chance to climb 100 feet in the air is a plus.

Mattawan students stopped by Chinn Chinn before heading to prom. From left: Courtney Wilton, Ainsley Strong, Ike LeRoy, Patrick McCaw, Paulina Yu and Julius Thorpe.

A tracking dog and police officers from several jurisdictions have been searching a Portage neighborhood off I-94 since 4:42 this morning, after a car fleeing authorities crashed at the Oakland Drive exit of I-94 and the driver took off on foot.

A tracking dog found the man accused of fleeing police to avoid a traffic stop on I-94, but authorities are not sure yet what prompted the man to try to take off in the first place, a Portage dispatcher said.

Speeds exceeded 100 mph on eastbound I-94 after a Mattawan officer chased a vehicle east on I-94 into Kalamazoo County.