Niles News

Michigan State Police are hoping the public can help find out who stole $80,000 worth of aluminum from a semi Sunday night.

Posted 4 hours, 48 minutes ago at 12:42 pm. Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009 It may be mid-November, but the Christmas season is in full swing in southwest lower Michigan.

Families that run together, stay together. That's the hope, anyway, and the direction the Thanksgiving Day Run has taken in Niles.

Niles' Jacob Stanage and Jonathon Eddy were named to the Big 16 Conference All-West Division soccer team, which was announced this week.

Posted 6 hours, 25 minutes ago at 11:28 am. By JESSICA SIEFF Niles Daily Star After the state cut funding significantly to Michigan schools the futures of many of them, including that of the Niles Community Schools District remain up in the air.

Some bold thieves have made off with a truckload of aluminum. It happened Sunday night at the AACOA Aluminum plant in Niles.

A trio of Niles cross country runners earned Big 16 Conference All-West Division runners this season.

Posted 4 hours, 49 minutes ago at 12:03 pm. The Miss Niles Scholarship Organization will crown its 76th queen at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Niles High School Auditorium.A Fourteen contestants will vie for an opportunity to become Miss Niles 2010.

Greg Gunder's job is to turn the lights out at Niles Community Schools. Actually, any use of electricity that could be avoided to save money: scented plug-ins, digital clocks, pop machine lights, computer monitors you name it.

Children don't come with instruction books, but parents should know better than to lock a 12-year-old in her room and leave her alone in the house, Berrien County Trial Judge Scott Schofield told a Niles couple Monday.

Posted 34 minutes ago at 4:17 pm. Fall is in full swing and winter is creeping upon us, so get out and enjoy all of your parks, walking trails, events and outdoor activities in Berrien and Cass counties.

Posted 6 hours ago at 10:39 am. Nancy Fantetti sits inside the addition that was built onto her home in Edwardsburg in 2008.

Cooperating with state and federal agencies in drug cases involving other alleged dealers only went so far Friday for a Niles man.

Posted 6 hours, 52 minutes ago at 9:47 am. ALBION - The Britons wrapped up their 2009 campaign recently and under the direction of Coach Jerry Block, Albion won eight matches, including a 3-2 victory over Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association champion Calvin College on Oct.

At the edge of Jennifer Higbee's property, on Stafford road just off Pucker Street in Niles, stands a really big tree.

The attorney for an 81-year-old Roman Catholic priest who faces possible extradition to Ireland says the clergyman moved to the South Bend area in 1990 to take a job counseling drug and alcohol abusers.

For small business owners on main streets all across the county, the challenge to keep the doors open continue to mount.

The Michigan State Police Niles post is asking for the public's help in identifying a vehicle of interest in the vicinity of the Legends Bar & Grill fire Oct.

A gay couple said they have been banned from Walmart for life after a dispute arose involving BIC lighters.