Paw Paw News

Joe Leduc's blueberry fields in Paw Paw are usually full of customers plucking berries off loaded bushes.

Births BRONSON METHODIST HOSPITAL James and Jennifer Brand, of Kalamazoo, a daughter.

Corey Stannard said he's never been so scared. At about 3 p.m. Thursday, he was driving west on I-94 toward Paw Paw and passing a slow-moving truck when a Hummer showed up in his rearview mirror.

A routine traffic stop in Decatur just before 2 a.m. Friday turned into the unexpected when a suspected drunk driver plowed into the back of a patrol car - when the deputy was standing by the cara s trunk.

Erin Brockovich is an environmental activist known around the world for getting results, and tonight her legal team was in Paw Paw to help people living in Van Buren County who have contaminated groundwater.

TODAY Vote on gay-rights ordinance The Kalamazoo City Commission is scheduled to vote on a controversial anti-discrimination ordinance extending protections to gays, lesbian, bisexual and transgender individuals.

A Reits flea market vendor could be in hot water after allegedly selling pirated DVD movies.

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich is scheduled to hold a meeting Monday evening at Paw Paw High School to talk to residents who are concerned about possible contamination caused by a Coca-Cola juice plant.

Crop damage caused by last weekend's storms is still being assessed, but the outlook isn't good for blueberries, sweet cherries and soybeans in some areas.

Emergency crews were responding to downed power lines, fires and fallen trees Friday night as more thunderstorms, heavy winds and hail swept across Southwest Michigan.

Fashion designer Liza Marie Nay, a student at Western Michigan University, wears one of her corsets and skirts that will be featured at her June 27 fashion show at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts.

The loss of transmission to two substations early Friday morning resulted in power outages for about 26-hundred Midwest Energy Cooperative customers in Van Buren County.

Preliminary discussions about closing South Haven's courthouse and consolidating court operations in Paw Paw is raising concerns in the lakeshore community.

The increase in gas prices at several stations in Southwest Michigan on Sunday was short-lived. On Sunday morning, there were seven stations in the area at $2.89.9 for regular, according to www.gasbuddy.com . On Monday morning, there were none.

Customers can get a free sausage biscuit or cheeseburger with any purchase at many McDonald's restaurants from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday as the chain plans to give Michigan a break that day.

Two Paw Paw men have been charged with several counts of breaking and entering and home invasion, according to the Van Buren County Sheriff's Office.

Michigan State Police have confirmed that one person was killed in an early morning fire in a mobile home in Gobles.

A 53-year-old Bangor woman was airlifted to Bronson Methodist Hospital after she reportedly hit her head on a boulder while riding a dirt bike Sunday evening, police said.

Justin Tapper, General Manager and Vice President of John Tapper Automotive in Paw Paw, is the third generation of Tappers to sell automobiles in Paw Paw since 1963.

An exhilarating experience is coming to South Lyon next month as the Drum Corps International presents Motor City Music Tune-Up presented by the South Lyon Band Parents and South Lyon East Band Parents.