Paw Paw News

The Van Buren County Sheriff's Office Narcotics Unit searched a house in Paw Paw Wednesday afternoon and seized 2.8 pounds of processed marijuana.

A 53-year-old Paw Paw woman was arrested Wednesday afternoon after the Van Buren County Sheriff's Office Narcotics Unit found her selling medical marijuana and prescription drugs from her home at 215 N Dyckman St., according to a news release from the Van Buren County Sherifff's Office.

WOOD TV 8 is reporting that Parchment athletic director John Thompson had a 2007 driving under the influence charge dismissed.

Michael O'Neal Allman , 34, of Monroe Avenue, was sentenced to 60 days in jail, two years of probation, victim restitution and state fees for possession of methamphetamine in November in Comstock Township.

Matthew Cooper, a Paw Paw attorney, is running for judge of the 36th Circuit Court in Van Buren County , he announced this month.

A fading rainbow can be seen over a tree line in Van Buren County's Almena Township, looking west toward Paw Paw, as thunder rumbled this morning.

A Lawrence woman is facing charges after police say she left her five children unattended in a car while visiting her boyfriend at the Van Buren County Jail in Paw Paw.

An elderly woman and her daughter visiting a grave site in Chambers Cemetery near South Haven apparently aroused the territorial ire of a neighboring rooster, who approached the women in a threatening manner, stood his ground as they attempted to shoo him, and went for blood when they began to toss stones.

Village officials are turning to community members to decide what to do with a large plot of mostly vacant industrial buildings along the Paw Paw River.

The only thing missing at a public hearing Tuesday on the proposed 2012-13 Portage city budget was the public.

There will be single-lane closures on westbound I-94 from 7 a.m. Wednesday through 4 p.m. Thursday, May 17 in Van Buren County.

Multimillion-dollar tax requests will be decided today by voters in the Gull Lake, Galesburg-August, Allegan, Bangor and White Pigeon school districts.

A man assaulted a police officer and faces multiple charges after marijuana was found in his Van Buren County home on Friday.

Voters in six area school districts -- Kalamazoo, Allegan, Martin, Gobles, Paw Paw and Marcellus -- have tax requests on the May 8 ballot related to the 18-mill nonhomestead tax.

A 39-year-old Dowagiac man is facing multiple charges after he struggled with police and a deputy found bath salts in his possession during a traffic stop on Wednesday night.

Six people, including two small children, were injured in a crash on M-43 near 34th Avenue in Almena Township, police said.