Paw Paw News

Several area communities will get federal transportation money for uses ranging from rebuilding roads to purchasing buses.

Before you go to bed tonight you'll probably brush your teeth or maybe even get a glass of water.

Police arrested a man in a stolen vehicle following a high-speed chase that started in Van Buren County over the weekend.

Kevin's A Tavern on the River, an upscale restaurant at 706 S. Kalamazoo St. that shared an address with Warner Vineyards, has closed.

The Paw Paw District Library Board is looking into building a larger library. Officials say the library, at 609 W. Michigan Ave.

Some more H1N1 vaccine clinics have been scheduled in Van Buren County. The Van Buren-Cass District Health Department says that they'll be offering the vaccines for free on Friday, November 20th, from five-30 to eight PM, at the Michigan Avenue Academy in Paw Paw...and from five to eight PM on Tuesday, November 24th, at Sam Adams Elementary School ...

Five people, including three from the Battle Creek area, with varying levels of experience and differing goals are to be interviewed for the top police spot in Emmett Township.

Three people were arrested as part of a meth bust in Van Buren County this week.

Kent County authorities have determined that a Paw Paw police officer was -not- partly to blame for the death of a Decatur man in a car crash this fall.

PAW PAW, Mich. In Van Buren County, a woman is suffering from serious injuries after being hit by at least two cars.

Van Buren County Sheriff's Narcotics Unit detectives, acting on a citizena s tip, uncovered a meth lab Monday evening in a barn loft in the 200 block of South Gremps Street in Paw Paw.

Attorney General Mike Cox today announced a major break in a decade-old cold case murder investigation resulting in the arrests of four individuals accused of brutally beating and running over Deborah Boothby of Covert Township.

Zingerman's Creamery, in Ann Arbor, has made a gelato out of a seldom-used U.S. fruit - the pawpaw .

Allegan County already has more requests for Recovery Zone money than it has available.

Two men are facing charges in the burglary of a Van Buren County business. Sheriffs Department Detective Lieutenant Brian Stump says that in the early morning hours of October 27th, deputies responded to an alarm at Kruizenga Archery, on M-43 in Almena Township, to find the place had been robbed: Listen: Five compound hunting bows and three cross ...

Paw Paw -- Inmates at the Van Buren County Jail haven't always used its pay phone or visiting hours to speak with friends and family.

A new law takes effect in early December making it illegal to give a shout-out to an inmate at the Van Buren County Jail.

Carroll Fisher does not regularly use marijuana. But he'd like to. The retired 67-year-old Niles factory worker has never smoked a joint - except for trying one in his 20s - until July.

The federal stimulus package might have saved thousands of teaching jobs, but many thousands more remain in jeopardy -- as well as virtual-school programs, higher-education funding, and other school initiatives -- as a result of lingering budget crises in states from coast to coast.

A state court administrator has ordered Van Buren County District Court to distribute its cases between the South Haven and Paw Paw courthouses based on a lottery rather than on where the involved parties live.