February 4, 2010 Rebecca Westerdale, 15, a sophomore art student from Ida High School, has won the statewide logo contest hosted by Michigan's Bicentennial Commission for the Commemoration of the War of 1812.

Though the sticky Goodyears aren't spinning much here, the Tiger has no problem getting loose.

Two men are in custody after they tried to break into Jericho Grocery near South Haven early Tuesday morning.

Two area men were arrested around 1 a.m. Tuesday, charged with stealing beer and other alcohol during a break-in of Jericho Grocery, 67916 M-43 in South Haven Township.

Four Van Buren County men are facing charges in connection to the beating of a Fennville man last month.

January 25, 2010, 10:00AM View full size Mark Bialek Kalamazoo Gazette File photo of Maggielynn, a beagle owned by Ken Gardner of Bangor stands on a table as fishermen try their luck on a warm day at Maple Lake in Paw Paw in March of 2006.

For decades, it pumped out pistons for Detroit's Big Three automakers. But after closing in 1996, the former Bohn Piston plant, at 220 Aylworth Ave., has sat mostly vacant, the exterior of the massive 240,000-square-foot facility showing the signs of lack of use.

OLD HOUSE EXPO AT FAIRGROUNDS: Demonstrations, products and information sessions on everything from repairing windows to replacing mortar will be featured at the Old House Expo from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Kalamazoo County Expo Center and Fairground, 2900 Lake St.

The South Haven City Council may ask its Planning Commission to look into some zoning ordinance amendments Monday night, so an organic waste ethanol plant can come to town.

There are those who say that killing a man and torching his body is a sign that someone isn't in their right mind, but does that mind know right from wrong? Psychiatric examinations were ordered this week for 23-year-old Alison Martin and 24-year-old Justin Terpstra, as a scheduled preliminary hearing for the engaged couple from Kalamazoo was ...

In this file photo, a motorist talks with a McDonald's Towing and Rescue driver on northbound U.S. 131 near D Avenue sfter sliding off the road.

A drop in temperatures combined with moist roads to create a greasy patch of black ice along I-196 near the M-6 interchange that led to nearly a dozen crashes -- including one involving an AMR ambulance.

Jay Gaston uses his snowblower to clear the sidewalk in front of his home on Superior street in South Haven after a storm dropped more than a foot of snow in two days.

SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. A recent winter storm hit South Haven hard, the city is still working to dig out and the snow is still falling.

SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. Unrelenting lake effect snow pounded the West Michigan lakeshore Monday, and it's not letting up.

An arctic cold front ushered in a several days heavy lake effect snow along the Lake Michigan shoreline.

Depending where you live it was a snowy new year in West Michigan. Several areas along the lakeshore got a fresh helping of lake effect snow and it won't stop anytime soon.

Hide Video Forecasters say occasionally heavy snow, stiff winds and frigid temperatures will greet Michiganians living near lakes Michigan and Superior as 2010 begins.

A man was killed early today in a house fire near downtown South Haven that investigators say was sparked by a space heater.

Authorities in Van Buren County have released more information about a fatal stabbing that occurred last week.