Watervliet News

He was preparing for a potential emergency situation when a freak accident took his life.

Watervliet Township -- An experienced installer of ham radio equipment has died after a 60-foot-high radio tower he was scaling during an antenna-installation competition collapsed beneath him.

Here are vital statistics for Wednesday, June 24, 2009: Deaths Overia Brewer, 79, of Kalamazoo .

Something went wrong between a 60 year old Watervliet man and his girlfriend. Now he's in Van Buren County Jail on charges of home invasion.

A section of I-94 is closed and 10 people are in the hospital after a single-car accident this morning.

A new member of the Berrien County Road Commission has been asked to resign because he has missed too many meetings.

Authorities say a southwestern Michigan man has been struck and killed by a freight train as he sat on the tracks in Berrien County's Hagar Township.

A Coloma couple injured in a weekend motorcycle crash were released from a hospital.

A West Michigan family is devastated after their five-year-old son went in for a fairly routine procedure, and a week later, wound up dead.

A 5-year-old southwestern Michigan boy has died from medical complications following a tonsillectomy.

PAW PAW a ' Van Buren County deputies searched for the driver and a passenger of a vehicle involved in an injury accident early Sunday morning in Keeler Township.

Berrien County commissioners this week accepted a grant from the state to remove two dams on the Paw Paw River in Watervliet.

Police have arrested a sex offender wanted since December for fleeing parole supervision.

A new committee will look at ways of restoring Paw Paw Lake. The joint committee between Watervliet Charter Township and Coloma Township will include two members from each government's boards and two supporters of the lake restoration initiative.

How would you like State Representative John Proos to serve you lunch? Well... for the students at Watervliet South Elementary School that's exactly what happened.

NextGen Energy has until March 30th to get its act together. The company behind an ethanol plant proposal in the Red Arrow Industrial Park says it can't get funding.

The Berrien County Sheriff's Department Crime Prevention Unit is warning about a new scam that targets elderly residents.

The Berrien County Sheriff's Department is warning you about some scammers that are making the rounds in the area.

Six passengers, five of them children, were injured after the minivan in which they were riding rolled over early Saturday on Interstate 94, police said.

A rollover crash on Interstate 94 in Van Buren County sent three people to the hospital Sunday afternoon.