Allegan County News

An Allegan County deputy had to use a Taser to apprehend a drunk driver in the city of Fennville.

The following is a sample of incidents to which officers responded, provided by the Allegan County Sheriff's Office .

Police arrested a man early Sunday on suspicion of drunken driving and an immigration violation after police stopped a car, prompting the driver to flee on foot and leave small children behind.

Police suspect burglars tried to lighten the load for the S.S. Keewatin before it began its departure this morning for Ontario.

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Rick Snyder answers reporters' questions about the consent agreement between the state and Detroit during a news conference Thursday, April 5, 2012, in Detroit.

MDOT defends the state's expensive electronic highway traffic signs that are springing up along more and more freeways across West Michigan.

Four more animals from the herd of western mustangs brought to Michigan in a failed adoption event the winter before last are bound for Calfornia, according to the horse rescue group sending them there.

An 18-year-old man was hospitalized in critical condition early Friday after a single-vehicle crash that sent his vehicle "vaulting" over a river, authorities said.

Mayor George Heartwell, who was chided by MLive readers for calling Planned Parenthood opponents "forces of darkness" earlier this month, delivered the commencement address last Sunday at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.

Graduation ceremonies will go on as scheduled at Plainwell High School tonight, although a pall was cast over that southeast Allegan County community on Tuesday when word that 17-year-old senior Patrick McCormick had died in a motorcycle accident.

Tyler Ax, a student at Allegan High School, was among 26 recipients of the Michigan Breaking Traditions Award from the Michigan Department of Education's Office of Career and Technical Education.

An autopsy shows that the death of an Allegan County Sheriff's Department sergeant was caused by the E. coli bacteria.

Police responded Tuesday morning to a suspicious situation in the 3800-block of Kalamazoo Avenue after a caller reported a vehicle, occupied by two men, had backed into the driveway.

A 45-year-old Allegan County sheriff's sergeant who died in April of a sudden illness had an infection related to E. coli bacteria, a forensic pathologist said.

Allegan County Sheriff Blaine Koops honored the recipients of the Sheriff's Office annual awards at a ceremony on May 17 at the Griswold Auditorium.

Michael Awrey, the driver who allegedly hit the back of a motorcycle south of Wayland and then fled the scene, now faces five felony charges.

The woman killed in a Friday night hit-and-run in Allegan County was the executive assistant to the Grand Rapids Public Library director.

A 57-year-old Martin man spent the weekend in the Allegan County Jail, awaiting arraignment today on charges stemming from a Friday night hit-and-run crash that killed a passenger on a motorcycle.

A 57-year-old Martin man is expected to be arraigned today on charges connected with a Friday night hit-and-run that left a Shelbyville woman dead and injured a man, also from Shelbyville.