Branch County News

Reviewing pseudoephedrine sales logs on-line from area stores paid off last night for Branch County Sheriff's Deputies who arrested 3 suspects on meth lab charges at a residence in Sherwood Township.

A young woman convicted three weeks ago of negligent homicide in the traffic accident deaths of a Coldwater couple on their motorcycles in the summer of 2010 was sentenced yesterday in Branch County Circuit Court.

A Detroit man was hospitalized after a one-vehicle rollover just after midnight in Branch County.

There will be a recount of last week's election in the Branch County Village of Union City, where the question asking for new tax to fund police operations and equipment resulted in a deadlock with 88 yes and 88 no votes.

The Chesaning Township Board of Trustees April 9 appointed Frances Kukulis as its new clerk to replace 16-year Township Clerk Sue Emmendorfer, who recently accepted a clerk position in Branch County's Coldwater.

A Marshall man accused of shooting his cousin to death this spring and dumping his body in a Branch County field is expected to be bound over to stand trial in Calhoun County Circuit Court, but the judge's decision in the case against 63-year-old Lauren O'Melay will have to wait at least until the end of next week.

Maurice Sendak didn't think of himself as a children's author, but as a writer who told... A motorist on M-96 outside Galesburg passes a sign on Tuesday opposing the Galesburg-Augusta Community Schools bond proposal.

It's the first Monday of the month and that means a handful of Townships in Branch County are holding trustee meetings tonight.

JONESVILLE, Mich. -- Cheryl Lynn Nichols, 55, of Jonesville Mich., went to be with the Lord on Thursday, May 3, 2012, at Borgess Medical Center, Kalamazoo.

More pregnant and nursing mothers and their infants in Branch County are now eligible to receive the supplemental food and nutrition program offered at the county health department.

An 8-month-old girl and a male driver were injured after a rollover accident in Barry County Wednesday afternoon.

COLDWATER A Litchfield area woman has been convicted on two counts of Negligent Homicide, after the car she was driving hit and caused the death of two Coldwater motorcyclists.

A Branch County Circuit Court trial is scheduled to begin today for a young Litchfield woman charged with negligent homicide in the traffic accident deaths a year and a half ago of a Coldwater couple.

Kellogg Community College's Branch County Community Chorus will present its annual "Spring Cabaret @ the Tibbits" event beginning at 7:30 p.m. May 5 at the Tibbits Opera House in Coldwater.

Authorities say at least 1,000 pigs died in a southern Michigan fire that destroyed two barns and damaged another.

About a thousand pigs perished in a weekend fire in Branch County's Bronson Township.