Kalamazoo County News

Wanted: In Kalamazoo County for operating/maintaining a methamphetamine lab and for failing to comply with reporting duties for the Michigan Sex Offender Registry.

Kalamazoo, Portage and many other communities in Southwest Michigan will be holding their traditional Memorial Day parades and ceremonies this morning.

A handgun reported stolen in Portage and a "large amount of marijuana" were recovered early Monday after a traffic stop in Kalamazoo's Edison neighborhood that was prompted by a loud car stereo, police said.

Following the end of the filing deadline, I have updated several articles. 2012 Kalamazoo Primary Election Preview 2012 Michigan Congressional Races I also added a special article on the Kalamazoo County Commission.

By the looks of the blackened headstones - some sinking in the soil - one may have assumed that the 500 World War II veterans buried in the Kalamazoo Riverside Cemetery had been forgotten.

Located in the sparsely populated flatlands north of the Indiana East-West Toll Road, the store on U.S. 131 sits right on the Michigan-Indiana border.

Dannie Helgeson, 53, pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal sexual conduct, Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeff Fink said.

The Coldwater Parade begins 8:30 a.m. on Monday, on the corner of Hudson and East Chicago streets.

A 20-year-old Galesburg man was killed Thursday when he was struck by a car as he walked along Michigan Avenue, according to a news release from the Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office.

Van Buren County Circuit Judge Paul E. Hamre recalled how he got a phone call 20-some years ago when he was a private practice attorney, asking if he would help an attorney new to defense work.

Kalamazoo police are seeking a man who shot at a vehicle in Comstock Township Wednesday night.

Seasonal work helped push down unemployment rates across the state. Barb Lettow, of Napp's Greenhouses, of 3118 N. Westnedge Ave., fills planters with wave petunias, elephant ears and other flowers Wednesday at the Arcadia Creek Festival Place in downtown Kalamazoo.

In the days after her husband punched and kicked her so hard that she was left with a fractured skull and placed in an induced coma, Rhonda Todd told Kalamazoo Public Safety detectives that she had endured similar beatings at least 50 other times during the couple's 10-year marriage.

Betty Merrow, 79, of Eaton Rapids waves American flags wildly while singing out cheers outside for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney before he speaks in May.

I am writing on behalf of the online travel industry in response to an article "Travel websites like Orbitz, Expedia may be sued by Kalamazoo County over allegedly not paying full hotel tax" . For the record, multiple state and federal courts have addressed claims that online travel companies collect and pocket tax money or convert tax funds, and ... (more)

If State House Speaker Jase Bolger, Rep. Margaret O'Brien and Sen. Tonya Schuitmaker do not want to sign a proclamation honoring a member of the community, so be it.

Kalamazoo County just got a whole lot of new information related to elections: all 113 voting precincts are now online as maps.

Plainwell student remembered: Patrick McCormick, a Plainwell High School graduating senior who died in a motorcycle crash Tuesday , is remembered as a quiet, hard-working student with mechanical problem-solving skills.

When he met his friend, Cortez Howard, outside his apartment last month, Jerrad Boothe didn't know the man Howard brought with him, but had no reason to fear him.

A suspect in a Bangor Township armed robbery was found in Kalamazoo Wednesday. Police took the man into custody after finding him with the suspect vehicle, a gray Dodge Caravan, at the Kentucky Fried Chicken on West Main Street in Kalamazoo at around 3 p.m. The man is a suspect in an armed robbery of a residence in Bangor Township yesterday, ... (more)