Mason County News

A Muskegon woman charged with embezzling thousands of dollars from a Mason County business rejected a plea last week and is now scheduled for a February trial.

Hide Video The Catholic priest who sexually assaulted a man in a store will spend time in jail.

A Catholic priest who served churches in West Michigan has been sentenced to six months in jail for sexual misconduct.

The Rev. Johnson Jeyabel Pappusamy, former pastor of St. Mary Catholic Church in Custer and St.

The woman who worked for the state Department of Human Services charged in connection with a welfare fraud case was sentenced Tuesday in Mason County's 51st Circuit Court.

Hide Video A Northern Michigan woman who committed welfare fraud will spend a month in jail.

Mason County commissioners voted Tuesday to approve a settlement with Martin Schilling for $7,500. In a civil suit filed in federal court in May, Schilling sought $200,000 and attorney fees for two counts of unreasonable seizure, one count of false arrest and exemplary damages.

'We're celebrating all of you, and we're celebrating our new Women's Imaging Center,' MaryLou Earnshaw told donors assembled for a reception in honor of Memorial Medical Center of West Michigan's new Women's Imaging Center.

A new program is giving those in need a warm meal and a place to stay in Mason County.

A Fountain man was charged for allegedly possessing narcotics at the Mason County Jail Oct.

The Lake Michigan Tour, an 1100-mile designated scenic route that spans four states, begins "officially" at Ludington, halfway up the western edge of Michigan.

Mason-Oceana 911's board of directors will have to take a harder look at the budget to make ends meet after voters in both counties defeated a proposal for an increase on the 911 surcharge.

During the last 10 years Annie Hsueh has worked almost every day at her business, Hunan Gardens, and almost every day - at least in the summer - she sees an ambulance go by with lights and sirens on, she says.

Cap and trade legislation being considered in Congress, in effect, is a tax that could cost American families as much as $1,700 a year, lead to the export of jobs, reduce the gross domestic product and do little or nothing to affect climate change.

The former 35th District State Senator for Mason County when the district strung along U.S. 10 to Midland, also is former Director of Agriculture for the State of Michigan, former Congressman for the Midland area and a former state appeals court judge -- his most recent elected gig.

A deputy from the Mason County Sheriff's Office received minor injuries after being involved in a traffic accident while on duty Monday night.

Jobless rates rose only slightly between August and September for Mason, Manistee, Oceana and Lake counties but are much higher than they were a year ago.

Drew and Martha Moore have a red plastic bin for their belongings. It contains a few T-shirts and pairs of pants for each of them, and Drew has a quilted shirt, a jacket of sorts.

A Catholic priest removed from two Mason County parishes earlier this year amid allegations of sexual misconduct at a Meijer store has pleaded guilty to a sex assault charge.

Time is precious when a person with Alzheimer's disease or who is autistic wanders away.