Decatur News

Births BRONSON METHODIST HOSPITAL Iyeshia Lewis, of Kalamazoo, a son. Amy McDonald and Corey Shank, of Kalamazoo, a daughter.

Here are vital statistics for Friday, Nov. 13, 2009: Births BRONSON METHODIST HOSPITAL David and Tiffany Bierlein, of Kalamazoo, a daughter.

Kent County authorities have determined that a Paw Paw police officer was -not- partly to blame for the death of a Decatur man in a car crash this fall.

A Marcellus woman is hospitalized after she swerved to avoid a deer and her car struck a tree and rolled over in Van Buren County early Saturday.

Posted 3 hours, 53 minutes ago at 10:20 am. By JOHN EBY Dowagiac Daily News Dowagiac voters rewarded Mayor Donald D. Lyons with a fourth four-year term Tuesday while Cass County's electorate passed a fifth of a mill for E-911 emergency telephone service.

Voters in the Decatur Public Schools district overwhelmingly approved a ballot question Tuesday for $12.05 million in school improvements.

Van Buren County: South Haven will have a new mayor, following Tuesday's election.

There are building systems that everyone pays attention to when it comes to improving operating performance .

By JULIE MACK jmack@kalamazoogazette.com 388-8578 Area voters go to the polls Tuesday to decide multimillion-dollar bond issues for Colon and Decatur schools and an anti-discrimination ordinance and Metro Transit tax request in Kalamazoo.

A Dowagiac man is in critical condition after the car he was driving crashed at County Road 687 and 60th Street in Keeler Township, Mich., near Decatur, on Saturday morning, the Van Buren County Sheriff's Office reported in a news release Saturday.

A 24-year-old South Haven woman and her 4-year-old daughter escaped serious injury after striking a tractor-semitrailer and rolling the Pontiac Grand Prix in which they were riding, police said.

A 22-year-old is badly burned after a motor home catches fire. But that leads police to another discovery, they found what was left of a meth lab.

Dowagiac "is a city in need right now," says Liberty Chapel Pastor Mark Saylor. "People think to be rich is what you can hold in your hand, what you can drive or what you live in.

A 22-year-old man suffered numerous burns when a mobile methamphetamine lab twice burst into flames in Van Buren County on Friday night.

A Cass County couple who trusted their investment advisor found out they might have just as well invested their funds with Bernie Madoff as their money is gone.

He's not Bernie Madoff, but his actions left his victims feeling just as devastated, Cass County Circuit Judge Michael Dodge told Richard Charles Moore before sentencing him to jail and probation.

Six people were treated for minor injuries before being released from Bronson Methodist Hospital after a two-car collision Friday night on I-94 near Paw Paw Township.

Comstock Public Schools may be seeing its first enrollment increase this decade.

Births BRONSON METHODIST HOSPITAL Scott and Nicole Armstrong, a son. Stephanie Cooper and Dioatrae Virgil, of Kalamazoo, a daughter.

The father of a Decatur man who was in what police called a ``devastating'' a head-on collision then had his pickup truck struck again by a responding police car has retained an attorney.