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Saturday Nov 29 | Kalamazoo Gazette

Events happening in southwestern Michigan

Lunch is served throughout the day. Proceeds from the show go directly into the athletic boosters general fund and are used to purchase uniforms and equipment for all Decatur athletes.

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Related Topix: Plainwell, MI, Kalamazoo, MI, Kalamazoo Metro, Portage, MI

Tue Nov 18, 2008

WSBT

Michigan 51 accidents send 6 to hospital

Two accidents along Michigan 51 sent six people to area hospitals Monday. The Cass County Sheriff's Office said the first crash happened about 7:35 a.m. near Swamp Street in Wayne Twp.

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Related Topix: Michigan, Cass County, MI, Dowagiac, MI, Niles, MI

Tue Nov 04, 2008

Niles Daily Star

More of this story

It's the second time a 69-year-old Marcellus man will go behind prison bars. Friday in Cass County Circuit Court, Jerome Wilkins of 54303 Cranberry Road, Marcellus, was sent to prison for second-degree criminal ...

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Related Topix: Prison, Marcellus, MI, Cass County, MI, Dowagiac, MI

Sun Nov 02, 2008

Kalamazoo Gazette

Ex-employees get OK to buy Knoll business

Van Buren County Circuit Judge William C. Buhl has signed an order opening the way for two former employees of Decatur businessman Evan Knoll to buy his near-bankrupt racing-fuel business.

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Related Topix: Van Buren County, MI, Paw Paw, MI

Fri Oct 31, 2008

WOOD-TV Grand Rapids

Fatal accident closes I-94 lanes in Van Buren Co.

A driver was killed in a collision involving two semi trucks that shut down the eastbound lanes of I-94. The crash happened near the 55 mile marker in Van Buren County, near Decatur, shortly after 6 a.m. Friday ...

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Related Topix: Van Buren County, MI

Fri Oct 24, 2008

Kalamazoo Gazette

Racing-fuel empire's assets may be sold off

Assets of a former multimillion-dollar racing-fuel empire that is now under federal tax investigation are scheduled to be auctioned Nov.

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Related Topix: Van Buren County, MI

Mon Oct 20, 2008

South Bend Tribune

SMC accepts engineering scholarship

The Southwestern Michigan College board of trustees recently accepted a $133,000 donation to establish the Charles R. Smith Memorial Scholarship.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Inventions

Wed Oct 15, 2008

Kalamazoo Gazette

Decatur soldier admits killing woman

A soldier from Van Buren County admitted he had violent sex with a 19-year-old woman before cutting her throat and leaving her to die in the wooded foothills west of Colorado Springs, according to an arrest ...

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Related Topix: Van Buren County, MI, Lawrence, MI, MySpace.com, Startups, Social Software

Wed Oct 08, 2008

South Bend Tribune

'Murder at the Mansion'

Pay attention. Listen carefully. Take notes. If you do all that - and use your imagination - you just might determine who killed Charles and Esther Morris on Sept.

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Fri Oct 03, 2008

Muncie Free Press

Traffic Stop Yields Large Amount of Marijuana

Two men, one from Decatur, Michigan and one from Elkhart, Indiana were arrested early Thursday morning by Indiana State Trooper Kris Coffey, for possessing approximately 60 pounds of marijuana in the trunk of ...

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Thu Oct 02, 2008

Journal Gazette

60 pounds of marijuana seized

Compiled by Tom Pellegrene Jr. Men from Elkhart and from Decatur, Mich., were arrested in Adams County today on charges they possessed more than 10 pounds of marijuana with the intent to deliver, Indiana State ...

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Mon Sep 22, 2008

Courier Leader

Decatur soup supper to be held Friday, September 26

West Valley Livestock will host a soup supper at the Decatur Township Hall, 103 E. Delaware Street on Friday, September 26 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. The all-you-can-eat meal will cost $3, and include a choice of ...

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Sun Sep 21, 2008

WWMT-TV Kalamazoo

Decatur Man Dead after Hitting Tree

A Decatur man is dead after hitting a tree head on. The Van Buren County Sheriff's Deparmtent says it happened around 9p.m. Saturday at the intersection of 40th Street and 82nd Avenue.

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Related Topix: Van Buren County, MI

Sat Sep 13, 2008

Kalamazoo Gazette

Police find suspected meth lab

Police said they found an active methamphetamine lab inside the garage of a Portage home on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Portage, MI, Kalamazoo, MI, Kalamazoo Metro, Paw Paw, MI

Fri Sep 12, 2008

WWMT-TV Kalamazoo

Deputies believe they've solved a string of break-ins

Van Buren County Deputies say that they've found the man behind a number of summer break-ins. They arrested Dennis Hall on Monday for an outstanding warrant, but he's looking at a slew of new charges.

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Related Topix: Van Buren County, MI, Paw Paw, MI

Thu Sep 11, 2008

Cassopolis Vigilant

Decatur man arrested at football field

Dowagiac Police Chief Tom Atkinson reports his department arrested a man Friday night for several drug-related charges.

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Related Topix: Dowagiac, MI, Drugs

Wed Sep 10, 2008

WOOD-TV Grand Rapids

Decatur man charged in two separate thefts

A Decatur man has been charged for stealing from a business and a foreclosed home.

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Related Topix: Paw Paw, MI

Sat Sep 06, 2008

WSJM AM 1400 & FM 94.9

Lost Decatur Girl Found

The Herald Palladium reports Haley Muncy of County Road 668, south of Decatur, apparently left her backyard and wandered around barefoot in cornfields for almost 3 hours beofre she was found.....thanks to an ...

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Kalamazoo Gazette

Missing toddler found safe

A 3-year-old child missing for about three hours Friday afternoon was found safe about a mile from her house, wandering in a cornfield.

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Related Topix: Van Buren County, MI, Paw Paw, MI

Tue Sep 02, 2008

Niles Daily Star

Traffic stop leads to meth

Two Decatur men also went to prison Friday for methamphetamine making, Christopher Kirby, 36, of 100 East Bronson St., and Clyde Rowlee, 38, of 305 E. Sherwood St.

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Related Topix: Cass County, MI, Niles, MI, Prison

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