Napoleon News

Even as Jackson County staggers under double-digit joblessness, the U.S. Census Bureau is not being flooded with applicants for jobs paying up to $16.50 an hour.

Napoleon Township police are trying to locate the driver and vehicle involved in a Sunday crash that injured a 20-year-old Onsted man.

Even as Jackson County staggers under double-digit joblessness, the U.S. Census Bureau is not being flooded with applicants for jobs paying up to $16.50 an hour.

A car chase ended with a foot race in Jackson County Sunday. Napoleon Township Officer Mark Kortz says he saw a 1985 Chevy Monte Carlo turn onto Napoleon Road at M-50. When the suspect saw the officer, he tried to lose him.

When Penny Sarles first chose the USS Hopper as the benefactor of a community project, she had no idea the naval vessel carried more than one area resident.

A 35-year-old man with a last-known address in Jerome and three outstanding arrest warrants faces a charge of fleeing and eluding police after he led a Napoleon Township officer on a chase Sunday.

In Napoleon Township, police are investigating a break in at a home on the 10000 block of Austin Road.

Jackson resident Bettie Stockard believes there is power and joy in giving back to others in need.

Richard Nichols of Michigan Center holds what may be a Jackson-area record. He has helped bury or cremate 5,600 people, about 1,000 more than the current population of Michigan Center.

Hunters helped police track down two wanted men in Jackson County. According to Napoleon Township Police, the two men broke into a home on the 6200 block of Brooklyn Road Tuesday morning just before 11.

Two people are facing criminal charges after police said they broke into a Napoleon Township home Tuesday morning and assaulted the female occupant.

A Jackson County sheriff's deputy who was in the right place at the right time saved a Vandercook Lake couple from a house fire Saturday morning.

A Concord man is dead after crashing his sport utility vehicle into a tree. The accident happened at around 1:30 Saturday morning on North Stony Lake just east of Taylorfield in Jackson County's Napoleon Township.

More than 150 members of Our Lady of Fatima in Michigan Center have signed a petition calling for the removal of the Rev.

Kyla Mathews of Quakertown, Pa., left, and Alicia Swartzendruber of Edmond, Okla., remove buckthorn from YMCA Storer Camps in Napoleon Township.

CLAIRE CUMMINGS Students in Napoleon, Mich., exercise their bodies and minds by reading while pedaling bikes NAPOLEON, Mich.

Baker College veterinary tech students Maria Bommarito, left, Holly Mays and Heather Dixon react as a mouse runs up Mays arm in a surgical suite at Transpharm in Napoleon.

Bud Fifield discusses what it's like to work in the auto repair business. Name: Bud Fifield Age: 49 Residence: Leslie Township Position and workplace: Co-owner of Jim's Collision and Service, 4249 Page Ave., Michigan Center; and Jim's Collision and Jim's Service Center, 7439 and 7441 S. Brooklyn Road, Napoleon Length of employment: Four years ...

With his home furnace in need of repair, K.C. Wilkinson set a fire Thursday in a rarely used, front-room fireplace and left the house to cut wood.

Four teenagers were taken to Allegiance Health early Wednesday morning after the car they were riding in left the road and struck a tree in Grass Lake.