West Branch News

A Midland man is facing charges in Ogemaw County after allegedly assaulting a man with a shotgun Thursday night.

Chris Russell not only plays Beat the Pros, he's getting his family involved. 'I've got my fiancee into it, her family, my mom, my brother, a good friend of mine,' the Pinckney resident said.

Hide Video An Ogemaw County man will appear in court for the second time today, accused of trying to kill a woman.

Yet another Sheltrown brother has his eyes set on a job in the Legislature. Van Sheltrown , 54, hopes to take the torch from his elder sibling, Rep.

The folks over at the Mudchuggers Four-Wheel Drive Club have announced the dates for the 16th Annual Sno*Blind Expedition.

One Mid-Michigan resident said he was growing marijuana within guidelines set by the state, but police came and confiscated the stash anyway.

Fast-selling travel documents speed return from Canada, Mexico Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land announced today that the popular enhanced driver's license and state ID card now are available at the West Branch branch office.

A preliminary hearing for an Arizona man suspected of transporting drugs through mid-Michigan has been pushed back to mid-October. Marshall W. Johnson faces charges of delivery or manufacture of a controlled substance, delivery or manufacture of marijuana and driving on a suspended license.

Counterfeiters are making the rounds of area businesses, police said. Six merchants in Iosco, Ogemaw and Gladwin counties have fallen for the ruse to the tune of at least $1,500 in the past two weeks, investigators claim.

Police need your help in finding a man believed to be forging payroll checks then cashing them at area businesses.

A cold case murder in Midland County is now closed. It was back in 1977 when Doris Arndt went missing.

An autopsy is scheduled for this afternoon to determined how a Flushing native died after she was found dead in her car in Bay County's Monitor Township.

An autopsy has confirmed that 29-year-old Emily J. Plouffe-Simunic was the woman who died in a one-car crash in Bay County.

MARLETTE -- Annabell McCready, 74, died Sunday June 14, 2009. Survived by her husband Erwin McCready.

Published: Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 4:54 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, June 9, 2009 at 4:54 p.m. As soon as 5-year-old Nate sees the two girls hop from their father's car, he starts squealing.

Monday, May 25, 2009 at 8:26 p.m. A Clio man is now out of jail after leading law enforcement officers on a nearly 40 mile chase.

Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today participated in a ground-breaking ceremony in West Branch today for the first of almost 800 state and local transportation projects paid for by $873 million in federal recovery money that will create or sustain approximately 25,000 jobs.

Governor Jennifer Granholm was in Ogemaw County on Friday for the ground breaking of the first stimulus-funded road project in Michigan.