Allegan County News

Michigan State Police has confirmed a 14 year old boy drowned today while swimming with family and friends in Trowbridge Township FOX 17 NEWS July 3, 2009 ALLEGAN COUNTY - An official with the Michigan State Police says a teenager died today after drowning in an Allegan County lake while spending time with family and friends.

Authorities in southwestern Michigan say they've arrested a suspect in the rape and slaying of a woman whose partially nude body was found in April 1993 in the Kalamazoo River.

A murder suspect is on the run in Michiana and police are asking for your help to find the man.

Guardrails hang over the washed-out section of 48th Street south of Ottagan Street.

Allegan County commissioners are still adding up storm damage from the torrential rain storms that swept over West Michigan, earlier this month.

OTTAWA/ALLEGAN COUNTIES, Mich. - Storm damage estimates continue to climb in Ottawa County.

A 36-year-old western Michigan woman accused of stabbing her 14-year-old stepson in the back with a kitchen knife has pleaded guilty in the case.

A Wayland woman was in critical condition Friday morning at Spectrum Butterworth following a car-bus accident late Thursday afternoon.

As officials are still tallying damage costs, the Allegan County Board of Commissioners on Thursday officially continued its state of emergency and decided to ask the governor to also declare a state of emergency for the county.

Clean up continues in Allegan County as leaders there consider asking the state for help.

The chair of the Allegan County Board of Commissioners declared a local state of emergency Tuesday because of Friday's storm, which cut gorges through several roads and destroyed bridges.

The Allegan County Board of Commissioners has declared a state of emergency as a result of significant storm damage that occurred last Friday, according to a letter issued this morning.

Government officials said Monday that while they need to collect data on flood damage done to Holland-area homes, little - if any - financial aid would be coming to individuals whose property was damaged by Friday night storms.

A weekend of wild weather has left some in Allegan County picking up the pieces.

The wreckage was everywhere. Metal ripped from a shed and thrown nearly a half-mile rested in a cluster of trees.

Members of Allegan County's cold-case team say they believe a man who disappeared in 1994 was murdered and that someone might know where his body is located.

The National Weather Service office in Grand Rapids has issued a flash flood warning for parts of Allegan and Ottawa counties for early Friday morning.

A judge delayed sentencing Friday for former Hamilton bus driver Eugene Shingle, accused of molesting a special needs student, after defense attorneys raised questions about the proposed prison term.

A new animal shelter will be built at the Allegan County Services Complex at Dumont Lake, the Allegan County Board of Commissioners has tentatively decided.

A year after Clarissa "Jean" Green and her 17-year-old nephew, Dean Taylor, died when their car plunged into a Lakeshore Drive chasm, relatives say the Allegan County Road Commission should be held responsible.