Berrien County News

The Berrien County Health Department says that the city of Benton Harbor has made progress recently in its efforts to provide residents with more opportunities for physical activity in their daily routines.

A former Berrien County resident is among Michigan's recent H1N1 fatalities. 33 year-old John David Prince, of Grand Rapids, died last Thursday from complications related to H1N1 after spending about a week at a Grand Rapids hospital.

Benton Harbor Police arrested a missing Berrien County sex offender Wednesday morning.

State social workers struggling with mounting welfare, food stamp and Medicaid caseloads said Wednesday they fear for their lives after being assaulted or threatened by recipients frustrated by delays in state aid.

There are a number of elections taking place in the Michiana area Tuesday. In Berrien County, there are six city elections taking place - Benton Harbor, Bridgman, Coloma, Niles, St.

Michigan State Police-Bridgman Post want to find a missing sex offender. Alfonso Gibbs, 32, formerly of Benton Township, was released June 29.

Further discussions on developing an area of Berrien County known as the I-94 Corridor are being put on hold.

Some local farms are in trouble a * facing federal fines a * for violating migrant housing and child labor laws.

The Berrien County Republican Party hosted a healthcare forum in Berrien Springs on Wednesday.

BENTON HARBOR There will be some new faces among Benton Harbor Commissioners after next week's election.

Flu-like symptoms continue to keep a relatively high number of students out of the classroom, but two schools in St.

The Rev. Edward Pinkney, the minister who ran for Congress from state prison, is no longer on house arrest.

On the same day President Barack Obama declared the H1N1 flu outbreak a national emergency, people stood in long lines for H1N1 flu vaccinations at Lake Michigan College.

Two church leaders raised concerns Thursday about Berrien County taking over dispatch duties for the city of Benton Harbor.

Saint Joseph Schools appear to have been hit pretty hard by the flu this year. On Monday, Superintendent Al Skibbe told us that the district has 626 kids out sick, which is more than 20 percent of the total student population.

Benton Harbor City Commissioners this week voted to contract police dispatch services out to Berrien County.

The Berrien County Health Department has finalized its H1N1 vaccination clinic schedule.

Lyle Sumerix, who for half a century devoted his considerable talents to the service of southwestern Michigan both as a community member and newsman, died on Friday in his Buchanan home after an illness.

A record marijuana bust on I-94 in Berrien County Thursday. Michigan State Police Sergeant Linda Shinsky says that around one in the afternoon, a commercial truck was stopped on eastbound 94 near the New Buffalo weigh station, around mile marker two: Listen: That translates to nearly three-million-700 thousand dollars' worth of marijuana: Listen: ...

Posted 3 hours, 37 minutes ago at 9:32 am. Unemployment went up more than eight percentage points in St.