Jackson County News

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.

Kevyn VanWert clears a strip of corn stalks eight rows wide as he harvests it with a combine Wednesday afternoon.

The second of three people arrested in connection with a string of local home break-ins pleaded guilty Friday.

A Jackson man accused of taking part in a scheme to defraud mortgage companies of thousands of dollars may stand trial in Jackson County Circuit Court.

A Jackson man admitted Tuesday to scamming elderly people out of cash by telling them their grandchildren needed help.

When Leslie Robbins' children were young, she found a fun, effective way to keep germs at bay during cold and flu season - she asked her children to sing when they washed their hands.

As evaluators eyed their every turn, Jackson firefighters maneuvered a 30-foot fire truck Thursday through a maze of cones at the Jackson County Fairgrounds.

Two members of the Jackson County Special Response Team run through a training exercise to take control of a city bus Friday morning at the R.V. Gray Pistol Range in Jackson.

DETROIT - Two trucks overturned in each direction on Interstate 94 near Chelsea after their drivers fell asleep early today.

The Michigan Senate is welcoming a new lawmaker to fill the seat of an ex-member who was elected to Congress.

To even the score after Charles Schmucker allegedly scammed him of $400 in a failed marijuana transaction, Eric Trolz said he and his friends went to meet the 24-year-old to steal drugs or money.

Karen Dunigan and her new vision defeated incumbent Mayor Jerry Ludwig and his experience Tuesday.

The Michigan Supreme Court has named Judge John McBain chief judge of the 4th Circuit Court in Jackson County.

Republican and Democratic party leaders had vastly different takes on the significance of Tuesday's lopsided victory for the GOP in the state Senate race in the 19th District, which includes all of Calhoun County and most of Jackson County.

LANSING -- State welfare workers are threatened by clients, overworked and struggle with lax security, balky computers and inadequate phone systems, a House committee was told today.

Voters cast their ballots at Cascades Baptist Church on Tuesday. With 95 of 107 precincts reporting, Mike Nofs, a Republican from Battle Creek, leads with 18,848 votes to Martin Griffin's 10,822 votes in the 19th District state Senate race.

Jackson Public Schools officials hope to spearhead efforts to look at consolidating school districts or services to help schools countywide save money as state aid dwindles.

After opting out of Grass Lake Township's newly established Downtown Development Authority last June, officials from the Jackson District Library are considering changing their minds.

Temp: 53.0 F Wind Chill: 49 F Font Size: An 18-year-old Jackson man is in the hospital after being shot in the shoulder.

Nicole Bisard said she saw her former boyfriend beat and hang an 18-week-old puppy by the collar in the time before the animal, bleeding and gasping for breath, died.