Kalamazoo County News

Donald Haugen, 54, of Texas Township, has pleaded no contest to a felony charge in connection with hundreds of toxic barrels that were found on his property following a pole barn fire in August 2008.

Ypsilanti Public Schools Superintendent Dedrick Martin will be leaving the new Ypsilanti Community Schools district and consolidation effort to take a position with St.

Former addicts will share their stories of redemption and recovery next week in Kalamazoo as part of a special graduation and rally for National Drug Court Month.

Barbara Byrum, a former three-term Michigan State Representative and current Ingham County clerk, speaks to members of the Kalamazoo County Democratic Party on Thursday, May 16 at Theo and Stacy's Restaurant.

A driver in a fatal crash on the U.S. 131 Business Loop in November will face trial.

Jonetta Woods and her former boyfriend were neglectful when Woods' three children were left alone and died in an apartment fire, a Kalamazoo County jury found Wednesday.

A nasty flower disease is creeping into Michigan from neighboring states, leaving a trail of dead and dying impatiens in its wake.

Portage District Court was on the second floor of what is now the Portage Public Safety Department building on Shaver Road.

Locey has been administrator and treasurer of the South Kalamazoo County Fire Authority since 2005 and administrator of South County EMS since 2006.

A Delton man long suspected of killing his roommates has been charged with open murder in one of the deaths.

On the day her three youngest children died in an apartment fire , Jonetta Woods told a Kalamazoo Public Safety detective that she had gone to a friend's apartment nearby and left the toddlers with her boyfriend.

Ypsilanti Public Schools Superintendent Dedrick Martin was recruited as a finalist for the superintendency of the Kalamazoo Regional Education Service Agency .

Rogers, commissioner of District 5, will hold her community coffee from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Saturday, May 18 at the Westwood Fire Station, 1310 Nichols Rd.

His plea agreement cut in half the minimum sentence Larry Brogan could have faced for a sexual relationship he carried on with a 12-year-old Kalamazoo County girl he met over the Internet.

It is a one-of-kind school in west Michigan designed for students with severe mental and physical disabilities.

Dustin James Castaneda, 31, of Richland, was sentenced to one month in jail, two years of probation and ordered to pay court costs, fines, state fees and restitution for third-offense operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated in February in Kalamazoo Township.

A Battle Creek-area baby with measles is recuperating without incident. But the 8-month old triggered a search for more than 100 people in 15 states who could have been exposed to the disease when the contagious baby traveled on an international flight, health officials say.

John Aguilar listens Dr. Joyce DeJonge testifies in Kalamazoo County Circuit Court on the findings of the autopsy of Robert Medema.

At 5:37 p.m. Thursday, the Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office responded to a report of an accident with injuries at South Eighth Street and West ML Avenue in Oshtemo Township.

Two Kalamazoo residents involved in a single-car crash in Oshtemo Township were in critical condition Thursday night, police said.