Montcalm County News

A 34-year-old Comstock Park man has been sentenced to prison after he fought with a Montcalm County sheriff's deputy, not long after he crashed an SUV into a tree while his 4-year-old son was riding in his lap.

Police from the Lakeview Post responded to Muskellunge Lake in Montcalm County at about 11:30pm Wednesday night on reports of a missing fisherman.

Thousands were without power in Northern Kent County and western Montcalm County after a line of strong storms blew through West Michigan.

A 24-year old Stanton man was injured Wednesday when he ran a stop sign and crashed into a dump truck, according to a Montcalm County Sheriff release.

A witness for the prosecution fell off the stand in a Montcalm County Court while having a seizure during the preliminary hearing for a child abuse case.

Former Central Michigan University student Kayla A. Bonkowski, 20, was sentenced to eight months of jail time Friday after pleading guilty to poisoning her roommate over an argument about dirty dishes.

A Montcalm County man is facing felony embezzlement charges related to thousands in missing funds from the county's chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police union.

The Montcalm County Sheriff's Department handled an alarm call at 1:17 Sunday morning, from Wrights Plastic Products in Sheridan.

The 37-year-old man, of Carson City, was a former employee of the business and had recently been terminated.

A West Michigan couple were found murdered two and a half years ago and the killer remains on the run.

The accident happened around 1:50 p.m. Friday at M-57 and Podunk Avenue NE, near the Kent and Montcalm County line.

The accident that occurred on Sunday, April 21, near Carson City, Michigan, injured three people that had been riding in an Amish buggy.