Van Buren County News

Story first posted at 7:18 a.m. Friday, July 3, 2009. A routine traffic stop in Decatur just before 2 a.m. Friday turned into the unexpected when a suspected drunk driver plowed into the back of a patrol car - when the deputy was standing by the car's trunk.

The Van Buren County Sheriff's Department says they have arrested a 27-year-old man from Bangor for armed robbery with what was later determined to be a BB gun.

Van Buren County deputies say they have busted a man selling bootleg movies at a local flea market.

Authorities say a fire broke out in a southwestern Michigan house with four people inside, killing one of them and sending the other three to the hospital.

Two people were sent to a local hospital following a Van Buren County house fire late Monday.

A statewide heating assistance program served many of Kalamazoo area families during the winter, with a spike in need that program leaders attribute to the poor economy.

Michigan fairs that are scrambling to adjust to a nearly $1.5 million loss in state-provided premiums may not see the subsidy return any time soon.

A Lawrence-area woman will stand trial on murder charges for the death of her husband who was killed in 2007 in a fire that police said was intentionally set , a Van Buren County judge ruled today.

Michigan authorities removed two children from a licensed Van Buren County foster mother Tuesday evening after finding an active meth lab in the home.

If you are living in the dark in Southwest Michigan, you can expect to have the lights back on by Saturday night at the very latest.

Many across West Michigan were woken up in the middle of the night by the thunder and lightning that combined for an incredible display.

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

The loss of transmission to two substations early Friday morning resulted in power outages for about 26-hundred Midwest Energy Cooperative customers in Van Buren County.

A Laingsburg man was killed in a motorcycle crash on Wednesday in Van Buren County.

A 31-year-old man died and his 11-year-old son was injured in a motorcycle crash on an I-94 exit ramp Wednesday.

A motorcyclist died Wednesday after crashing his cycle while exiting Interstate 94, police said.

Police in Van Buren County's Covert Township are looking for two suspects who injured a truck driver early Saturday when they threw concrete off an I-196 overpass into his windshield.

Robert Spangler will spend the rest of his life behind bars after being found sentenced for murder in a Van Buren County courtroom.

Students Alexis Edwards and Kaiden Cole of South Haven's Maple Grove Elementary School give staff members reason to reflect.

Many of the items theya re accused of stealing have been recovered and now two Paw Paw men have been arrested for numerous pole barn break-ins and a home invasion in Van Buren County.