
Hidalgo named Wooden Award finalist
LOS ANGELES — For the second time in as many years, Hannah Hidalgo is a finalist for the top award in women’s college basketball. On Tuesday, the Irish sophomore was...
LOS ANGELES — For the second time in as many years, Hannah Hidalgo is a finalist for the top award in women’s college basketball. On Tuesday, the Irish sophomore was...
CASSOPOLIS — A Dowagiac man is going to prison after being sentenced for sexually molesting an underage girl over several months in 2023. James Joseph Tovey, 26, of Dowagiac, pleaded...
CASSOPOLIS — An employee of a Dowagiac organization that provides guardianship related services was sentenced to probation, jail and over $36,000 in restitution for stealing from the organization’s clients. Runyon...
SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN — Beacon Health System, a locally-owned and governed nonprofit healthcare provider in northern Indiana and southern Michigan, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the Ascension healthcare system...
CASS COUNTY — A 39-year-old male was arrested Thursday on suspicion of breaking and entering, according to the Cass County Sheriff’s Office. Sheriff Clint Roach reports that at approximately 2:17...
NILES — A popular family-owned restaurant celebrated more than three decades of serving the community Wednesday. Prime Table, 1915 S. 11th St., Niles, celebrates its 32nd year of serving up...
SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN — Power companies are still working diligently to restore power to thousands of homes across southwest Michigan after a severe line of storms battered the area Sunday. A...
SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN — More than 95 percent of all I&M customers had power restored as of 7:30 p.m. Tuesday night following severe weather last Sunday that included a confirmed tornado...
SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN — With Spring Break in full swing – March 31 to April 4 for many southwest Michigan schools and April 7 to April 11 for South Bend-area schools...
EDWARDSBURG — The storms that ripped through Michiana Sunday spawned a brief EF-1 tornado in Edwardsburg, the National Weather Service has confirmed. (NWS) The tornado started in a field west...
BUCHANAN — Buchanan Community Schools students are preparing for their first musical performance of 2025. The Buchanan High School Drama Club will be performing “The Addams Family Musical” in the...
DOWAGIAC — A narcotics investigation led to the arrest of one man Tuesday in Dowagiac, according to the Cass County Drug Enforcement Team. The Cass County Drug Enforcement Team announces...
KALAMAZOO — The Niles Brandywine girls basketball team overcame poor first-half shooting and rode its stingy defense to a 43-25 Division 3 state quarterfinals win Tuesday over Grand Rapids Calvin...
NILES — An area resident was sentenced to prison Monday at the Niles courthouse for felony drunk driving. Meadows Brian Christopher Meadows, 45, pleaded guilty to third offense drunk driving...
EDWARDSBURG — The Edwardsburg Village Council approved their 2025-2026 proposed budget, as well as the budget amendments for March and the audit for 2025 at their regular monthly meeting on...
DOWAGIAC — Three Dowagiac Middle School students have been named local winners in the 56th annual America & Me Essay Contest, sponsored by Farm Bureau Insurance. The students have earned...
Editor, In 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill, which raised American tariffs (taxes) on imports by the second-highest amount in U.S. history. This bill had disastrous consequences,...
NILES — The Niles-Buchanan branch of the NAACP will host its next meeting at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 25 in the lower level of the Niles District Library, 620 E....
DOWAGIAC — It’s been 30 years since Tonya Cosey graduated from Southwestern Michigan College. As a “proud Chieftain,” the 1988 Union High School graduate still calls Dowagiac home. Cosey worked...
NILES — A Niles woman was sentenced to prison Monday at the Niles courthouse for abusing her children. Jackson Angeleah Rose Jackson, 34, of Niles, pleaded no contest to two...