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Oct 27, 2024 2 min read

Edwardsburg earns 62-0 Senior Night win over Sturgis

EDWARDSBURG — The Edwardsburg football team ended the regular season in winning fashion Friday night. The Eddies ran over and around visiting Sturgis to win 62-0 on Senior Night. Edwardsburg...

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Oct 27, 2024 4 min read

Harden: Scott Novak, a local hero

To say Scott Novak was an inspiration to me would be an understatement. Over the course of five decades, Scott had his pulse on the local sports scene in a...

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Oct 27, 2024 4 min read

Eby: Scott Novak, my other better half

In my mind, my relationship with Scott Novak spanned 60 years. One of the Paul Bunyan-like tall tales he enjoyed spinning was his role in bringing A Hard Day’s Night...

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Oct 24, 2024 5 min read

Vancouver Persian community reacts to death of president of Iran

Ebrahim Raisi, the president of Iran, died in a helicopter crash along with seven other people on Sunday, May 19, near the border of Azerbaijan. While a funeral service was...

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Oct 24, 2024 4 min read

Cains: Scott Novak remembered for community impact

With the passing of our longtime columnist and sports editor, Scott Novak, there is an emptiness in locker rooms, media booths and along the sidelines in southwest Michigan this week....

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Oct 24, 2024 4 min read

Cassopolis school board discusses facilities project

CASSOPOLIS — At the regular monthly meeting of the Cassopolis Public School Board on Monday, Business Manager James English presented a report on the Long Term Facilities Visioning project that...

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Oct 24, 2024 3 min read

Arnie’s Drive In celebrates grand opening with ribbon-tying ceremony

DOWAGIAC — Jake Arnold loves to cook food and serve customers. As the owner of Happy Jake’s in Dowagiac and Wakey Jakes in Marcellus, Arnold and his wife Brooke enjoy...

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Oct 24, 2024 3 min read

Annual walk-a-thon raises $4,600 for college scholarships

DOWAGIAC — Community members took to the track at Dowagiac Union High School Saturday morning to honor the life and legacy of Ronda Lucas-Sullivan.  The Ronda Lucas-Sullivan Legacy Foundation hosted...

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Oct 24, 2024 3 min read

Edwardsburg celebrates new iron filtration plant

EDWARDSBURG — The Edwardsburg Village Council received a long-awaited announcement at their regular monthly meeting on Monday, informing them that the new iron filtration plant was online as of 10am...

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Oct 24, 2024 1 min read

Hidden Acres hosts annual Trunk or Treat, Fall Market

SILVER CREEK TOWNSHIP — Hidden Acres Safe Haven, 50582 Pleasant St., Dowagiac, hosted its annual Trunk or Treat and Fall Market Saturday. Guests were able to participate in wagon rides,...

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Oct 24, 2024 3 min read

Area men sentenced to prison

NILES — Two area men were sentenced to prison Monday in Berrien County Trial Court at the Niles courthouse.      Richard Romeo Hill, Jr., 32, of Benton Harbor, pleaded guilty...

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Oct 24, 2024 2 min read

Downtown Niles to host annual Fall Festival Saturday

NILES — Downtown Niles will soon play host to an event filled with fall festivities. Niles Main Street DDA is gearing up to host its annual Niles Fall Festival Saturday,...

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Oct 18, 2024 1 min read

Harris pokes fun at Trump in pre-recorded skit

Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell privately criticised Donald Trump as “stupid”, “ill-tempered”, and “a despicable human being” after the 2020 election, according to excerpts from a new McConnell biography reported...

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Oct 18, 2024 2 min read

‘He thought of himself as a king’: The parties that led to...

There was a time when an invitation to a party hosted by Sean “Diddy” Combs was one of the most sought-after tickets in the entertainment industry. With guest lists that...

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Oct 18, 2024 1 min read

Pakistani police say 5 Chinese nationals and their local driver were killed...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber in northwest Pakistan rammed his explosive-laden car into a vehicle Tuesday, killing five Chinese nationals and their Pakistani driver, police and government officials...

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Oct 18, 2024 1 min read

A father and son are indicted on murder charges in Georgia high...

ATLANTA — A Georgia grand jury indicted both a father and son on murder charges Thursday in a mass shooting at Apalachee High School in Winder. Georgia media outlets reported...

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Oct 18, 2024 2 min read

Judge unseals Ruben Gallego divorce filing that has hovered over Arizona senate...

Newly unsealed divorce records reveal U.S. Senate hopeful Ruben Gallego petitioned to end his marriage with Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego in 2016. The nearly year-long court battle to have those records unsealed...

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Oct 18, 2024 1 min read

Prada and Axiom Space reveal modernized NASA spacesuits for the 2026 moon...

NASA’s new space suits are getting a hand from Italian luxury fashion house Prada in preparation for humanity’s 2026 return to the moon’s surface. Axiom Space and Prada debuted the...

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Oct 18, 2024 2 min read

Phoenix police allegedly beat, repeatedly tased deaf Black man who has cerebral...

A deaf Black man with cerebral palsy was allegedly beaten and tased by Phoenix police officers this summer, in a violent incident that has gained national attention following the release...

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Oct 18, 2024 2 min read

King Charles III’s visit rekindles Australia’s debate on ending ties to the...

MELBOURNE, Australia — King Charles III and Queen Camilla will arrive in Sydney on Friday for the first Australian visit by a reigning monarch in more than a decade, a...

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