Category Archives: State News
LaValley Bound Over for Trial on Triple Murder Charges
ALLEGAN, MI (WHTC) – A 32-year-old Dorr man was bound over for trial on open murder, arson and felony firearm charges. Corey LaValley is accused of shooting his 33-year-old girlfriend Debra Shep...
Jul 30, 2015
Bidding for New Statewide Voting Equipment Opens
LANSING, MI (WHTC) – Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson has opened up the bidding process for replacing more than 10-year-old election equipment used in all of the state's 48 hundred votin...
Jul 30, 2015
Wayne County Financial Emergency Confirmed by Governor
LANSING, MI (WHTC) – Governor Snyder has reaffirmed an initial determination from eight days ago that a financial emergency exists in Wayne County. A review team recommended state intervention e...
Jul 30, 2015
Wayland Man Killed in Head-on Crash Near Hometown
LEIGHTON TWP., MI (WHTC) – State Police say that a 50-year-old Wayland man died on Wednesday afternoon when his westbound vehicle on 142nd Avenue, north of his hometown, went past Kalamazoo Aven...
Jul 29, 2015
Blueberry Burglars Sought Near South Haven
GENEVA TWP., MI (WHTC) – Van Buren County Sheriff's deputies are looking for whoever took 87 Green Blue Berry Lugs worth nearly twenty-seven-hundred dollars from a 16th Avenue blueberry farm nea...
Jul 29, 2015
A Bigger Disaster than the Titanic? Author Claims So
SOUTH HAVEN, MI (WHTC) – Local author Michael McCarthy, who wrote about the 1915 sinking of the steamship Eastland in the Chicago River that claimed more lives than the Titanic three years earli...
Jul 29, 2015
MSU Survey Shows Economic Confidence Up, Governor's Approval Rate Down
EAST LANSING, MI (WHTC) – According to Michigan State University’s quarterly State of the State Survey, 60 percent of 966 respondents rated their financial situation as good or excellent, ...
Jul 29, 2015
Pay-to-Play High Schools Dip in 2014-15: MHSAA
EAST LANSING, MI (WHTC) – The Michigan High School Athletic Association reported a five-percent drop among its members that assessed participation fees to help fund interscholastic athletics dur...
Jul 29, 2015
Bangor man found after walking out of adult group home
BANGOR, MI (WHTC) – Van Buren County Deputies, looking for a 52-year-old Bangor man who apparently walked away from a residential adult group home off of 63rd Street, said on Tuesday evening tha...
Jul 28, 2015
Motorists call to get alleged drunken trucker off of U.S.131
BRADLEY, MI (WHTC) – Sometimes those in blue or brown need the help of you and me to get a drunken driver off of the road. Such was the case last evening in Allegan County, where a man hauling 2...
Jul 28, 2015
