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Otis headed back to prison

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BATTLE CREEK — Just over six months after Dale Otis, 49, of Kinderhook Township was paroled from his Branch County meth sentence, he is back in jail facing more serious charges following an incident last Friday in Homer. Calhoun County Sheriff Deputies were called to 185 S. M-99 in Homer to investigate reports of a man waving an assault rifle outside the home of Leonard Bostwick, 34. They determined Otis was on parole, released last November, and the weapon violated his parole. [...]

Drugs sends Darr back to prison

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COLDWATER — “I have a drug problem. My past record indicates I have a drug problem,” Adam Darr, 35, of Jonesville, told Branch County Circuit Court Judge Bill O’Grady as he was sentenced to 18 months to 10 years for possession of meth residue on a glass pipe.Darr, on parole for a 2009 convictions from Hillsdale County for breaking and entering and destruction of property, said they were drug related, as was a prior Jackson County conviction for auto theft. [...]

Bronson Community Schools holds superintendent interviews

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BRONSON — Following two days of interviews of potential superintendents, the Bronson Community Schools Board of Education narrowed the field of six candidate to three. The second round of interviews is June 20.• 5:30 p.m – Patrick Weckel, principal, Brandywine Community Schools.• 6:20 p.m. – Richard Hilderly, principal Tecumseh Public Schools.• 7:10 p.m. – Bob Cassiday, principal Fremont Public Schools.Following a [...]

Judge Kashian Swears in new CASA members

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COLDWATER— The Court Appointed Special Advocates for children of Branch County, recently swore in seven new advocates.CASA volunteers must go through a pre-screening interview, submit to a national criminal background check and participated in training.Once approved by Branch County Probate Judge Kirk Kashian, volunteers are assigned cases and volunteer 8-10 hours a month.In 2008, the now retired Probate Judge Fredrick Wood, started the program.CASA of [...]

Michigan House passes Park expansion

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LANSING — A project to expand Angel Cover Park on River Road has passed the first step in obtaining state funding for the Branch County Parks Board.The Michigan House approved expenditures from state and Natural Resources Trust Fund to pay for park improvements and land acquisition across the state, including the expansion of Angel Cove Park along the Coldwater River.State Rep. Eric Leutheuser applauded House passage of funds which now must go to the senate. Two parcels [...]

Girard considering solar farm

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GIRARD TOWNSHIP — Girard Township Supervision Gene Easterday said he will hold public hearings on a proposal by an Arizona based solar company to lease 20 acres of township cemetery land for a solar farm. A date has not yet been set.Cypress Creek Renewables has proposed a lease for part of the 38 acre cemetery site now being farmed along Marshall Road south of Girard. A gas pipeline already cuts across part of the land.The land is not expected to be used for burials. [...]

Delly adds time for drug scheme

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COLDWATER — Former Lakeland Correction prison inmate Vincent Delly, 38, keeps adding to his prison term. Branch County Circuit Court Judge Bill O’Grady imposed 17 months to five years after Delly conspired to have outsiders send in strips of Suboxone, an opioid drug.Prison staff monitoring phone calls in October 2015 overheard plans to ship the drug to three inmates.The report said the packages were intercepted in early December, 2015.“Inspectors [...]

RISE: Navy promises full probe; London driver ID'd; Jihadis in Mali

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Acting Secretary of the Navy Sean Stackley says the Navy is deeply saddened and promised a full investigation into a collision between a destroyer and a container ship off Japan that killed seven sailors.

UCP seeks information on cemetery vandalism

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UNION CITY — On June 10 the Union City Police Department received a report from a resident of the Village of Union City that the Riverside Cemetery had received extensive damage from vandalism.Several tombstones were broken, shattered, and even relocated. Many decorative items such as American Flags and flower pots were also broken or destroyed."It's very disturbing and upsetting to see these monuments that have stood for hundreds of years vandalized and damaged, or that [...]

Arrest of homeless man shows failure of Michigan mental health system

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COLDWATER — A local homeless man, James Zaroff, 35, already found incompetent, is facing more charges because there is no place in the state for him, except jail.Coldwater Police were called after a report Zaroff had his pants unzipped which exposed himself to a group of people at South Jefferson near Pearl streets, including a young girl.Zaroff denied he did so when confronted by police and began to walk off. When officer Lewis Eastmead tried to put handcuffs on Zaroff, [...]

Car rams police vehicle on famed Paris avenue; attacker dies

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A man on the radar of French authorities was killed Monday after ramming a car carrying explosives into a police vehicle in the capital's Champs-Elysees shopping district, prompting a fiery blast, officials said. France's anti-terrorism prosecutor opened an investigation.

Cuba rejects new US policy, saying pressure will not work

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HAVANA — Cuba's foreign minister rejected President Donald Trump's new policy toward the island, saying Monday that "we will never negotiate under pressure or under threat" and refusing to return U.S. fugitives who have received asylum in Cuba.In a hard-edged response to the policy announced Friday, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said from Vienna that Trump's restrictions on transactions with the Cuban military would not achieve their objective of weakening the [...]

Man arrested on suspicion of terror offenses in London mosque attack

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London police say a 47-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of commission, preparation or instigation of terrorism including murder as well as attempted murder after a car plowed into a crowd of pedestrians near a north London mosque.

Coroner: Cocaine among drugs found in Carrie Fisher's system

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Carrie Fisher's autopsy report shows the actress had cocaine in her system when she fell ill on a plane last year, but investigators could not determine what impact the cocaine and other drugs found in her system had on her death.

Russia warns US after downing of Syrian warplane

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Warplanes from the U.S.-led coalition operating over Syrian government-controlled areas west of the Euphrates River will be tracked as potential targets, Russia's Defense Ministry said Monday, a day after the U.S. military shot down a Syrian air force jet.

Japan investigates delay in reporting US Navy ship collision

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A coast guard official said Monday they are trying to find out what the crew of the Philippine-flagged ACX Crystal was doing before reporting the collision off Japan's coast to authorities 50 minutes later.

US student freed by North Korea in a coma has died at 22

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The family announced his death in a statement released by UC Health Systems, saying, "It is our sad duty to report that our son, Otto Warmbier, has completed his journey home. Surrounded by his loving family, Otto died today at 2:20pm."

RISE: Google cracking down; Dems question Flynn disclosures; majority agree with ban

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A bankruptcy filing by Japanese air bag maker Takata will leave little money for dozens of people who sued the company over deaths and injuries caused by its exploding air bag inflators, according to outside legal experts and lawyers suing the company.

Eichler tries to withdraw guilty plea

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COLDWATER — A shocked Brandon Eichler, 35, tried to withdraw his guilty plea Monday after Branch County Circuit Court Judge Bill O’Grady sent the convicted felon back to prison. Eichler entered a plea May 15 to damaging a Coldwater patrol car October 25, 2016 and resisting officers by backing his car toward them as they tried to investigate an unconscious man in a parked car. Because of 20 prior criminal cases, Judge O’Grady sentenced Eichler to 16 months to four [...]

Alldredge pleas to testify against Dr. Christina Whitaker

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COLDWATER — Gretchen Alldredge, 41, pleaded guilty to one charge of possession of the stimulant Adderall and agreed to testify truthful against Coldwater physician Dr.Christina Whitaker, 42, who faces multiple counts of obtaining the controlled substance by fraud. Whitaker is charged in eight felony drug cases after a Coldwater Police investigation into Adderall prescriptions she gave to others. This followed her arrest after she obtained the drug from a Hillsdale County drug [...]
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