COLDWATER — More evidence of crystal meth was located in Coldwater during an investigation by Coldwater Police April 4.Officers went to a location to talk to Daniel Powell, 43, after he was reported using the drug. Officers spotted two baggies with crystal meth shards inside. Drug tests confirmed the suspicions. Powell was not arrested until Monday on the 10-year felony. Bond was set at $10,0000.Because Powell has a conviction from 2014 [...]
More crystal meth found in region
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Board tables contracts, adopts budget
QUINCY — The Quincy Community School Board voted Monday night to table the approval of all 11 administrative contracts for next school year until its attorney Robert Huber could review them. The main concern was those for Superintendent Craig Artist and Quincy High School Principal David Spalding, under investigation for alleged failure to report suspicions to state authorities of sexual abuse of a student by former drama teacher and school technology director [...]
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Conagra pairs with non-profit to fight hunger
QUINCY – On Friday, employees from Conagra Foods in Quincy — and their family members — partnered with Kids Coalition Against Hunger to bag and box 20,000 meals to feed starving kids at home and abroad.A brochure for the 501©(3) states that “Every day 14,500 children under the age of 12 die from hunger related diseases.”Conagra and KCAH are united in a desire to bring that number down to zero.“It’s important for [...]
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LIGHT LUNCH: No shorts allowed, so boys wear skirts to school
Boys at a British high school have found a novel way around strict uniform rules banning shorts, as the country swelters through a heatwave.
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Ron Howard takes helm of Han Solo 'Star Wars' film
Lucasfilm announced their replacement director Thursday, two days after Lord and Miller left the project over creative differences. Howard gives the reeling production a veteran hand in the wake of Lord and Miller's exit in the midst of shooting.
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Senate GOP releases bill to cut Medicaid, alter 'Obamacare'
The bill would provide tax credits to help people buy insurance. It would also let states get waivers to ignore some coverage standards that "Obamacare" requires of insurers.
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Trump on Twitter: There are no tapes
President Donald Trump has tweeted that he did not make tapes of his conversations with James Comey.
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GOP opposition imperils Senate health care bill
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky says he and three other Republican senators are preparing to announced their opposition to the Senate health care bill as it's written.
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Judges affirm 'Making a Murderer' confession was coerced
Brendan Dassey was sentenced to life in prison in 2007 in photographer Teresa Halbach's death on Halloween two years earlier. Dassey told detectives he helped his uncle, Steven Avery, rape and kill Halbach in the Avery family's Manitowoc County salvage yard. Avery was sentenced to life in a separate trial.
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North Korea denies torturing American detainee Otto Warmbier
The article published by the official Korean Central News Agency on Friday was Pyongyang's first reaction to the death of Otto Warmbier. North Korea released him last week for what it described as humanitarian reasons and he died Monday in a U.S. hospital. His family and others have blamed North Korea for his condition.
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RISE: Bombing in Pakistan; new Hollywood stars; Cindy moves inland
A powerful car bombing near the office of the provincial police chief in southwestern Pakistan on Friday killed 11 people and wounded 20, officials said.
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Coldwater Farmers Market kicks off with pancake breakfast
COLDWATER — Starting this Saturday, and every Saturday morning running up till the Saturday before Apple Fest (Sept. 10), downtown Coldwater will come alive with 3rd Annual Corner Farmers' Market.The Market will be held from 9 a.m. till 1 p.m. on the main Four Corners Park in Coldwater with the first market having a pancake breakfast with pancake mix donated by Star of the West Milling and sausage donated by Clemens Food Group and all of the proceeds going to the Branch County [...]
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Broadway Street Bridge open for travel
UNION CITY— After almost four months of construction the Broadway Street Bridge, located in downtown Union City, has officially reopened for business.Throughout much of the winter months, residents of the Village have taken various detours to cross town as the construction of the main bridge, through the village, slowly began to take shape.The $1.5 million project, paid for by a grant obtained by the village, finished ahead of schedule despite some minor delays [...]
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North Korea says it's 'biggest victim' in US student's death
The North's official Korean Central News Agency denied that North Korea cruelly treated or tortured Otto Warmbier and accused the United States and South Korea of a smear campaign that insulted what it called its "humanitarian" treatment of him.
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Sheppard to take over the BCUW
COLDWATER — For the last nine years, Branch County United Way Executive Director Judy Krzeminski has taken the non profit organization to a whole new level in the community with the heavily attended Living Color Living United 5K, Power of the Purse, just to name a few.“After nine years together, I firmly believe that even through some very difficult campaign years, we are doing the best work we have ever done as a United Way. Where we are now is a much stronger position [...]
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No action at special Quincy School Board meeting Thursday
QUINCY — Quincy Community School’s Board of Education members gathered Thursday afternoon for a special meeting to deal with the 11 administrative contracts for next school year, but then decided action could wait. Board Secretary Donna Hines, who had rushed back from Lansing, explained the special meeting was called because the board thought it had to act on the contracts “before June 30 or we could not do anything. But we found out that is not [...]
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Trump suggests he was trying to keep FBI director honest
In an interview that aired Friday on "Fox & Friends," Trump said: "When he found out that I, you know, that there may be tapes out there, whether it's governmental tapes or anything else, and who knows, I think his story may have changed."
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LIGHT LUNCH: Kind act spreads to 167 drivers at Indiana McDonald's
A customer's act of kindness at a southern Indiana McDonald's sparked a chain reaction of niceness in its drive-thru line.
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Analysis: Health bill test of McConnell's leadership skills
The shrewd Kentuckian has made himself practically the sole arbiter of the bill and will be largely responsible for the outcome, whether it's a win, a loss, or a win that turns into a loss over time as unpopular consequences of the legislation take hold.
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Total solar eclipse 1st in 99 years to sweep width of US
Total solar eclipses occur every year or two or three, often in the middle of nowhere like the South Pacific or Antarctic. What makes this one so special — at least for Americans — is that it will cut diagonally across the entire United States.
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