BERRIEN COUNTY COURT NEWS
NILES – A Niles man who hit his mother in the head with a hammer in early May outside JD’s Truck Stop on U.S. 12 was sentenced to prison in Berrien County Trial Court this […]
Legal News
MEDICAL MARIJUANA LAWS INDUCE CHANGES TO LOCAL ORDINANCES
As the calendar moves closer to the December date when businesses can start applying for new medical marijuana facilities licenses in Michigan, area municipalities are continuing work on new ordinances allowing medical marijuana facilities in […]
QUESTIONABLE FINANCIAL IMPROPRIETIES COST FORMER LANDFILL MANAGER HIS JOB
BUCHANAN – There are still more questions than answers, but the Southeast Berrien County Landfill Authority Board has terminated General Manager Sonny Fuller amid questions of financial improprieties. Board members confirmed last week that internal […]
RE-SENTENCING BOBBY GENE GRIFFIN IN BERRIEN COUNTY’S OLDEST “JUVENILE LIFER” CASE
ST. JOSEPH – Another of Berrien County’s “juvenile lifers” has been resentenced in Berrien County Trial Court. Former Benton Harbor resident Bobby Gene Griffin was resentenced last week and is expected to soon be released […]
BERRIEN AND CASS COUNTY COURTHOUSE NEWS
Recent court action in Berrien and Cass counties include sentencings, a guilty plea from a Benton Harbor man in a murder trial and a trial date set in the Alex Perez double homicide case. Perez, […]