BERRIEN COUNTY ELECTION RESULTS 2016
By DEBRA HAIGHT ST. JOSEPH – We didn’t only elect a new president and Congress last week, several area races were decided as was Lake Michigan College’s capital millage proposal. After all was said and […]
Legal News
$100,000 SMCAS EMBEZZLEMENT TRIAL BEGINS
By DEBRA HAIGHT NILES – The embezzlement trial of former Southwestern Michigan Community Ambulance Service Executive Director Timothy Gray began last week in Berrien County Trial Court and was expected to continue most of this […]
BERRIEN COUNTY COURT UPDATES
By DEBRA HAIGHT BCR Correspondent ST. JOSEPH – News came last week on a number of fronts related to the July courthouse shooting that left two bailiffs and an assailant dead. That incident made national […]
BERRIEN COUNTY TRIAL COURT NEWS
By DEBRA HAIGHT NILES – A former Niles resident is going back to prison after being convicted of criminal sexual conduct. Anthony Berwyn Holmes, 37, now of Evansville, Ind., pleaded guilty to third-degree criminal sexual […]
LOCAL OFFICIALS RECEIVE STATEWIDE HONORS
By DEBRA HAIGHT Two Berrien County officials have recently received statewide honors. Sheriff Paul Bailey was elected vice president of the Michigan Sheriffs’ Association, while Register of Deeds Lori Jarvis was named the 2016 Register […]