October 26, 2012
Damage from a southwest Michigan apartment complex fire believed to have been sparked by a resident trying to cook a squirrel with a propane torch is estimated at $1.4 million. Debra Spohn, senior vice president of the apartment complex’s parent …
October 11, 2012
Northern Indiana and southwest Michigan have a new tool when it comes to sniffing out arson. Sadie, a 16-month-old Labrador mix, recently completed training standards at the Maine Criminal Justice Academy and will be certified as an accelerant detection canine …
April 18, 2012
A devastating frost in southwestern Michigan has killed thousands of acres of grapes grown for juice, the latest crop casualty in an unpredictable spring that began with temperatures in the 80s. A surveyor for National Grape Cooperative, better known as …