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14 persons arrested during St. Joseph County drug and weapons bust
LOCKPORT TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) - 14 people were arrested including a man who was wanted for a Kalamazoo County homicide during a Sunday drugs and weapons bust in St. Joseph County. Deputies executed a s...
Feb 28, 2023 Daniel / CC
Bad weather slows Consumers restoration efforts, outage numbers go back up
JACKSON, MI (WTVB) - The cold and wet weather slowed restoration efforts by over 600 Consumers Energy crews, contractors, and line workers from outside Michigan on Monday. Those who have been without ...
Feb 27, 2023 Photo courtesy of Consumer's Energy
Man charged after Friday night stabbing incident on Coldwater's north side
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - A Coldwater man has been charged following a Michigan State Police investigation into a stabbing incident near the north city limits of Coldwater Friday night. According to Bran...
Feb 27, 2023 Chris Potter / CC
Five days after ice storm, over 1,500 Consumer's customers in Branch County still in the dark
JACKSON, MI (WTVB) - About 38,000 Consumers Energy customers were still without power as of 5:00 a.m. Monday morning after a major ice storm went through South Central Michigan last Wednesday afternoo...
Feb 27, 2023 Photo courtesy of Consumer's Energy
Baker says Wednesday ice storm knocked out power to over 850 CBPU customers
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Coldwater City Manager Keith Baker says in his report for Monday's City Council meeting that the ice storm that hit Coldwater and the surrounding areas last Wednesday led to mor...
Feb 26, 2023
Over 3,300 Consumer's Energy customers in Branch County still without power on Sunday
BRANCH COUNTY, MI (WTVB) - Consumer's Energy issued a statement on Sunday morning which said restoration work will be completed on Monday as over 600 Consumers Energy crews, contractors and lineworker...
Feb 26, 2023 Courtesy Consumer's Energy
Consumers Energy aims to be halfway through power restoration Saturday morning
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Consumers Energy said in a press release Friday that they expected to have power restored to half of all its customers affected by Wednesday's ice storm by Saturday morning, and...
Feb 25, 2023 Photo courtesy Consumers Energy
"Wrongly convicted" man released from prison in Coldwater after 21 years behind bars
COLDWATER, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – A Kalamazoo man who the State of Michigan now says was wrongly convicted of a double murder 21 years ago was released from the Lakeland Correctional Facility in Cold...
Feb 24, 2023
Consumers Energy says crews making progress in all-hands-on-deck restoration after major ice storm
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) - Consumers Energy says they have restored power to thousands, but over 180,000 remain without electricity this morning after Wednesday's ice storm. Over 450 crews will be involve...
Feb 24, 2023 (courtesy Consumers Energy)
Consumers Energy crews begin restoring power after Wednesday's ice storm, over 215,000 outages reported
JACKSON, MI (WTVB) - Consumers Energy reported at midday on Thursday they have restored more than 21,000 customers after an ice storm caused extensive damage across the state Wednesday night and Thurs...
Feb 23, 2023 Photo courtesy of Consumers Energy Facebook page
