Category Archives: Local News
Director Named for New Full-Time Ottawa Co. Vets Board
OLIVE TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Jan. 7, 2024) - A natural impulse for someone who gets a new job is to crow about it before it's made official. That seems to be the case for Jason Schenkel, as the 50-year...
Jan 07, 2024 Jason Schenkel, Director of Ottawa County Department of Veterans Affairs (photo courtesy Ottawa County, Michigan)
String of Larcenies Reported South of Allegan Co.
PAW PAW, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Jan. 5, 2024) - If and when the Van Buren County Sheriff's Office get its hands on the perpetrator or perpetrators involved in a series of crimes during the early morning hour...
Jan 05, 2024 Sheriff's Department Investigation (image courtesy Van Buren County Sheriff's Department)
Active Shooter Class, Law Enforcement Awareness Set in Background of Recent Iowa School Shooting
ALLEGAN, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Jan. 5, 2024) - It took only four days for the reality of life in 2024 to be made painfully aware for all in these United States. Police confirm a sixth grade student is dead ...
Jan 05, 2024 Allegan County Sheriff Frank Baker (photo Gary Stevens, Midwest communications)
Hopkins Man Sentenced for Stealing $$$ From Gun Lake Casino
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Jan. 3, 2023) - It's considered by many to be tough enough to walk out of the Gun Lake Casino as a winner, but for a 26-year-old Hopkins man, an effort to get money out o...
Jan 03, 2024 The Gun Lake Tribe (image courtesy the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Tribe of Pottawatomi Indians)
Construction Machinery Taken from Grand Junction Road Work Site
COLUMBIA TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Jan. 3, 2023) - A roadside construction project east of South Haven was victimized by a burglary on Wednesday. According to the Van Buren County Sheriff's Office, a pers...
Jan 03, 2024 A workside trailer similar to one taken on Jan. 3, 2024. (photo courtesy Van Buren Co. Sheriff's Office)
UPDATE: One Teen Arraigned in New Year's Stabbing of Another Teen in Violent House Party Near GVSU Campus
ALLENDALE TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Jan. 3, 2024) - An 18-year-old Allendale man has been arraigned on charges stemming from a New Year's morning incident near the GVSU campus that wounded a 17-year-old b...
Jan 03, 2024
Car Vs. Building In Georgetown
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Jan. 3, 2023) - At approximately 10:18AM Wednesday, January 3, the Ottawa County Sheriff's Office and medical first responders were dispatched to a car vs building at the addr...
Jan 03, 2024 Ottawa Co. Sheriff's Dept. Vehicle (image courtesy Ottawa County Sheriff's Dept.)
Ottawa Co. Probate Judge Mark Feyen to Retire
GRAND HAVEN, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Jan. 3, 2023) - There will be a new 20th Circuit Court Probate Judge in 2025. On Wednesday, the court office in Grand Haven announced that Mark Feyen will not seek reelect...
Jan 03, 2024 20th Circuit Court Probate Court Judge Mark Feyen (photo courtesy 20th Circuit Court)
Holland City Council to Hold First Meeting of 2024 Tonight
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Jan. 3, 2023) - The Holland City Council has a relatively light agenda on Wednesday night for its first business meeting of the New Year. Among the items on the consent list t...
Jan 03, 2024 Holland City Hall, 2021. Peg McNichol/MWC Radio
Holland Man Accepts Plea Deal in Cannon Death
GRAND HAVEN, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Jan. 3, 2023) - A 37-year-old Holland man will be sentenced to no more than a year behind bars after pleading guilty on Tuesday to involuntary manslaughter charges stemmin...
Jan 03, 2024 Anthony Jon Meyer (photo courtesy Ottawa Co. Sheriff's Dept.)
