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Silent sirens worry residents (June 11, 2010)
After the series of tornados wreaked devastation across the southwestern corner of Michigan, having come off Lake Michigan and thus providing little warning, many residents expressed concern there had actually been no warning. Why didn't the sirens alert those along the coast until after the tornado had passed?
Husband charged in wife's slaying (June 24, 2010)
Two months after his wife's disappearance, authorities charged Douglas Stewart with her murder, despite not having yet recovered Venus Stewart's body.
Impersonator sought in missing woman case (June 03, 2010)
Three weeks before arresting Douglas Stewart for his wife's murder, authorities investigated his alibi of being in Virginia the night of her disappearance. Evidence suggested Stewart paid an accomplice to make transactions in his name in Virginia, while he was actually in Michigan.
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Bugsy the pig will be safe (May 20, 2010)
After years of broken and aged pens allowing farm animals to escape and run free at the Berrien County Youth Fair, the Ironworkers Local 292 made 96 new steel pens free of charge, instead using the project as experience for apprentices.
Following my sophomore year at Notre Dame, I lucked into an internship with The South Bend Tribune. The internship forced me out of my comfort zone of sports reporting as I fine-tuned my newsman skills as a reporter in the paper's Michigan Department.
During those 11 weeks of driving through the cornfields of southwestern Michigan, I grew familiar with the various County Boards of Commissioners and School Boards, a number of high school principals either concluding their careers or just beginning them, and the other intricacies of small-town life I had never relished in my own peculiar hometown.
Residents escape tornado (June 08, 2010)
When a tornado struck Dowagiac, Mich., on a late Saturday night, Mitch Hessinger was closing his garage door. His mother had just thrown in the towel on an episode of "Saturday Night Live," and his sister was heading toward bed. For each, those routine — instinctive even — decisions saved their life, though not the garage, the TV or the bedroom.