Someone posted about the co-op program earlier this morning.
By noon, Gull Lake confirmed for the first time that the head coach has resigned as state police investigate three alleged assaults that happened during a camp in June with police saying the case involved members of the team.
The coach was placed on non-disciplinary administrative leave.
There’s been long infighting leading up to three resignations that will leave the board one member away from not having a quorum.
PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — The Plainfield Township Board of Trustees has called a special meeting Friday amid concerns about a post on a trustee’s social media — a post he told News 8 he did not make.
The post attributed to the Facebook account of Plainfield Township Trustee Bob Reminga called for violence against Muslims.
On Thursday night, Reminga denied ever making the post and said he was working to find out how it ended up on his page. He said he didn’t know how it happened and added he believes it was photoshopped.
“The first I saw it was today,” he told News 8.
Reminga said he was completely unaware of the post until News 8 spoke with him Thursday. When the post was shown to him, he said he would work “to get to the bottom of it” and reiterated he didn’t know it ended up on his page.
“I’m going to make a complaint with Facebook and see … I also have that other account that I can’t get rid of,” he said.
The dozens of tents that lined N. Edwards Street are gone following a notice issued Monday afternoon to leave by Thursday at 2 PM or risk being trespassed.
By 4, only a street sweeper made its passes up and down the road.
From earlier this week: https://www.woodtv.com/news/kalamazoo-county/kzoo-homeless-encampment-slated-for-removal-as-residents-raise-complaints/
Homeless encampment along N. Edwards Street is set to be cleared after Thursday afternoon.
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — Along northern Edward Street, tents are huddled together along the sidewalks, representing a home for some and a sign of blight for others. Laminated cards zip-tied to the tents appeared early this week warning residents to vacate the sidewalks by Thursday.
Kelli Buckout is used to the evictions; she’s been homeless for three years.
“I just lost most of everything I own, because I couldn’t move it all fast enough,” she told News 8. I’m 65 years old and I’m disabled and they expect me to move like on a dime and I can’t do that. I can’t do that. So, I just lost lots of everything I did.”
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — Kalamazoo City Commissioners are planning to review a data center moratorium resolution during its next meeting.
The move comes nearly two months after residents packed a city commission meeting with concerns that a former cannabis facility was pitched as a potential site for a data center.
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — An East Lansing Police Department officer is on paid administrative leave, and the department is investigating the arrest of a 20-year-old woman in front of Harper’s Restaurant and Brew Pub.
Video taken by Taylor Drozdowski and posted to social media has caused outrage. The video shows multiple officers involved in arresting Myana Collins. She’s tased, handcuffed and carried down the stairs of the popular East Lansing bar. She then falls to the ground, where officers appear to pile on top of her. At one point an officer appears to punch Collins, who is laying on her stomach in handcuffs, in the back multiple times.
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Lansing Police Internal Affairs is investigating the improper release of the identities of “several” juveniles to a Clinton County Commissioner, a spokeswoman told 6 News Investigates.
The investigation stems from the release of the names of juveniles involved in the May 30 possession of a gun stolen from Clinton County Sheriff Sean Dush’s vehicle in St Johns.
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — The murders of two teenagers in June are being pursued as “gang related,” Ingham County’s Prosecutor told 6 News Investigates Thursday morning.
Dewane said that the murders on June 5 in Frances Park and June 29 in St. Joseph Park “we believe that to be gang related.”
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — After a Kalamazoo County sheriff’s deputy withheld evidence tied to a fatal shooting for two years, leading to murder charges being dropped and a suspect walking free, the family of the man who was killed is demanding accountability.
The family of 21-year-old Davion Johnson, who was shot to death in July 2023, said they spent months requesting the internal report from the sheriff’s office with no response. A Freedom of Information Act request for the report made by News 8 was the first time they said they got to see the results.
Davion Johnson’s father Randy Johnson said family was told about the new audio evidence that ultimately led to charges being dropped against the man officials accused of shooting his son just as closing arguments were set to start.