Updated: 3:54 AM A local school is selling surplus equipment this week -- everything from desks and computers to lawn care equipment.

Posted: 3:32 AM The Niles Fire Department has been awarded nearly a million dollars to help improve its operations.

Posted: 3:29 AM A Michiana company has been named among the top 50 entrepreneurial businesses in the state of Michigan.

Posted: 9:26 PM A convicted killer from Detroit has been captured in Ohio, a month after he cut his electronic monitor and fled.

Posted: 7:24 PM Second graders at Merritt Elementary in Niles spent part of their day in court.

Updated: 11:45 AM This warmer weather means more and more people are buying plants to beautify their gardens, but there is a deadly mildew killing one in particular that you need to worry about, the impatiens.

Updated: 4:23 PM The state says Michigan's unemployment rate dipped slightly in April as the number of people working rose while the number of jobless people fell.

Posted: 4:18 PM Detroit Mayor Dave Bing says he won't seek a second term as leader of the financially troubled city.

Posted: 3:34 PM Officials say a 1-year-old Michigan girl died after being struck by a falling television over the weekend.

Updated: 7:31 PM Police are trying to track down the person who dumped a mother dog and 17 puppies along a road near Indiana Dunes in Porter County.

Posted: 1:19 PM Gov. Rick Snyder says the state-appointed emergency manager for Detroit's public schools has decided to postpone his plans to step down by up to six months.

Updated: 11:44 AM The leader of a band of scrap metal thieves in Milton Township, Cass County, faces up to life in prison.

Posted: 7:10 AM Two teenagers are safely home in Dowagiac after running away on Monday.

Updated: 7:33 AM Firefighters are calling a fire that occurred in Benton Township this weekend “suspicious.”

Posted: 6:58 AM A Nappanee store that's been around for 45 years is closing.

Posted: 9:44 PM A western Michigan man found with a bloody mattress in his pickup truck nearly two years ago has been charged with murder.

Posted: 7:49 AM Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder is preparing to sign legislation so veterans can get a special designation on their driver's license or state ID card.

Posted: 7:45 AM A former Mr. Blossomtime will spend the next two months in jail, finishing out a six-month sentence for drunk driving and falsely reporting a felony.

Posted: 7:10 AM Police have determined that two structure fires in Niles this winter were criminal arson.

Posted: 6:59 AM Click It or Ticket messages will appear on TV, cable, radio and Internet sites as well as billboards.

Posted: 10:06 PM Maryland State Police say they found 40 pounds of marijuana in a man's minivan troopers pulled over on Interstate 70.

Updated: 10:46 PM The new Saint Joseph city manager will be chosen on Thursday.

Updated: 11:42 PM A Michigan congressman says a nuclear power plant in the southwest portion of the state should remain closed until safety issues are addressed.

Posted: 4:10 PM The first report by Detroit's emergency manager declares that the city is broke and at risk of running completely out of money - a financial meltdown that could mean no paychecks for workers, no pension benefits and even deeper cuts in services.

Updated: 4:47 PM Ranks of hundreds of uniformed firefighters have turned out for the funeral Mass is planned for a 29-year-old colleague who died in a blaze at a Detroit-area strip mall.