Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Since 1854 — News from Montcalm County and Ionia County, Michigan
A male driver from DeWitt was killed Friday when he lost control of his Buick LeSabre and crashed into a Jeep Grand Cherokee.
The incident occurred at approximately 5:13 p.m., Ionia County Sheriff deputies responded to a two-car personal injury crash on S. Hubbardston Road near Parks Road.
An Edmore man pleaded no contest on Thursday to a greatly reduced charge of driving under the influence of amphetamine and striking and killing a pedestrian more than a year ago.
Randy Joel Dilday, 64, was originally charged with operating while intoxicated causing death, a possible 15-year prison felony. He wasn’t charged with a crime until more than a year after the incident occurred.
A Mulliken man was sentenced to a minimum of five and a half years in prison on Tuesday for causing the death of a Sebewa Township woman in the summer of 2021.
Gray William Smith IV, 45, pleaded no contest on Dec. 15, 2022, to operating while license suspended causing death. He was automatically convicted of being a habitual offender third offense.
A Greenville woman was killed in a two-vehicle traffic crash Friday morning.
Troopers from the Michigan State Police Lakeview Post responded to Wise Road near Youngman Road around 7:13 a.m.
Troopers from the Michigan State Police Lakeview Post are investigating a two-vehicle dirt bike crash which resulted in fatal injuries to a 52-year-old man from Howard City and serious injuries to a 31-year-old man from Lansing.
Alcohol is believed to be a factor in the incident, according to police.
A 58-year-old Alma woman was killed Monday afternoon in a three-vehicle accident near the intersection of W. Howard City-Edmore Road (M-46) and Lincoln Avenue (M-91).
An Ionia County judge set bond at $1 million for an Ionia woman who was allegedly under the influence of drugs when she plowed into a group of bicyclists riding in Michigan’s Make-A-Wish bicycle tour on Saturday, killing two and severely injuring three others.
“That almost looks real,” is what Mandy Marie Benn allegedly said as she was speaking to police and viewing the aftermath of the incident.
As a senior at Greenville High School, there may have been no student more genuinely kind-hearted and caring than Brennen Peiffer.
Upon graduating in May, celebrating his accomplishment with friends and family, it came as little surprise that Brennen’s smile would grow its largest with his parents, Jeremy and Tina, by his side.
Two motorcycles were struck by a suspected drunken driver Sunday evening, killing a woman and injuring two men.
Deputies with the Ionia County Sheriff’s Office responded to M-66 near Hall Road in Easton Township around 7:30 p.m.
A Pierson woman died and a pregnant Greenville woman was injured in a two-vehicle accident Saturday afternoon.
Troopers with the Michigan State Police Lakeview Post responded to Stanton Road and M-91 around 12:05 p.m.
