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Logging truck overturns, causing road closure.

April 24, 2019

Logging truck overturns, causing road closure. AMBER TOWNSHIP – A Malburg Forest Product logging truck overturned while attempting a left turn from US 10 onto the US 31 bypass Tuesday, April 23, shortly after 5 p.m., causing the US 31 bypass to be closed for two and a half hours, according to Mason County Sheriff Kim Cole. No one was…

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Sheriff’s report.

April 23, 2019

Sheriff’s report. #MasonCountyCrime The following is activity of the Mason County Sheriff’s Office Monday, April 22, 2019: 7 a.m., car/deer crash, no injury, Treml Road east of Custer Road, Free Soil Township. 7:02 a.m., car/deer crash, no injury, Johnson Road east of LaSalle Road, Amber Township. 10:33 a.m., ​a 22-year-old Ludington man was cited for driving while license suspended following…

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Man arrested for drunk driving after going 110 mph on US 10.

April 22, 2019

#MasonCountyCrime Man arrested for drunk driving after going 110 mph on US 10. AMBER TOWNSHIP – A 37-year-old Ludington man was arrested for operating while intoxicated Saturday, April 20, shortly after 2 a.m. on US 10 near Brye Road after a Mason County sheriff’s deputy clocked his vehicle at 110 mph in a 55-mph zone, according to Mason County Sheriff…

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Military friend of murder suspect ‘shocked’ by allegations.

April 18, 2019

Military friend of murder suspect ‘shocked’ by allegations. #MasonCountyNews By Allison Scarbrough, Editor. LUDINGTON — A man who served in the National Guard with now murder suspect Corey Ryan Beekman in Afghanistan during 2011 and 2012 said he finds the allegations “quite shocking.” Beekman, 32, of Free Soil Township, has been charged with open murder in the shooting death of…

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Free Soil Twp. man charged with murder following shooting death.

April 17, 2019

Free Soil Twp. man charged with murder following shooting death. #MasonCountyNews. By Rob Alway, Editor-in-Chief. LUDINGTON — Corey Ryan Beekman, 32, of 10550 N. US 31, Free Soil Township was arraigned today in Mason County’s 79th District Court on open murder charges, and three other counts, in connection to a shooting incident that took place Tuesday, April 16, at his…

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