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LPD report, published Jan. 3, 2025

January 3, 2025

The police news is a presentation of Smith & Eddy Insurance, serving west Michigan since 1902, smith-eddy.com. The following is recent activity of the Ludington Police Department: Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2024: 1:47 p.m., a 35-year-old Ludington man was arrested for public intoxication and a failure-to-appear criminal bench warrant issued by Kent County’s 61st District Court, South James and Dowland streets,…

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Winter weather advisory begins at 4 a.m. Friday

January 2, 2025

UPDATE: THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 1 A.M. SATURDAY, JAN. 4, 2025 The National Weather Service issued a winter weather advisory for west Michigan, including Mason County, for Friday, Jan. 3, from 4 a.m. to 7 p.m. Total snow accumulations between 1 and 4 inches are expected with “locally higher amounts possible in lake effect bands.”  …

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51st Circuit Court sentencings, published Dec. 20, 2024

December 20, 2024

By Allison Scarbrough, News Editor LUDINGTON — The following were sentenced recently in Mason County’s 51st Circuit Court: – Lige Lewis Holder, 23, pleaded guilty May 21 to possession of heroin, cocaine or another narcotic and methamphetamine/ecstasy possession in two separate files. He pleaded guilty Nov. 12 to two more counts of methamphetamine/ecstasy possession in two separate files. Holder was…

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Drivers injured in two-vehicle crash

December 20, 2024

The police news is a presentation of Smith & Eddy Insurance, serving west Michigan since 1902, smith-eddy.com. AMBER TOWNSHIP — A 64-year-old Ludington woman and a 48-year-old Baldwin man, both of whom were drivers, received non-life-threatening injuries following a two-vehicle crash Thursday, Dec. 19, shortly before 3 p.m. on US 10 east of Dennis Road, according to Mason County Sheriff…

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Winter weather advisory issued

December 19, 2024

MASON COUNTY — A winter weather advisory is in effect beginning at 4 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 19, until 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 20. The National Weather Services has issued the advisory for Mason, Oceana, Lake, Osceola, Clare, Newaygo, Mecosta and Isabella counties Snow accumulations between 2 and 4  inches are expected. _________________________________ Please Support Local News Receive daily MCP and…

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