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Police news, published Jan. 30, 2025

January 30, 2025

The police news is a presentation of Smith & Eddy Insurance, serving west Michigan since 1902, smith-eddy.com. The following is Mason County Sheriff’s Office activity Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025: 5:39 a.m., car/deer crash, no injury, US 31 freeway north of Oceana Drive, Summit Township. 10:58 a.m., a 39-year-old Idlewild man was arrested on a felony larceny warrant issued in Lake…

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Community Foundation launches $5 million campaign

January 29, 2025

LUDINGTON — The Community Foundation for Mason County has launched The Campaign for Mason County: Building a Stronger Community Together, a $5 million fundraising effort that aspires to meet Mason County’s urgent needs and opportunities by tripling the Community Foundation’s grant making capacity. Hamlin Township residents Lee and Joan Schoenherr have pledged $1 million towards the campaign. The Community Foundation…

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Man rejects plea offer in fentanyl death case 

January 29, 2025

By Allison Scarbrough, News Editor LUDINGTON — A 32-year-old Oceana County man facing multiple charges in Mason County’s 51st Circuit Court, including delivery of a controlled substance causing death, rejected a plea offer Tuesday, Jan. 28, of serving a minimum of just over 19 years in prison. Travis Michael Gale, who is lodged in the Mason County Jail on a…

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Man pleads no contest in stabbing case

January 29, 2025

By Allison Scarbrough, News Editor LUDINGTON — A 21-year-old Manistee man pleaded no contest in Mason County’s 51st Circuit Court Tuesday, Jan. 28, to assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder. Derrick Allen Henton stabbed Nathan Horacek of Mason County at a house party in the 500 block of Emily Street in Ludington last June. Horacek,…

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LPD news, published Jan. 29, 2025

January 29, 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, Jan. 28, 2025: 11:02 p.m., a 36-year-old Ludington man was arrested on a felony warrant issued by Muskegon County’s 60th District Court for failure to pay child support, 300 block of South…

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