DOWAGIAC, Mich. — One student was injured when a collision in northern Cass County left a pickup truck in the ditch and a school bus on its side.

This story has been updated with the name of the man who was arrested.

FORT WAYNE (AP) — Thousands of homes and businesses were in the dark Wednesday in northeastern Indiana after waves of storms damaged trees and power lines while swamping some areas with 9 inches of rainfall.

WHITE PIGEON, Mich. — Police are asking for the public’s help in finding 13 travel trailers stolen from three storage yards around White Pigeon in the past six months.

EDWARDSBURG, Mich. — A $59.62 million ballot proposal would be used to replace two schools with a new consolidated kindergarten-through-third-grade elementary school, officials announced Tuesday.

CASSOPOLIS, Mich. — An Indiana man was killed Wednesday in a head-on collision in LaGrange Township, the Cass County Sheriff’s Office said.

UNION, Mich. — Two White Pigeon residents were killed Monday after their motorcycles were struck from behind by a passenger car.

CONSTANINE, Mich. — A single-vehicle crash on Centreville-Constantine Road killed the 21-year-old driver Tuesday but left a 1-year-old child, properly secured in the rear seat, unharmed.

THREE RIVERS, Mich. — Police were looking for 7-foot-tall Sasquatch lawn ornament stolen from a property in Park Township.

WASHINGTON — Longtime Michigan Republican U.S. Rep. Fred Upton said Tuesday he will retire from the House at the end of his term after nearly 36 years in office, ending speculation about his political future that had swirled for months.

CASSOPOLIS, Mich. — A single-vehicle crash claimed the life of a Cassopolis man Sunday.

DOWAGIAC, Mich. — Police have identified two women who died early Friday when their vehicle, stuck in a driveway during a heavy snowfall, filled with carbon monoxide and later caught fire.

DOWAGIAC, Mich. — Two people died early Friday when their vehicle, stuck in a driveway during a heavy snowfall, filled with carbon monoxide and later caught fire.

MOTTVILLE, Mich. — An Elkhart man suffered life-threatening injuries Saturday when he tried to overtake another motorist and a snow plow before losing control of his vehicle and striking a tree. 

FORT WAYNE — Indiana Michigan Power is conducting aerial inspections of high-voltage transmission lines using helicopters to inspect for damage caused by last week’s storms.

STURGIS, Mich. — Michigan State Police troopers are asking for the public’s help in their investigation of a residential burglary in Sturgis Township.

MARCELLUS, Mich. — Police have arrested a suspect in a pair of armed robberies after the thief fled the scene.

MOTTVILLE, Mich. — Two stolen camper trailers were located Wednesday and returned to their owners, police said.

EDWARDSBURG, Mich. – An Elkhart man was injured when his vehicle left the road and struck a tree Thursday in Cass County.

EDWARDSBURG, Mich. — A Dowagiac man was killed Thursday in Ontwa Township when he lost control and struck a tree after attempting to pass another vehicle.

EDWARDSBURG, Mich. — A South Bend teen was killed and four passengers from Michigan were injured in a single-vehicle crash late Friday.

UNION, Mich. — Four people were detained after the Cass County Drug Enforcement Team served a search warrant on a home in Mason Township and discovered a large amount of methamphetamine.

CASSOPOLIS, Mich. — Two people were injured Wednesday night in a head-on collision on M-62.

EDWARDSBURG, Mich. — An Elkhart woman was killed Friday in a head-on collision in Ontwa Township.

EDWARDSBURG, Mich. — Masks will be optional at Edwardsburg Public Schools when students and staff return to school next week.

EDWARDSBURG, Mich. — The Cass County Sheriff is searching for the driver in a hit-and-run crash that injured a 76-year-old man on Monday.

DOWAGIAC, Mich. — A 43-year-old South Bend woman was killed Sunday in a head-on collision on M-51.

ELKHART — A contingent of Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) employees was working to restore more than 9,900 remaining customers — down from 13,000 customers at peak — who lost electrical service Saturday and into Sunday morning after a barrage of severe storms.

ELKHART — About 1,600 customers in the Elkhart area were still without power Tuesday as utility crews worked to repair electrical lines and poles knocked down from powerful storms Sunday evening and early Monday.

ELKHART — Storms that produced heavy rain and damaging winds brought down trees and left thousands without power in Elkhart County.

EDWARDSBURG, Mich. — A Shipshewana man was hospitalized after the crop duster he was flying crashed Sunday in a wooded area north of Edwardsburg.

EDWARDSBURG, Mich. — A motorcyclist was airlifted to the hospital Monday after striking a car that turned in front of him.

MARCELLUS, Mich. — A fight between a father and son after they had been drinking resulted in a shooting late Wednesday.

EDWARDSBURG, Mich. — A 15-year-old girl was fatally shot by a 12-year-old boy in what appears to have been an accidental shooting, police said.

EDWARDSBURG, Mich. — An Elkhart woman was killed Monday in a head-on collision on U.S. 12 in Cass County’s Milton Township.

DOWAGIAC, Mich. — An Elkhart, Indiana, man was killed Saturday night and two others were injured in a collision involving three snowmobiles.

ELKHART — Crews continued their efforts to restore power after a winter ice storm caused extensive damage to equipment and disrupted service to more than 34,000 Indiana Michigan Power customers.

EDWARDSBURG, Mich. — A gun malfunction Sunday night injured two people, including an 8-year-old, according to Cass County police.

UNION, Mich. — A house fire Saturday killed two people in the 70000 block of Tharp Lake Road.

UNION, Mich. — The Cass County Sheriff’s Office was investigating a suspicious death after deputies found a woman’s body in a vehicle.

EDWARDSBURG, Mich. — Edwardsburg Public Schools will be closing face-to-face instruction at the Primary, Eagle Lake and Intermediate buildings starting Monday, saying the change to remote instruction was due to the number of ill staff members and lack of substitute teachers at these buildings.

WHITE PIGEON, Mich. — Excessive speed was blamed in a collision between two pickup trucks that killed a White Pigeon man Friday.  

WHITE PIGEON, Mich. — A 35-year-old White Pigeon man was killed Friday when his bicycle was hit by a pickup truck in Constantine Township.

SHIPSHEWANA — Three people suspected in an auto-theft spree face attempted murder charges after slamming into police vehicles and leading officers on a high-speed chase that ended in a crash that killed a horse and with an officer firing his weapon. 

CASSOPOLIS, Mich. — A fatal crash in Cass County late Monday was being blamed on speed and freshly applied chip-and-seal coating on the roadway.