Belleville Police Chief Hal Berriman said his police department will arrest and arraign Samuel Hamilton, 17, of Ypsilanti, on charges of possession of a stolen vehicle, resisting arrest, and fleeing[…]
On the front page of the Jan. 26 issue of the Independent, we published the 2016 police wages for Van Buren Township. Included in the list was Carrie A. Traster,[…]
Channel 2 Fox News in Detroit must have been tipped off that something was going to happen at 34th District Court on Feb. 22 because its cameraman was there in[…]
Arndola Charles Lewis, 44, a black male of Van Buren Township, was bound over to circuit court for a March 1 arraignment on the information on charges of homicide, possession[…]
Joshua Lee Morris, 24, will face a charge of reckless death for driving the car that crashed and killed his friend Marcus McIntosh, 21, in 2014. 34th District Court Chief[…]
The Van Buren Public Schools Board of Education took advantage of an offer from Van Buren Township officials to participate in the paving of McBride Avenue at a cost of[…]
In a front-page story last week, the Independent said Donald Hazel Swinson, 76, was in Nelson Po’s yard in Sumpter Township when Swinson pulled a handgun on Po. Po has[…]
Van Buren Township is proposing 12 new ordinances that premier communities enforce in order to make VBT a premier community. Supervisor Kevin McNamara sent the ordinances that have to do[…]
Ariel Banks, daughter of Elizabeth and Don Banks of Sumpter Township, has been named to the Schoolcraft College Dean’s List for the Fall 2016 Semester. To receive this honor, a[…]
The following students from Belleville have been named to the dean’s list at Western Michigan University for the Fall 2016 semester: • Corey Kalitta, studying Aviation Management and Operations in[…]