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Michigan’s oldest county fair will wait one more year to continue their tradition in Marshall.

This is all the basic mask wearing/physical distancing you've come to expect when attending an event mid-pandemic, but it's helpful to get a rundown of what to expect before you attend.

Common Sense Tip to Beat the Heat

Alert is for Tuesday July 7th; possibly longer

WWMT is reporting it appears an arrest has been made in the case. The station reports the suspected perpetrator is Kalamazoo area resident Joshua Wessel.

27-year-old Julice Haggery of Battle Creek has been arrested as an accessory after the fact and for lying to police.

The city is facilitating the closing of a section of downtown sidewalk to allow artists supporting Black Lives Matter to cover the sidewalk with BLM related messaging.

The hits keep coming in 2020. Next up on the list of things to be worried about is a tick-borne disease that mimics the symptoms of COVID-19.

The Battle Creek Fire Department was busy during the long holiday weekend responding to three separate residential blazes during intense heat.

The monthly turn of the calendar puts us in July 2020 and the preparations for the upcoming school year continue after schools shut down in March.

We will be hosting all of your favorite LOCAL Ribfest vendors at Gull Meadow Farms for a Food Truck event on Saturday, July 18th from 3:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.

Now we hear the state has sent overpayments to about 3,000 residents to the tune of over eight million dollars. The state Unemployment Insurance Agency vows it will get the money back.

At a little after 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon, two people were struck by a boat near the southwest shore of the lake, just outside the bay near West Gull Lake Drive and Shoal Avenue.

If fully one-third of Michigan parents do end up keeping their kids from schools as indicated by the survey, that could mean about one half million Michigan K-12 students won’t be attending.

No shirt, no shoes, no mask; no service.

On average, many of the tests we have in Michigan produce results within 24 to 48 hours after a sample is received. But Beaumont Hospital on Michigan's east side has just come up with a test which gives results in under an hour.