WSJM Morning News – January 8, 2018

  • A surprise plea in Kalamazoo.
  • Authorities need help finding a 14-year-old Watervliet girl.
  • Local governments around the country are starting to feel the pinch from the partial shutdown of the federal government.
  • The brawl that resulted in the cancelation of the varsity boys basketball game on December 21 between South Haven and Paw Paw is costing South Haven another game.
  • Protections for the LGBT community put in place in the waning days of the Snyder administration are being expanded.
  • Those interested in the medical and recreational marijuana issues in the city of South Haven are invited to attend a special meeting next Monday night.
  • Officials say another round of testing at residential wells in southwestern Michigan found no presence of a previously detected harmful manufacturing byproduct — known as dioxin.
  • To many at the big C-E-S technology show in Las Vegas, self driving cars are new and exciting.
  • The partial shutdown of our government is being felt at the airport-where some security screeners are calling in sick and air traffic controllers worry about equipment breakdowns.
  • Another critical day for the future of Sears.
  • A toilet transformer?