WSJM Morning News – January 23, 2019

  • South Haven’s former finance director will be facing criminal and civil charges.
  • Congressman Fred Upton is back in Washington as the U.S. House tries to organize for its new session.
  • The Coast Guard invited reporters out to watch ice rescue training in the St. Joseph River on Tuesday.
  • A Benton Harbor man is facing charges following a two-vehicle head-on crash in Van Buren County on January 12 that killed a 6-year-old girl and a 73-year-old woman.
  • A new treatment center for people struggling with an addiction is open in southwest Michigan.
  • Three Michigan men have been arrested for conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq, or ISIS.
  • A big investment in self driving cars coming to southeast Michigan.
  • Legislative efforts to put an end to the partial government shutdown are likely to fall short on Thursday.
  • At the tail end of a deep freeze – some Rhode Island residents have no heat.
  • Singer Chris Brown has been detained in Paris after a rape complaint.