The Branch County Prosecutor’s Office says it will not file charges after a double murder suspect was shot and killed following a police chase in 2023.

The incident, which took place on June 12, is still under investigation by the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office.

BRANCH COUNTY—After analyzing cases sent to his office, Prosecutor Zack Stempien said 2024 the lowest crime rate in his four years as elected prosecutor. There was a 16% drop in felonies when ...

Branch County Prosecutor Zack Stempien warned that criminal prosecution would suffer without more funding for his office. Stempien made his plea Thursday morning to the county commission work session.

Two people, including a juvenile, were arrested and charged on Monday, June 30 with a fatal shooting on Long Branch that ...

The Branch County prosecutor says additional charges, including three counts of stalking, have been filed against a Coldwater man who allegedly hit two people with his truck on purpose.

Authorities say that 18-year-old Dwayne Exilus and a juvenile are accused in the death of 18-year-old Chrystofer Whyte, of ...

Branch County Prosecutor Zack Stempien found St. Joseph Count deputies were justified shooting David Algarin August 6, 2023, because he presented "A credible and significant threat at the time of ...

At 11:33 p.m., Long Branch police responded to a stabbing on the 200 block of Broadway and found Eren Kurkcu with multiple stab wounds, Monmouth County Prosecutor Raymond Santiago said.

A male was shot dead at a housing community in Long Branch Sunday, the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office said. The shooting occurred at 12 p.m. on Garret Drive in the John R. Lewis Commons, a ...

Alex New, 55, from Branch County, was convicted of sexually assaulting a minor after being extradited from Florida to ...