Saginaw sophomore Jeff Wegner dreams of one day owning a cooler that always stays cold.
West Branch junior Nick Fox images being able to drive a car that never needs the gas to be refilled.

Mount Pleasant residents who love the flavor of Biggby Coffee will soon have two locations to choose from.

A new Biggby Coffee will open Wednesday at 210 S. Mission St., in the north half of the old Isabella County Credit Union building.

Owner Matthew Taylor said he is excited to start business and that his operating philosophy is designed to ensure that every customer leaves the store in a better mood than when they first walked in.

A 19-year-old Central Michigan University student could be facing prison time in connection to a hit-and-run accident Sunday morning.
Matthew Allen Grinzinger, a Mount Pleasant freshman, is facing five charges resulting from the incident.

According to the Isabella County Sheriff’s Department, a 25-year-old Mount Pleasant female was struck down by a 1988 Cadillac DeVille, allegedly driven by Grinzinger, on East Bluegrass Road just west of Collegiate Way in Union Township at around 1:30 a.m. Sunday.

A 28-year-old Mount Pleasant resident is facing multiple charges resulting from allegedly strangling his 8-month old daughter.

Wayne Allen Hartley is lodged in Isabella County Jail on a $1 million dollar bond and was charged with assault with intent to commit murder, assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder, child abuse and domestic violence.

Two Mount Pleasant area residents have been charged with assaulting, beating and abducting a 32-year-old Lansing man.

Juan Luis Montoya-Pego, a 27-year-old member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, and Nickol May Jackson, a 26-year-old Mount Pleasant resident, were arraigned Monday in the 76th District Court in Mount Pleasant in connection to the incident.

Students may hear interesting sounds when walking in front of Sloan Hall this week.

But it’s no accident – a local artist and about a dozen of her friends spent Sunday evening transforming a tree in front of the building into a musical piece of art.

Mount Pleasant resident and Central Michigan University alumna Ingrid Tourangeau and her friends spent the day hanging hundreds of bells in a tree in front of Sloan Hall.

Two people from the Mount Pleasant area have been charged with assaulting, beating and abducting a 32-year-old Lansing man.

Juan Montoya-Pego, a 27-year-old member of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, and Nicole Jackson, a 26-year-old Mount Pleasant resident, were arraigned in the 76th District Court in Mount Pleasant today in connection to the beating.

Mount Pleasant Police are currently searching for a 31-year-old Mount Pleasant male responsible for assault and battery Sunday outside the Bird Bar & Grill.

MPPD Information Officer Dave Sabuda said it started with an exchange of words inside the 223 S. Main St.