Area police are investigating two robberies that occurred throughout Tuesday. According to Mount Pleasant police, a man held up National City bank, 409 N. Mission St., around 11:15 a.m. Tuesday with an unidentified weapon. Shortly after 8 p.m., the Isabella County Sheriff’s Department responded to a robbery at the Blodgett Shell gas station, 5612 E. Pickard Rd., in Union Township.

Candum Royal Buckner, 38, of Mount Pleasant is dead and two others injured after two vehicles collided this afternoon on M-20 east of the city. The man was killed around 4 p.m. after his 1999 Ford Ranger headed eastbound and crossed the center line, said Isabella County Sheriff Leo Mioduszewski. The Ranger was struck head on by a black Chevy Z71 pick-up truck as it headed in the opposite direction.

The 26-year-old Weidman man accused of sexually assaulting a female earlier this month was charged with four more crimes in Isabella County Trial Court Monday. Daniel Danny Leonard is accused of assaulting a 24-year-old female after entering her Deerfield Road apartment in the early morning hours of Jan. 8.

Concerns about the number of police calls to Union Township have sparked recommendations for how to improve local police efforts.

Two people involved in a two-vehicle collision north of Mount Pleasant Monday were in serious condition at a Saginaw hospital Tuesday afternoon.

When a woman is rapped, it has a rippling effect in everyone within a community. The recent crimes in Mount Pleasant has made everyone a little more paranoid and scared of the night.

The Isabella County Sheriff’s Department has charged a Weidman man with several felonies stemming from a sexual assault early Friday morning on Deerfield Road.

The Isabella County Sheriff’s Department has identified Daniel Danny Leonard as the suspect who faces several felony charges stemming from a sexual assault Friday morning on Deerfield Road.