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The Benton Harbor-St. Joseph area will soon have an Arby's restaurant for the first time in years.

State Representative Beth Griffin of Mattawan is pleased with how a disagreement between legislative Republicans and Governor Gretchen Whitmer was resolved.

A resolution seeking to block President Trump's border wall emergency declaration has been introduced in the U.S. House.

2019 is starting off a little quieter than the past few years for sales of existing homes in the area.

If you're starting to put together your taxes, be ready to see some new forms.

97.5 Y Country radio has wrapped up another Country Cares Radiothon for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

It's new legislation to help Michigan residents that may be vulnerable under the current foreclosure system.

The I-R-S has a warning to taxpayers: when you answer the phone it is probably NOT them on the line.

The investigation is expanding into why a cargo plane near Houston, Texas fell from the sky Saturday afternoon and landed in Trinity Bay.

A senior Justice Department official says Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report will not be delivered for at least another week.

Some major surprises at the Oscars.

John's guest this week is Jim Wall, educator, playwright and novelist. They talk about the difference between writing a novel and a play. More Jim talks of the differences among the performances of his own plays by different casts and production. The humor, the embarrassment, and the joy of seeing his work acted out in different ways; the horrors of Auschwitz that moved him to write a play with it as a base.

Flick Pick is a podcast about movies. In today's episode, Andrew Green reviews Happy Death Day 2U, which is the sequel to 2017's Happy Death Day. Andrew also reviewed that film, and loved it. Does this crazy sequel live up to the original? Scroll down and click the Play button to find out what our reviewer thinks.

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Also, here's Andrew's review of the original Happy Death Day.

 

02-22-19 WSJM Afternoon News

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It is possible to find compromise and work across the aisle in Congress?

The Michigan Attorney General's office is reviewing more than four-million documents and other evidence related to the Flint water crisis.

A plan from Cornerstone Alliance to increase public access to the St. Joseph River in St. Joe and Benton Harbor is moving forward.

The murder trial for the widow of US Army Sergeant Tyrone Hassel the Third and her lover will start April 30.

Indiana Michigan Power has announced two economic development grants for Berrien County.

Vail Rubber Works is set for an expansion in Royalton Township.

Kent County Sheriff Michelle LaJoye-Young is confirming what was suspected all along: that the tragic shooting deaths of three young girls and their mother was a triple-murder-suicide.

The actor Jussie Smollet allegedly lied about being attacked and the victim of a hate crime last month. So what would make someone do that?

President Trump declared a national emergency last week in order to take money Congress had appropriated for other activities and use it to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.--and House Democrats trying to block the move.

Election officials in North Carolina ordered a new vote in the 9th Congressional district.

Win or lose, the official Oscars after-party will be a pretty swanky affair.

Flick Pick is a podcast about movies. In today's episode, Andrew Green and Jacob Holmes discuss the new movies opening this week. We have two. First up is How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, which is the third entry in the well-regarded animated series. Jacob plans to see it. The other new movie is Fighting with Family, which is a wrestling film with the Rock. It's based on a true story!

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02-21-19 WSJM Afternoon News