Author Archives: Ken Delaney
28-year-old woman dead, 33-year-old Battle Creek man in custody after Battle Creek stabbing
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 28-year-old woman is dead and a 33-year-old Battle Creek man is in custody, following a stabbing on Pitman Avenue late Friday night. Battle Creek Police arrived on sc...
Apr 13, 2024 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
High winds cause widespread power outages
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - After the National Weather Service issued a High Wind Advisory for Friday afternoon, those winds created their predicted problems, downing trees and power lines, causing t...
Apr 13, 2024 Consumers Energy outage map April 13, 2023 (courtesy Consumers Energy)
Walk this Saturday in Kalamazoo will raise awareness and money for homelessness efforts
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Walkers will take to the streets of Kalamazoo this Saturday to raise awareness and resources for programs addressing homelessness. The annual five-kilometer walk, sponsore...
Apr 12, 2024 (courtesy Housing Resources Inc.)
Two persons of interest in Kalamazoo murder arrested on unrelated charges
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two persons of interest in the shooting death of a man in Kalamazoo Tuesday night have been arrested on unrelated charges. The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety says d...
Apr 11, 2024 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
Local United Way to administer FEMA grants for nonprofits tackling hunger, homelessness
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Local food and shelter programs in Kalamazoo County and the surrounding region covered by the United Way of South Central Michigan are eligible for a share of $466,232 in ...
Apr 10, 2024 United Ways of South Central Michigan logo. (Image courtesy United Ways of South Central Michigan).
Tourism professionals and volunteers help construct new wiffle ball field in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - With assistance from over 60 volunteers involved in the tourism business statewide, work on a new wiffle ball field began at Mayor's Riverfront Park in Kalamazoo Tuesday. ...
Apr 10, 2024 (courtesy Kalamazoo Growlers)
First Adopt-A-Highway clean-up of the year starts this weekend
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Volunteers will fan out across lower Michigan beginning Saturday to give state highway roadsides their first cleaning of the year as part of the Michigan Department of Trans...
Apr 10, 2024 110TH AIRLIFT WING / CC
Kalamazoo Public Library looks to fill vacancy on board
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Public Library Board of Trustees is seeking applicants interested in filling a vacancy on the board. The vacancy was created by the recent resignation of tru...
Apr 10, 2024 (courtesy Kalamazoo Public Library)
Road Commission of Kalamazoo County honored for projects, communication
LANSING, MI - The Road Commission of Kalamazoo County (RCKC), which recently moved into an expanded facility earlier this year, has now been honored with three statewide IMPRESS Awards and a People's ...
Apr 10, 2024 (courtesy County Road Association of Michigan)
Parents of Oxford school shooter each sentenced to ten to 15 years in prison
PONTIAC, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The parents of the Michigan school shooter were each sentenced to ten to 15 years in prison Tuesday. James and Jennifer Crumbley were convicted in separate trials of involun...
Apr 09, 2024 FILE PHOTO: Ethan Robert Crumbley, 15, charged with first-degree murder in a high school shooting, poses in a jail booking photograph taken at the Oakland County Jail in Pontiac, Michigan, U.S. December 1, 2021, in a combination photograph with his parents Jennifer Lynn Crumbley and James Robert Crumbley who were taken into custody December 3, 2021. Oakland County Sheriff's Office/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo
