Author Archives: Ken Delaney
Rollover crash and car fire on I-94 east of Kalamazoo Friday morning
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A driver received only minor injuries in a rollover crash and car fire on I-94 east of Kalamazoo Friday morning. The Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office says the single vehi...
Dec 08, 2023
Suspect in hate speech graffiti spray painted in Kalamazoo now in custody in Arizona
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A suspected of at least three separate acts of vandalism/graffiti involving hate speech in downtown Kalamazoo last month has been arrested in Arizona. According to the Kal...
Dec 07, 2023 (courtesy Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety)
Inmate suicide at Calhoun County Jail Thursday
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Calhoun County Sheriff's Office says a 40-year-old inmate from Southgate, Michigan hanged himself while in custody at the jail Thursday morning. Around 9:30 a.m. de...
Dec 07, 2023 (courtesy Calhoun County Sheriff's Office)
Nazareth, MI Post Office continues holiday pictorial postmark after more than 100 years
NAZARETH, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A small post office in Kalamazoo County will keep a tradition of over 100 years alive, offering a Special Holiday Pictorial Postmark to customers from around the world. In ...
Dec 07, 2023 (courtesy United States Postal Service)
LEO awards over $1.3 million to Kalamazoo Defender, Inc. to help expand services
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Kalamazoo-based non-profit that handles public defender services for the county court system has been awarded $1.3 million from the state to expand mental health service...
Dec 06, 2023 (courtesy Kalamazoo Defender, Inc.)
Broncos fall on the road at Notre Dame in men's hoops
SOUTH BEND, IN (WKZO AM/FM) - The Western Michigan University men's basketball team fell on the road at Notre Dame 86-65 Tuesday. Titus Wright led the Broncos (2-6) in scoring with 14 points on 7-of-1...
Dec 06, 2023 (courtesy Kaley Buck-WMU Photographer)
Man shoots himself in the foot after a domestic fight in Battle Creek
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 22-year-old woman is in the Calhoun County Jail for domestic assault and charges are pending against a 24-year-old man after a physical fight that led to a gunshot to...
Dec 05, 2023
Despite the Kalamazoo Promise, college enrollment for KPS graduates down 15% in the past five years
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A report from the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research shows college enrollment for Kalamazoo Promise scholarship recipients went down at an even higher rate duri...
Dec 03, 2023
Labor leader and lobbyist from Battle Creek pleads guilty to assaulting woman at Kalamazoo County gathering
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A longtime labor leader and lobbyist has pled to one count of Aggravated Assault after allegedly forcing a woman to fondle him at a gathering in Kalamazoo County in April ...
Dec 01, 2023 Michigan Attorney General logo (courtesy of Michigan Attorney General)
Battle Creek woman charged with murder in double fatal accident in Kalamazoo County
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Battle Creek woman has been arraigned on murder charges after a crash that caused the death of two people in August in Kalamazoo County's Ross Township. 29-year-old Rach...
Dec 01, 2023 Best Law
