Category Archives: Battle Creek News
Kalamazoo Beer Exchange, which priced beer like stock market prices, set to close this weekend
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A restaurant and bar in downtown Kalamazoo is set to close its doors for good this weekend. After 15 years of beer prices that rose and fell every 15 minutes based on dema...
Dec 18, 2025
Bronson BirthPlace says Theodore and Violet are their top names for this year
KALAMAZOO, M (WKZO AM/FM) - Theodore and Violet top the list of Bronson BirthPlace's most popular baby names of 2025. Bronson welcomed more than 4,500 newborns in 2025, bringing with them a fresh list...
Dec 17, 2025
Suspect who police say shot up a Kalamazoo restaurant arraigned on 25 felony counts
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The suspect in a September shooting that injured five at a Kalamazoo restaurant was arraigned on 25 felony counts Tuesday. 19-year-old Na'Ledge Quincy Lovon Williams Chamb...
Dec 16, 2025 Naledge Quincy Lovon Williams Chamberlain (courtesy KDPS)
Man sentenced for child pornography possession
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Calhoun County man will serve between ten and 15-years in prison for possessing child pornography. The judge in the case against Kevin Wilson called it one of the mos...
Dec 16, 2025 Joe Gratz
Statewide gas prices up slightly in past week
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It's 3 more expensive per gallon to fill the gas tank in Michigan this week. Triple-A Michigan says the statewide average is now at $2.85, which is 19 less than last month ...
Dec 15, 2025
Two convicted of murder after man was gunned down in broad daylight at Kalamazoo apartment complex
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A pair of men have been found guilty this week in the shooting death of another man at the Fox Ridge Apartments in Kalamazoo in 2024. 30-year-old Charles Lee Weir was gunn...
Dec 12, 2025 iqoncept / Depositphotos.com
Kalamazoo, Calhoun county medical director: Keep giving babies Hepatitis B vaccine
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan health officials continue to recommend the Hepatitis B birth dose. A federal committee that makes recommendations to the CDC recently voted to delay the vaccine. ...
Dec 12, 2025 NIAID / CC
Battle Creek man facing child exploitation charges
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 35-year-old Battle Creek man is facing charges of accosting a child for immoral purposes and using a computer or the internet to communicate with a person to commit a...
Dec 12, 2025
Three Christmas dinners to be held next week by God's Kitchen of Michigan
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - God's Kitchen of Michigan will hold three Christmas dinners next week. The first two will be in Battle Creek Wednesday, followed by the third in Kalamazoo on Thursday. On ...
Dec 11, 2025
Trial of Calhoun County gynecologist postponed
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A lack of potential jurors is pushing the trial of a Calhoun County gynecologist back to mid-2026. 61-year-old Mark Walker is charged with three counts of second-degree...
Dec 10, 2025 londondeposit / Depositphotos.com
