Category Archives: Battle Creek News
Former WMU officer accused of offering to pay a minor for sex accepts plea deal
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A former Western Michigan University police officer accused of soliciting an underage girl for sex has pleaded guilty to one count of using a computer to commit a crime, ...
Sep 06, 2022 Photo provided by the Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office.
Road closures in Battle Creek area starting Tuesday due to ongoing storm cleanup
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- City crews will be performing ongoing cleanup of storm damage from this past Monday, August 29, resulting in the following road closures beginning Tuesday, September 6...
Sep 04, 2022 Road closed sign
Calhoun Sheriff honors retiring deputy and K9 officer
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Calhoun County Sheriff Steve Hinkley recognized two retirements from the Sheriff's Office as well as the growth and success of the Battle Creek Area K-9 Training Program...
Sep 03, 2022 Courtesy Calhoun County Sheriff's Department Facebook page
Calhoun Commissioners approve Juvenile Home name change
MARSHALL, MI (WTVB) - The Juvenile Home will now be named the Calhoun County Youth Center and will adopt a new logo that depicts a phoenix. This change was approved by the Calhoun County Board of Comm...
Sep 02, 2022 Courtesy Calhoun County Government
Battle Creek pauses process to hire DEI Officer
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The City of Battle Creek is pausing it hiring process for a new Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer. According to a press release from the city, officials made the...
Sep 01, 2022 Photo from City of Battle Creek Facebook Page
WMU-Cooley Innocence Project to host exoneree panel discussion
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Western Michigan Cooley Law School is set to feature it's WMU-Cooley Innocence Project panel discussion that will feature exonerees who will share their stories of wrongful...
Aug 31, 2022 Ken Nixon after being released from the Michigan Reformatory in Ionia, Michigan February 18, 2021(courtesy of the Western Michigan University Cooley Law School)
Dowagiac Union Schools bus struck and rolls on its side after running a stop sign in Cass County
WAYNE TOWNSHIP, CASS COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Authorities say a school bus driver apparently went through a stop sign and the bus was hit by another vehicle in Cass County's Wayne Township early this...
Aug 31, 2022 (courtesy of the Cass County Sheriff's Office)
Amtrak pausing two train routes through Michigan due to staffing and supply issues
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Amtrak is temporarily canceling its Wolverine Service Trains 350 and 355 from Chicago to Pontiac until September 15. Spokesman Marc Magliari says its due to not having eno...
Aug 31, 2022 Biker loads his bike onto the Amtrak train. (Photo courtesy of Jeana Gondek)
Teen suffers serious injuries in Calhoun County two vehicle accident
NEWTON TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A teenage girl from Emmett Township suffered serious injuries in a crash on 8 Mile Road near B Drive S in Calhoun County's Newton Township Tuesday afternoon. The Cal...
Aug 31, 2022
Thousands in Calhoun and Kalamazoo Counties without power, some maybe off line until Friday
CALHOUN COUNTY, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The power is going to remain off for another day or two for some Consumers Energy customers in Calhoun and Kalamazoo Counties. The utility reported Wednesday morning t...
Aug 31, 2022 Photo courtesy of Consumer's Energy
