Category Archives: Battle Creek News
Ohio man charged with setting fire to Branch County motorcycle club
COLDWATER, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- An Ohio man was charged on Saturday, July 9, for setting a fire at a motorcycle club in Branch County. Authorities say 65-year-old Michael Behringer was charged with 3rd ...
Jul 10, 2022 Best Law
Suspects sought in robbery of business in Calhoun County
SPRINGFIELD, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Calhoun County Sheriff's Deputies are searching for suspects who broke into a food market early Friday morning, July 8. Police responded to a burglar alarm around 4 a.m...
Jul 10, 2022 Photo provided by the Callhoun County Sheriff's Office.
KDPS investigating two Saturday shootings happening within an hour of each other
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety police responded to two separate shootings on Saturday, July 9. The first one happened around 8 p.m. at LaCrone Park in the 500 bloc...
Jul 10, 2022 KDPS Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety cruiser (Photo by Jeana Gondek)
Despite positive numbers, economist says West Michigan confidence continues to fade
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Saying the statistics are fairly positive, but the mood is turning significantly negative, a West Michigan economist has issued his latest Business Survey. Dr. Brian Lo...
Jul 10, 2022 Dr. Brian Long, the Director of Supply Chain Management Research at Grand Valley State University
Galesburg teen victim of 2021 BB gun accident dies at home
GALESBURG, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A Galesburg teenager who was shot in the head with a BB gun in April 2021 has died. Deven Free, who was shot while he and his friends were playing with a BB gun died at h...
Jul 08, 2022
Vietnam Memorial wall replica heading to Battle Creek area: July 14 - 17
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Wall That Heals is a three-quarter scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial along with a Mobile Education Center, and it's coming to Emmett Township near Bat...
Jul 08, 2022 Image from the Calhoun County Red White Blue Foundation.
New name, same pest: Spongy Moth outbreaks in Michigan
PAW PAW, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Last summer you may have seen trees covered in caterpillars, with their droppings falling from the canopy, and spongy brown egg masses on every surface This has been a comm...
Jul 08, 2022 Image Credit: Karla Salp, Washington State Department of Agriculture, Bugwood.org
MDOT scheduled to start repaving M-66 in Leroy Township on Monday
LEROY TOWNSHIP, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - A repaving project on M-66 in Calhoun County's Leroy Township is scheduled to start on Monday. The Michigan Department of Transportation says they will invest $828,000...
Jul 08, 2022 Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) logo. (Photo courtesy Michigan Department of Transportation).
CRA takes disciplinary action against licensees in Kalamazoo, Ann Arbor, and Bangor
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Cannabis Regulatory Agency has taken disciplinary action against three marijuana licensees in Michigan, to include Southwest Michigan entities in Bangor and Kalamazoo...
Jul 07, 2022
Police believe blown tire to be main cause of deadly accident at Battle Creek's Field of Flight Air Show
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Battle Creek Police believe a blown tire to be the cause of the jet truck accident and death of 40-year-old Chris Darnell on Saturday, July 2, during the Field of Flig...
Jul 06, 2022
