Category Archives: Battle Creek News
Extensive damage in Battle Creek house fire Monday
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Several pets died and a Battle Creek home suffered $150,000 damage, with another $80,000 in contents lost, in a Monday afternoon fire. The Battle Creek Fire Department,...
Apr 22, 2025 Battle Creek Fire department (Photo by John McNeil)
Lansing man arrested for causing wrong-way crash on I-94 in Calhoun County
CALHOUN COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A wrong-way driver is in the Calhoun County Jail for causing a serious multi-vehicle crash on I-94 near the 107-mile marker around 3:20 Tuesday morning. Deputies say ...
Apr 22, 2025 Photo courtesy of the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office.
Another man arraigned on charges in relation to shooting death in Kalamazoo April 12
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A third arrest has been made in connection with the shooting death of security guard in Kalamazoo earlier this month. 20-year-old Oscar David Wygant of Battle Creek was ar...
Apr 21, 2025
Bishop Edward Lohse issues statement on death of Pope Francis
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Bishop Edward Lohse has issued a statement on the death of Pope Francis Monday morning at the age of 88. "I join with all of the faithful in the Diocese of Kalamazoo in of...
Apr 21, 2025 Msgr. Edward M. Lohse has been named as the fifth Bishop for the Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo (courtesy Diocese of Kalamazoo)
Seven injured in two vehicle Cass County crash
POKAGON TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two adults and five children were injured when their vehicle rear- ended another on M-51 in Cass County's Pokagon Township Saturday morning. Around 10:30 a.m. deput...
Apr 19, 2025
Two arraigned in shooting death of security guard in Kalamazoo last weekend
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two men from Battle Creek have now been formally charged in connection with April 12 shooting death of security guard Montine Wiley April 12 at a party at a club on East N...
Apr 18, 2025 L-R: Damonte Christopher Jenkins-Gooden and Kaiden Tanner Cole (courtesy Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety)
One man stabbed, another in custody, after fight in downtown Battle Creek early Thursday
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Battle Creek Police says a fight led to a stabbing early Thursday morning. The fight and stabbing happened in the 40th block of South 23rd Street. The victim, a 20-year...
Apr 17, 2025 zhukovsky / Depositphotos.com
DTE Energy breaks ground on 100 megawatt solar panel project north of Quincy
QUINCY, MI (WTVB) - Even though excavating work already underway, the ceremonial groundbreaking was held Tuesday for a massive solar project north of Quincy. The 100 megawatt solar panel project spans...
Apr 15, 2025 Groundbreaking at the Cold Creek Solar Park north of Quincy, MI April 15, 2025
Sherwood Township man found dead while in custody at LaGrange County, Indiana Jail
LAGRANGE, IN (WTVB) - The Steuben County Sheriff's Office as begun an investigation is underway into the death of a 37-year-old Sherwood Township, Michigan man who died at the LaGrange County, Indiana...
Apr 15, 2025 Lagrange County Sheriff's Department and Jail (courtesy LaGrange County Sheriff's Office)
Police still searching for one person of interest in shooting death of security guard at Kalamazoo party
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety says it has interviewed and cleared one person of interest in the shooting death of a security guard at nightclub over the weeken...
Apr 15, 2025 A screenshot of security video provided by the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety
