Category Archives: Battle Creek News
State Trooper dragged by vehicle, suffers minor injuries while attempting arrest in Branch County
BUTLER TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) - A Michigan State Trooper investigating a child custody dispute in Branch County's Butler Township was dragged by a vehicle fleeing the scene. Just before midnight on Satur...
Dec 22, 2024 Photo courtesy of Michigan State Police
Physical Therapist Assistant Program at KCC receives $1 million donation
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WTVB) - Kellogg Community College's Physical Therapist Assistant Program has received a donation of $1 million from Battle Creek's Southwest Michigan Rehab Foundation. That includes ...
Dec 21, 2024 (courtesy Kellogg Community College)
Three injured in Sherwood Township head-on crash this morning
SHERWOOD TOWNSHIP, MI (WTVB) - Three people were injured as a vehicle crossed the centerline and crashed head-on into another vehicle in Branch County's Sherwood Township Friday morning. The Branch Co...
Dec 20, 2024 danielt.1994 / Depositphotos.com
High speed chase ends after suspect rams several police vehicles and crashes into utility pole in Allen
HILLSDALE, MI (WTVB) - An early morning chase that began in Hillsdale and ended after a Homer man rammed several police cruisers before crashing into a utility pole in Allen could land that man in pri...
Dec 19, 2024 zeferli@gmail.com / Depositphotos.com
Kalamazoo and Calhoun County prosecutors among those critical of proposed sentencing changes
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Members of the Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan, including the Kalamazoo and Calhoun County prosecutors are speaking out ahead of a week that could see the Mich...
Dec 17, 2024 tomloel / Depositphotos.com
Kalamazoo man found guilty of first-degree murder in shooting death last August
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 22-year-old Kalamazoo man has been convicted of murder in the shooting death of another man in 2023. The Kalamazoo County Circuit Court jury Friday found Axel Armando Zu...
Dec 16, 2024 zolnierek / Depositphotos.com
Richland Township home total loss after fire
RICHLAND TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - There were no injuries, but a house in Kalamazoo County's Richland Township is likely a total loss after a fire Saturday afternoon. The home is located on M-89 nea...
Dec 14, 2024 Arseni Mourzenko
Second teen in Jack Snyder's murder pleads guilty to killing him
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A second teenager has pled guilty to an open murder charge in the death of Battle Creek Central High School senior Jack Snyder in February 2023. 15-year-old Justice Chi...
Dec 13, 2024 Photo take from the family's GoFundMe page.
All-MIAA basketball player killed in Wednesday night I-94 crash
EMMETT TOWNSHIP, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - A Detroit man who was an All-M.I.A.A. basketball player for two seasons at Trine University in Angola, Indiana was killed on Wednesday night in a crash on westbound I...
Dec 12, 2024 Courtesy Trine University
Lawton man pleads guilty to fatally stabbing ex-girlfriend
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Lawton faces decades in prison after pleading guilty to killing his ex-girlfriend at her apartment in Kalamazoo. Wednesday morning Jeff Kucharski pled guilty to second d...
Dec 11, 2024 tomloel / Depositphotos.com
