Category Archives: Battle Creek News
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
Recount gives Steve Frisbie 79-vote win in state House District 44
MARSHALL, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Republican Calhoun County commissioner Steve Frisbie has won the state House District 44 race after a hand recount. Frisbie defeated Democratic incumbent Representative Jim...
Dec 11, 2024 Exterior of Michigan Capitol building (courtesy State of Michigan)
Battle Creek police investigating shots fired
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Battle Creek police are investigating shots being fired into a home in the 60 block of Ann Avenue. The shots were fired just after 6 a.m. Tuesday and there were people ...
Dec 11, 2024 Battle Creek Police Cruiser (photo by John McNeill).
Federal funding to address flooding issues in Kalamazoo, restoration of the Kalamazoo River in downtown Battle Creek
WASHINGTON D.C. (WKZO AM/FM) - A bipartisan water infrastructure bill that overwhelmingly passed the U.S. House Tuesday provides money for several projects in southwest Michigan, including Kalamazoo a...
Dec 11, 2024 Flooding in Kalamazoo. (Photo by John McNeil).
Westland man sent to federal prison in 2020 Albion Hydroponics robbery
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan Mark Totten has announced that 27-year-old Andrew Curtis Williams of Westland, Michigan, was sentenced to 110 months i...
Dec 10, 2024 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
