Category Archives: Battle Creek News
Pedestrian suffers non-life-threatening injuries after being struck by Amtrak train in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - An 18-year-old Kalamazoo man is hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries after being struck by an Amtrak train Friday morning. The Kalamazoo Department of Public Sa...
Aug 02, 2024 Richard Eriksson / CC
Group of distressed kayakers rescued from Kalamazoo River near Otsego
OTSEGO TWP., MI (WKZO/WHTC) - What was supposed to be a fun afternoon along the Kalamazoo River in southeast Allegan County Thursday for a group of kayakers turned out to be more than they bargained f...
Aug 01, 2024 lucidwaters / Depositphotos.com
Bond denied for suspect in Fox Ridge Apartments murder case
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Police have made an arrest in the shooting death of a Kalamazoo man last month. Detectives from the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigation Division, ...
Aug 01, 2024 Best Law
Portage Disaster Loan Outreach Center to assist tornado victims to remain open through August 9
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Almost three months after multiple tornadoes touched down in southwest Michigan, the U.S. Small Business Administration says it will keep open its Portage Disaster Loan Outr...
Aug 01, 2024 Storm damage from a tornado near Sherwood, Michigan May 7, 2024 (photo courtesy of Raymond Wright)
Battle Creek firefighter injured in Tuesday night fire on Hunter Street
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - A Battle Creek firefighter was injured on Tuesday night while battling a house fire in the 200 block of Hunter Street. The fire was reported just after 5:00 p.m.. Battle...
Aug 01, 2024 Battle Creek Fire Department (BCFD) truck. (Photo courtesy of the Battle Creek Fire Department Facebook Page).
Calhoun County Sheriff's Department gets $35,000 grant for new drones
MARSHALL, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The Calhoun County Sheriff's Office has announced that it has been awarded a $35,000 Impact Grant from the Marshall Community Foundation to purchase two new drones and repla...
Jul 31, 2024 Courtesy Calhoun County Sheriff's Department
United Way touts local financial impact on households across the region
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - United Way of South Central Michigan (UWSCMI) announced Monday that local support and outside grants in 2023-24 totaled more than $23.6 million to drive efforts addressing...
Jul 30, 2024 (courtesy United Way of South Central Michigan)
Van Buren County Pearl Harbor survivor presented posthumously with medal
GOBLES, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The widow of Gobles man who lived through the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor was presented with a Pearl Harbor Survivors Medal by Congressman Bill Hui...
Jul 29, 2024 Congressman Bill Huizenga present s the Pearl Harbor Survivors Medal to Hazel Baron on behalf of her late husband (courtesy office of Congressman Bill Huizenga)
Five-year-old critically injured after driver runs red light in Comstock Township
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A child was critically injured in a two-vehicle crash in Kalamazoo County's Comstock Township Saturday afternoon. Just after 2:00 p.m. members of the Kalamazoo Cou...
Jul 27, 2024
Carlson sentenced to 37 ½ to 60 years in prison in Allegan County child sexual abuse case
ALLEGAN, MI (WKZO AM/FM/WHTC-AM/FM) - A Wyoming, Michigan man who pled no contest to 26 charges for sexually abusing a two-year-old girl he had been hired to babysit in Allegan has been sentenced to 3...
Jul 24, 2024 Gary Christopher Carlson (photo courtesy Allegan Co. Sheriff's Dept.)
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