Category Archives: Battle Creek News
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.)
MDOT awards grant for BlueOval Battery Park road improvements
MARSHALL, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The Michigan Department of Transportation says they have awarded a state Transportation Economic Development Fund grant to the Calhoun County Road Department for road improv...
Jul 24, 2024
Three injured, gas line cut in Tuesday afternoon Albion Township crash
ALBION TOWNSHIP, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Three persons were injured and a gas line was cut on Tuesday afternoon in a two vehicle crash at the intersection of M-99 and D Drive South. Calhoun County Sheriff's ...
Jul 24, 2024 Photo courtesy of the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office.
Branch County man to stand trial for sexual assault, drug charges
BRANCH COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 46-year-old man from Branch County has been bound over for trial for allegedly sexually assaulting an 11-year-old and a 12-year-old girl and giving them meth. It hap...
Jul 19, 2024 Joe Gratz
Battle Creek man killed in crash at M-66 and B Drive South
LEROY TOWNSHIP, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - A 71-year-old Battle Creek man lost his life on Wednesday afternoon in a crash at the intersection of M-66 and B Drive South in Calhoun County. Michigan State Police a...
Jul 18, 2024 Michigan State Police - File photo
