Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Second Battle Creek Cereal Sale of 2025 coming up Friday
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The second Battle Creek Cereal Sale of 2025 will happen Friday, June 13 to benefit three Battle Creek nonprofit organizations. It's sponsored by Post Consumer Brands an...
Jun 10, 2025
Milham Avenue lane closure from Wednesday through June 20 at South Westnedge Avenue
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The eastbound curb lane of Milham Avenue will be closed through the South Westnedge Avenue intersection in Portage from 9 a.m. on June 11 through Friday, June 20. The city w...
Jun 10, 2025
Khymarus Pratt sentenced for 2024 murder of Bader Farwana in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - 20-year-old Khymarus Pratt will spend the next 25 to 60 years in prison for killing 25-year-old Bader Farwana in Kalamazoo. Farwana was found with deadly gunshot wounds in...
Jun 10, 2025 Khymarus Pratt was arraigned April 29, 2024 on charges of open murder and felony firearm (courtesy Kalamazoo County Jail)
Senator Nesbitt, Secretary of State Benson clash over Trump's militarization in L.A.
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Two Michigan gubernatorial candidates in 2026 are speaking out on opposite sides in President Trump's deployment of troops in Los Angeles to try to quell immigration protest...
Jun 10, 2025 Former President Donald Trump in Grand Rapids, MI April 2, 2024
Man sentenced for kidnapping woman, two children
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Kalamazoo man has been sentenced to prison for kidnapping a woman and her two children in Kalamazoo last year. 30-year-old Deshawn Gladney was sentenced Monday as he was...
Jun 10, 2025 DeShawn Gladney (courtesy Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office)
Kalamazoo arsonist sentenced to 17 to 40 years in prison
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -A Kalamazoo man who pled guilty to setting multiple fires in the city between June and September last year has been sentenced a to 17 to 40 years in prison for the string o...
Jun 09, 2025 VadimVasenin / Depositphotos.com
City of Kalamazoo hires David Marquardt as deputy city manager
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The city of Kalamazoo has hired David Marquardt as their new deputy city manager. He comes to Kalamazoo from Grand Rapids, where he has been their Parks and Recreation Dep...
Jun 09, 2025
Road to Restoration clinic planned for June 17 in Battle Creek
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Area drivers who have lost their license can get information on ways of getting it back, as the Secretary of State and other community partners host aRoad to Restoratio...
Jun 09, 2025 (courtesy of the State of Michigan at michigan.gov/sos)
June is Elder Abuse Awareness Month
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - June is Elder Abuse Awareness Month, it's a growing problem with the nation's second largest age group. One in six Americans are now 65 or over and the 85 & over crowd...
Jun 09, 2025 Kalamazoo County Health and Community Services Department logo
KVET, Kalamazoo Public Safety make arrest
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 20-year-old Kalamazoo man is in the Kalamazoo County Jail after being arrested by the city's Public Safety department and the Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team. Officers...
Jun 09, 2025
