Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
BCPD stands by their officers
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO AM/FM) — A mentally challenged Battle Creek man claims police used excessive force when they took him into custody. Chief Jim Blocker says the officers were completely justifi...
Dec 27, 2017
Driver cited for crashing into squad car
MATTAWAN (WKZO AM/FM) — A Mattawan Police officer had his cruiser totaled by a wayward driver on I-94 who slid into the police car just as the officer had gotten out to work a crash scene. It is...
Dec 27, 2017
The sun may be shining but its cold outside
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — The cold continues and it's not going away and we can only be glad that as chilly as it may be here, it's even colder just to the west where some parts of the Dakotas, M...
Dec 27, 2017
PSO's forced out of burning home by falling debris
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — Kalamazoo Public Safety officers had a narrow escape early today when they were fighting a fire on the second floor of a home in the 1500 block of Washington Avenue and ...
Dec 27, 2017
Snow and cold should be with us all week
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) –The bad weather Christmas Day delayed flights out of Michigan airports, caused a number of slide offs along local highways and between the falling snow and gusts of up to...
Dec 26, 2017
Pickup injures family of six in buggy
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — The St. Joseph County Sheriff's Department investigated a crash between a 55-year-old driver who they alledge was drunk, and a horse and buggy with six people, including...
Dec 26, 2017
The Holidays can be tough for some families
EDISON NEIGHBORHOOD (WKZO AM/FM) –The family gathering at a home in the 1200 block of Lane Boulevard Christmas Eve turned violent when three family members got into an argument and a 30-year-old...
Dec 25, 2017
Merry Christmas Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — West Michigan got it's white Christmas, but it's also gotten travel advisories and warnings, Lake Effect snow bands, blowing and drifting, white outs, slick roads and ge...
Dec 25, 2017
Probationer caught with pot, spends Xmas in jail
PAW PAW (WKZO AM/FM) — A 28-year-old from Kalamazoo woke up Christmas morning in the Van Buren County Jail after a drug bust in in Almena Township. Van Buren County deputies stopped his car alon...
Dec 25, 2017
UPDATE: Boil water alerts on Texel and Foley lifted
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — The City of Kalamazoo has now terminated all three boil water alerts issued since the beginning of the holiday weekend. The alert to use bottled or boiled water on Virgi...
Dec 24, 2017
