Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Legislator proposes day to salute Vietnam Vets
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — State Representative Jon Hoadley has introduced legislation that would declare March 29th, Vietnam Veterans Recognition Day in Michigan. He says 69 other representatives...
localnews@mwcradio.com Oct 20, 2017
Indigent defense getting an upgrade in Michigan
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — What do Jeffrey Willis, Jason Dalton and Charles Pickett Jr. have in common, besides multiple murder counts. All three have court appointed lawyers. A report issued last...
localnews@mwcradio.com Oct 20, 2017
Kitchen fire leaves a tenant homeless
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — A stubborn kitchen fire at a small apartment building off Westnedge Avenue has displaced one tenant but Public Safety reports no injuries. Firetrucks were dispatched jus...
localnews@mwcradio.com Oct 20, 2017
State Police Director punished for NFL repost
LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) — Michigan's top cop is getting five days off without pay, but will still be reporting to work for reposting a message that called protesting NFL players who kneeled during ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Oct 19, 2017
Violence at Loy Norrix High quelled by PSO's
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — Public Safety Officers from Kalamazoo and Portage flooded into Loy Norrix High School during lunch to quell multiple fights and to investigate a report of a gun. Distric...
localnews@mwcradio.com Oct 19, 2017
Couple charged after raid on their home
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO AM/FM) — A husband and wife have been arrested and arraigned on obstruction charges but more are expected after a search of their home and property near Battle Creek. 40-year-...
localnews@mwcradio.com Oct 19, 2017
State Senate meddles in local enhancement funds
LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) — The Michigan Senate has approved a bill that would give charter schools a share of regional enhancement millage funds in the future. Six counties have the locally approved...
localnews@mwcradio.com Oct 19, 2017
He wants to know what you think
LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) — Lt. Governor Brian Calley will bring his traveling "All Voices, All in" roadshow to Kalamazoo next week, as he continues to take the pulse of the state on a possible campa...
localnews@mwcradio.com Oct 19, 2017
WMU Grad in on the hunt for the Kilonova
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — Western Michigan University says one of their recent grads, Ian Brown finds himself on the cutting edge of astrophysics, on one of the teams monitoring the kilonova, a b...
localnews@mwcradio.com Oct 19, 2017
UPDATE: Rescued woman identified
OSHTEMO (WKZO AM/FM) — Kalamazoo County investigators have released the name of the 53-year-old woman rescued from a burning mobile home at the Colonial Acres Mobile Home park on Wednesday. They...
localnews@mwcradio.com Oct 19, 2017




