Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Suspect in dismemberment charged with murder
MUSKEGON (WKZO AM/FM) — A West Michigan man who is suspected of shooting a friend he met in jail, chopping him up with a chain saw and distributing the body parts over two counties, has now been...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 17, 2017
Jail garden produces another bumper crop
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — We are told that no weed was safe in the Kalamazoo County's jail garden this year, as the inmate crew tending the veggies had a zero tolerance policy on any plant that d...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 17, 2017
Their college major is beer, how cool is that?
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — A lot of college students may be "majoring in beer" to the despair of their parents, but the student brewers at Kalamazoo Valley Community College can really take some p...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 17, 2017
Two train-pedestrian incidents in two nights
LAWTON (WKZO-AM/FM) — A man was struck and killed by an Amtrak train in Lawton, in Van Buren County, on Wednesday. A spokesperson for the rail line said the Wolverine 355 was headed toward Chica...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 17, 2017
Healthcare protesters call for "Medicare for all"
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — While the nation has lurched from the failure to reform healthcare, to threats from North Korea, to Charlottesville and the rise of hate groups, some locally would like ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 17, 2017
Man painted as white-supremacist claims he is not
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — The Craft Draft 2-Go tap room was closed Wednesday night and there is no telling how long it may remain closed after one of the co-owners, Aaron VanArdsdale, was exposed...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 17, 2017
UPDATE: KDPS shuts down intersection after deadly crash
UPDATE – 8/17 at 8:50 a.m.: The intersection has been reopened. ORIGINAL STORY: KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — Kalamazoo Public Safety has shut down Woodward and West Kalamazoo avenues after an ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 17, 2017
Constantine store failed alcohol compliance check
CONSTANTINE (WKZO-AM/FM) — Sheriff’s officials in St. Joseph County say six out of seven establishments that sell alcohol in Constantine passed compliance checks. Jit Food and Gas on North...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 16, 2017
Man hospitalized after possible heroin overdose
DELTON (WKZO-AM/FM) — The Barry County Sheriff’s Office says they found a man passed out in a parked vehicle from a possible heroin overdose Tuesday. The vehicle was discovered in a Delton...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 16, 2017
Some denounce hate appearing in West Michigan
UNDATED (WKZO-AM/FM) — There have been more racist incidents in west Michigan since the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va. Grand Rapids police are looking for a man with dar...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 16, 2017




