Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
School district gets $51-million grant
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO AM/FM) The financially strapped Battle Creek Public Schools have just gotten a huge injection of new revenue from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Its a $51-million dollar grant that wi...
May 05, 2017
UPDATE: ''Person of interest" in killing found in Illinois
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM/FM) — The person of interest who was being sought for questioning in Calhoun County’s first murder of the year has been taken into custody in Illinois and is being qu...
May 05, 2017
Kalamazoo marathon, Borgess "Run For the Health of It" set for weekend
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — Sunday is marathon day in Kalamazoo. Nearly 9,000 runners participated in the Kalamazoo Marathon and several other Borgess “Run For the Health of It” events ...
May 05, 2017
UPDATE: Man dead after three-car crash
STURGIS (WKZO AM/FM) — A three-car crash at South Centreville Road and South Street in Sturgis has resulted in a death and a murder charge against the at-fault driver. Sturgis police say it bega...
May 05, 2017
UPDATE: Body discovered in burned shed
UPDATE: 5/5 at 11:20 a.m.: The victim has been identified as 40-year-old Dee Alan-Depew Joslin II of Schoolcraft Township. ORIGINAL STORY: KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — Sheriff’s detectives in ...
May 05, 2017
State Farm to eliminate 600 local jobs
PORTAGE (WKZO-AM/FM) — State Farm will be closing its Portage claims office, consolidating their work force and moving the jobs to Bloomington, Illinois, Atlanta, Dallas and Phoenix. Over 600 pe...
May 04, 2017
Local reaction to Republican changes to health care
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — Protesters and Democrats are vowing to make Republican lawmakers pay at the polls after all nine of Michigan’s Republican members of the House voted to push the bi...
May 04, 2017
Fuller: Consolidated dispatch will still happen despite Tuesday defeat
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM/FM) — Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard Fuller is trying to figure out how a funding plan for consolidated emergency dispatch failed by over 7,200 votes Tuesday. Campaign advoc...
May 04, 2017
Dog Walk and K-9 Festival this Saturday in Vicksburg
VICKSBURG (WKZO-AM/FM) — Pooches and their owners will hit the trails at Prairie View Park in Vicksburg this Saturday for the Kalamazoo Humane Society’s 2017 Dog Walk and K-9 Festival. The...
May 04, 2017
"Recycled Art in the Park" set for Saturday in Portage
PORTAGE (WKZO-AM/FM) — Artists will be vying for prize money and recognition at the fifth-annual Recycled Art in the Park event this Saturday at Celery Flats in Portage. Each entrant was require...
May 04, 2017
