Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
School Board Trustee honored for her service
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Dr. Martha Warfield was honored as she retired from the Kalamazoo School Board Thursday evening. It was her last regular meeting before her term ends. After six years on th...
Dec 23, 2016
Armed robbery suspect charged
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — A 26-year-old from Kalamazoo suspected in an armed robbery at a convenience store on Ravine Road has been ordered held on $50,000 bond. Prosecutors claim that DonJuan Locke...
Dec 23, 2016
Governor signs Uber and Lyft bills
LANSING (WKZO-AM) — Gov. Rick Snyder has signed legislation that will require that Uber and Lyft essentially meet the same standards and requirements that are applied to taxi companies in the st...
Dec 22, 2016
School trustees tweak course schedule
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Kalamazoo Public School trustees meet Thursday night for the last time this year with an eye on the future. On their agenda for final approval are changes in the class offe...
Dec 22, 2016
Woman sentenced for hit-and-run fatality
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — A young woman who got very drunk and then struck and killed a Western Michigan University engineering student last May has been given a 10-to-20-year prison sentence for th...
Dec 22, 2016
Proos: Legislation will ban fetal tissue sales
LANSING (WKZO-AM) — A pair of bills are on the governor’s desk that supporters say will ban the sale of aborted fetuses and fetal tissue in Michigan. This despite federal law already exist...
Dec 21, 2016
Gas prices spike just before the holiday
CHICAGO (WKZO-AM) — Gas prices have jumped 20 cents a gallon in southwest Michigan just days before Christmas. While the timing may stink, given all the families who are about to hit the road fo...
Dec 21, 2016
Deputies: Man tried to steal stereo from stuck car
LEONIDAS TOWNSHIP (WKZO-AM) — Sheriff’s deputies in St. Joseph County say they’re looking for a man who tried to remove the stereo from a vehicle that slid off the road in Leonidas T...
Dec 21, 2016
Task force will look into issuing county ID
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — The Kalamazoo County commission has agreed to form a task force to look into the idea of issuing county identification cards for residents who can’t obtain other form...
Dec 21, 2016
Autopsy reveals that woman froze to death
ALLEGAN COUNTY (WKZO-AM) — Foul play is being ruled out in the death of a woman found partially buried in the snow Sunday at a playground at the Shangri-La Mobile Home Park outside of Saugatuck....
Dec 20, 2016
