Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Meth, cash found near St. Joe County crash
STURGIS (WKZO-AM) — Two people are jailed after an undisclosed “large amount” of methamphetamine and cash was found near the scene of a wreck early Thursday in Sturgis. It happened a...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 08, 2016
Michigan athletes at the Paralympics
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL (WKZO-AM) — A Western Michigan University graduate is competing in the Rio Paralympics, which got underway with opening ceremonies on Wednesday. John Kusku is a whiz at go...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 08, 2016
Kalamazoo-Portage home prices up six percent
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — CoreLogic says home prices in the Kalamazoo-Portage area increased six percent in July compared to figures from a year ago. That matches the increase seen nationally and ex...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 08, 2016
UPDATE: Man with suspicious injuries not expected to live
UPDATE – 9/10 at 7:15 a.m.: No arrests have been made yet in the beating of a homeless man near the Kalamazoo College campus. At last word, the victim, who suffered life-threatening head injurie...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 08, 2016
Suspect in Portage stabbing at large
PORTAGE (WKZO-AM) — Portage Public Safety was dispatched mid-morning Wednesday to the Milham Meadows complex at Milham and Oakland to handle complaints of a fight in progress. Before they got th...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 07, 2016
Head-on with tractor-trailer proves fatal
PAW PAW (WKZO-AM) — A head-on collision between a commercial van and a semitrailer has left one man dead and another hospitalized. Michigan State Police say, for some reason they have not yet de...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 07, 2016
Ordinance would give cyclists more room
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — There's been a change in plans for an immediate measure to protect bikers in Kalamazoo. A proposal to require that motorists in Kalamazoo give cyclists three feet of room w...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 07, 2016
Suspect charged in off-campus rape
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — A Niles man has been charged with first degree home invasion and first degree criminal sexual conduct and other charges in Kalamazoo District court after he allegedly let h...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 07, 2016
Bill would ban using phones while driving
LANSING (WKZO-AM) — It's already against the law to text while driving in Michigan. Now a bill is being introduced by Rep. Martin Howrylak that would make it an offence to drive and use a hand h...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 07, 2016
Panhandling regulations pass in Battle Creek
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) — There will be an ordinance regulating panhandling in Battle Creek in ten days. After hearing an hour of public comment both for and against the controversial proposal Tu...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 07, 2016




