Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Labor Day by the numbers
UNDATED (WKZO) — It's the last weekend of summer and if you want the numbers, we have them. AAA estimates that 35.5-million folks nationally will travel this weekend, about a million Michigander...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 03, 2016
Mosquitoes may bug you this weekend
UNDATED (WKZO-AM) — Mosquitoes may wreck your outdoor plans this holiday weekend. The mosquito numbers are up but there are things you can do to defend yourself. Those annoying little pests are ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 03, 2016
Mother-Daughter team caught stealing at Mall
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) — Shoplifting may just be a misdemeanor if all the thief is taking is a pack of gum, but what a mother and daughter have been charged with in Battle Creek is something ent...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 03, 2016
WMU's season begins but questions remain
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Officials in the WMU athletic Department are weighing whether they should start doing criminal background checks on their sports recruits following the disastrous drafting ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 03, 2016
Gun stolen but quickly recovered
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — A man, described only as a black male in his 20's is spending the beginning of his Labor Day Weekend in the Kalamazoo County Jail after he broke into a car on Michigamme Wo...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 03, 2016
Smokey fire guts home on Stockbridge
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — A stubborn fire in a home that had been cut up into apartments in the Edison Neighborhood has left the building heavily damaged. The occupants had all fled the structure in...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 03, 2016
Jury deliberating ex-teacher's sex charges
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — It will be a nervous Labor Day weekend for former Portage Gym Teacher Corey McNeal who was tried this past week on charges he had an inappropriate relationship with a 17-ye...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 03, 2016
Talks save most of the West Main bus route
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — When Metro Transit switches over to their new expanded routes and longer hours next Wednesday, the West Main Bus will still make the run to the Meijer. A negotiated agreeme...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 03, 2016
Gibson smokestack coming down carefully
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — The smokestack at the old Gibson Guitar plant is being taken down...not demolished but deconstructed brick by brick which will be saved and reconstructed. It's phase one of...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 02, 2016
Valley Dining up and running
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — They snipped the ribbon on the newest facility at WMU which should make the college experience a lot nicer for students who live in the Valley dorms. WMU President John Dun...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 02, 2016




