Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
UPDATE: Fire damages Galesburg Meat Company
GALESBURG (WKZO-AM) — Crews say an early-morning fire gutted the Galesburg Meat Company facility on Mill Street. It happened at around 3:30 a.m. Thursday. The fire was extinguished at around 6 a...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jun 23, 2016
Pickett charged with operating while intoxicated
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — The Battle Creek man accused of crashing a pickup into a group of nine bicyclists along North Westnedge Avenue in Cooper Township earlier this month has been charged with f...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jun 22, 2016
Hearing unlikely for Garland before year's end
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — A professor at the Western Michigan University Cooley Law School says there’s no chance Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland will get a Senate hearing before the end...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jun 22, 2016
Fuller supports bill banning weaponized drones
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Kalamazoo County Sheriff Rick Fuller says he’s pleased about new House legislation that would prohibit Michigan residents from weaponizing drones. Fuller says he want...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jun 22, 2016
Three wanted for Oshtemo pizza place hold-up
OSHTEMO (WKZO-AM) — Three men in their early 20s are on the lam after holding up a pizza place in Oshtemo Township. Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s detectives say two of the thieves brandished ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jun 22, 2016
Murder suspect Christopher Carpenter back in court
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) — Barring any delays, the man Battle Creek police say is responsible for a heinous act of domestic abuse will be in court today, to hear the evidence against him. Christop...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jun 22, 2016
Rough day for waterbuck at Binder Park Zoo
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) — An escaped animal at the Binder Park Zoo shut down the Wild Africa Exhibit for a couple of hours late Tuesday morning. Zoo officials says Neva, a female waterbuck, was s...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jun 22, 2016
Hickory Corners man dies in head-on crash
BERRIEN SPRINGS (WKZO-AM) — Funeral services for a Hickory Corners man have been set for Saturday after he was killed in a head-on collision near the Indiana border on Monday. Police in Berrien ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jun 22, 2016
$80,000 garage fire in Portage
PORTAGE (WKZO-AM) — Portage Public Safety says a fire in a detached garade in the 6500 block of Monticello Avenue caused an estimated $80,000 damage late Monday afternoon. The first crews arrive...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jun 22, 2016
County commissioners consider "complete streets"
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — It looks like there are enough votes on the Kalamazoo County Commission to approve a “complete streets” resolution in two weeks. Spurred on by the tragic death ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jun 22, 2016




