Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Cell phone targeted by youths on bikes
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Two young males are in custody and a third is being sought after they worked as a team to steal a cell phone from a woman on the Kalamazoo Mall as she was using it. She tol...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jul 14, 2016
VIDEO: Teens produce video with the help of PSOs
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — A video produced by three Kalamazoo teenagers promoting unity between police and the community couldn’t be more timely, given the events of the last week. The childre...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jul 14, 2016
Pilot program helps families overcome abuse
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — A new way to tackle the problem of child abuse is getting a test run in Kalamazoo and two other counties and halfway through the five year trial, they’re happy with t...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jul 14, 2016
Kalamazoo Public Safety heralded for approach
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety is picking up national praise for easing racial tensions. USA Today praised the police agency for evaluating officer effectiveness...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jul 14, 2016
Local court protocols under review after shooting
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Kalamazoo County Sheriff Rick Fuller says he’s reflecting on courtroom protocols after two bailiffs were shot dead at the Berrien County Courthouse on Monday. He said...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jul 14, 2016
Courthouse reopens and funeral plans announced
ST. JOSEPH (WKZO-AM) — The Berrien County Courthouse will reopen to the public Thursday after staff returned to the building Wednesday. Grief counselors were on hand on Wednesday. Offenders and ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jul 13, 2016
Gunman in courthouse killings faced serious charges
ST. JOSEPH (WKZO-AM) — Berrien County’s Prosecutor says Larry Gordon, the Coloma man who killed two bailiffs at the Berrien County Jail on Monday, was facing kidnap, rape and 14 other char...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jul 13, 2016
Young mom to be tried for abusing daughter to death
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Shocking testimony has convinced a Kalamazoo judge that Daveeta Walker should face trial for the murder of her 4-year-old daughter. Testimony revealed that pathologists fou...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jul 13, 2016
Missing man found dead in Barry County
SOUTH HAVEN (WKZO-AM) — The body of a missing South Haven man has been found in Barry County and police are suggesting that it may have been a homicide. Matthew Ahmed Morin had been reported mis...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jul 13, 2016
Teen makes many bad choices all at once
ANTWERP TOWNSHIP (WKZO-AM) — Van Buren County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the 27000 block of County Road 364 very early Tuesday morning on a report of a prowler. The deputies wer...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jul 13, 2016




