Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
UPDATE: Deputies release name of hit-and-run victim near Western Mich. Univ.
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — A Western Michigan University student from Fruitport has been struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver in the 5400 block of KL Avenue. Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s dep...
May 12, 2016
UPDATE: Wreck at Oakland Drive in Portage shuts down Westbound I-94
PORTAGE (WKZO-AM) Westbound Interstate 94 was closed at Oakland Drive for hours during the busy afternoon drive home due to a collision between a minivan and a tractor-trailer that left the roadway bl...
May 12, 2016
Michigan pastors to support LGBTQ community by sleeping in tents
OSHTEMO (WKZO-AM) — Several pastors throughout Michigan will sleep in tents Friday to support the Rev. Michael Tupper, who has spent months in a tent outside churches nationwide to show support ...
May 12, 2016
Sturgis, Three Rivers schools win driving safety program contest
DEARBORN (WKZO-AM) — Two southwest Michigan schools have won the top prizes in an annual student driving safety program contest put on by Ford. Forty-four Michigan schools participated in the &#...
May 12, 2016
Lengthy boil water advisory lifted in Lawton
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Officials in Lawton have lifted the village’s three-week boil water advisory. Public Works Supt. Michael Grabbe made the decision after consecutive tests came up clea...
May 12, 2016
UPDATE: Sturgis woman killed after being struck by vehicle
STURGIS (WKZO-AM) — A 20-year-old woman is hospitalized at Bronson Methodist Hospital with life-threatening injuries after being struck by a vehicle while walking her dog near South Centerville ...
May 12, 2016
Portage schools take measures after student gets meninigitis
PORTAGE (WKZO-AM) — Classrooms and common spaces at Portage Northern High School have been disinfected as a precaution after a student was diagnosed with bacterial meningitis earlier this week. ...
May 12, 2016
Oscar-winning composer receives doctorate from Western Michigan University
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Michael Legrand, an Oscar-winning composer, has been given an honorary degree from Western Michigan University officials as part of this year's Gilmore Keyboard Festival. L...
May 12, 2016
Teen formally charged with stabbing in Portage
PORTAGE (WKZO-AM) — Investigators claim a teenager has confessed to attacking a 43-year-old Portage woman with a knife, stabbing her repeatedly in her own kitchen one week ago last Thursday. The...
May 12, 2016
Hit-and-run crash kills Oshtemo man
OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP (WKZO-AM) — A young man is dead after he was struck by a hit-and-run driver along KL Avenue in Oshtemo Township late Wednesday. Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s deputies say he ...
May 12, 2016
