Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Suspect in Portage stabbing jailed
PORTAGE (WKZO-AM) — A suspect is in custody for a stabbing that nearly killed a Portage woman last Thursday in her own home on Cora Drive. Victoria Enos, 43, was admitted to Bronson Methodist Ho...
May 10, 2016
Kalamazoo Public Safety names motorcyclist killed downtown
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — The name of the motorcyclist killed early Saturday downtown has been released by Kalamazoo Public Safety. Investigators say, based on witness accounts, it appears 29-year-o...
May 10, 2016
Public works official: Lawton's three-week boil water advisory could be lifted soon
LAWTON (WKZO-AM) — Residents of Lawton could finally see their boil water advisory lifted by the end of this week. The advisory is now into week three. “It appears to be pointed at one of ...
May 10, 2016
Car nearly split in half after solo wreck outside Decatur [PHOTOS]
DECATUR TOWNSHIP (WKZO-AM) — Drug use may have been a factor in a crash that severely damaged a vehicle on 39th Street near Burgess Road, just northeast of Decatur. Van Buren County Sheriff̵...
May 10, 2016
Portage road work will mean a sacrifice for some homeowners
PORTAGE (WKZO-AM) — Homeowners in the Ringdale Plat in Portage will be losing the extra parking spaces they’ve built into their curb lawns next to their residential streets. It will be mad...
May 10, 2016
Grain storage business in Battle Creek catches fire
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) — Investigators are estimating the damage at Reconserve of Michigan on Angell Street in Battle Creek at over $250,000 after a diesel spill from an end loader sent the vehi...
May 10, 2016
Kalamazoo's "Race for the Cure" lagging in participants, fundraising
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — This year is the 20th anniversary of the Race for the Cure in Kalamazoo, but the fundraiser for breast cancer research has fallen behind this year due to a tragedy. The usu...
May 10, 2016
Ted Nugent to play the Kalamazoo State Theater in August
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Legendary rocker Ted Nugent will stop in Kalamazoo this summer. The “Motor City Madman,” who had his biggest hit in 1977 with “Stranglehold,” will p...
May 10, 2016
Fire in converted commercial building displaces apartment tenants in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Four families have been displaced by a fire that badly damaged a building on Portage Road at Bryant Street in Kalamazoo on Monday night. The old commercial structure had be...
May 09, 2016
South 8th Street closes for culvert repair
The Kalamazoo County Road Commision has closed South 8th Street to thru traffic for culvert repair work. 8th Street is closed between S Avenue in Texas Township and U Avenue in Prairie Ronde Township....
May 09, 2016
