Category Archives: Kalamazoo News

KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — After several delays, months of work and thousands of dollars in expenditures, Woods Lake Park has been reopened to the public, just in time for the Memorial Day weekend. O...

KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s detectives say they’ve arrested two suspects in a stolen vehicle and theft ring. Both suspects, who were found in a car stolen out of...

LANSING (WKZO-AM) — State Sen. John Proos, R-St. Joseph, is urging Memorial Day motorists to be on the lookout for gouging at the pump. Proos said drivers should report gas stations that are tak...

KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — A cab driver convicted on kidnap and rape charges has been ordered back to Kalamazoo for resentencing. Robert Prescott was already a felon on parole when he got a second ch...

KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Flying somewhere on vacation this summer? TSA Administrator Peter Neffenger told the Homeland Security Committee in Congress this week that long lines at major airports wil...

PAW PAW (WKZO-AM) — Van Buren County has agreed to pay $75,000 to the family of 16-year-old Ethan Jelsomeno who was critically injured when his parent’s car was struck by a speeding sherif...

KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Imagine living in fear that at any time you could be arrested for failing to pay a traffic citation or some other civil fine and hauled off to jail. Thousands live with tha...

PENNFIELD TOWNSHIP (WKZO-AM) — One man is dead and four dozen others are homeless after a raging fire at the Pines of Pennfield destroyed half the 24 apartments in one structure and left the res...

PENNFIELD TOWNSHIP (WTVB-AM) — Flames shot through the roof of a three-story apartment building at the Pines of Pennfield complex on the north side of Battle Creek Wednesday morning. The blaze w...

KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — The Diocese of Kalamazoo is moving forward with a priest reassignment plan. Bishop Paul Bradley said they’re having trouble staffing each of their parishes individual...