Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Gun forum in downtown Kalamazoo reveals sharp differences over gun laws
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Rep. John Hoadley held a forum on the gun issue Monday night. Kalamazoo’s mass murder in February has inspired some local residents to call for more gun regulations, ...
Apr 05, 2016
Four-year-old Kalamazoo boy ID'd after fatal crash in Kalamazoo Township
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — The four-year-old Kalamazoo boy killed in a rollover crash on the U.S. 131 business loop near North Westnedge Avenue in Kalamazoo Township has been identified as Jayden Joh...
Apr 04, 2016
Burglar confronted by homeowner with a gun now in custody in Battle Creek
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) — A burglar broke into a home in the 100 Block of West Territorial through the front door at 5:45 a.m. Sunday and was immediately confronted by the homeowner wielding a gu...
Apr 04, 2016
Battle Creek burglar's getaway foiled by a traffic stop
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) — A Battle Creek man is expected to be charged with home invasion after he allegedly sped away from the crime scene and was stopped in a traffic stop early Sunday afternoo...
Apr 04, 2016
Michigan State Supreme Court Justices will hear the Lorinda Swain appeal this week
CALHOUN COUNTY (WKZO-AM) — Lorinda Swain of Burlington will finally get her day before the Michigan Supreme Court this Wednesday. She was convicted in 2002 of molesting an adopted boy and served...
Apr 04, 2016
Kalamazoo commissioners to be asked to buy body cameras for public safety officers
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Kalamazoo’s Department of Public Safety has spent the last year road-testing body camera systems and will ask city commissioners on Monday to approve a contract to bu...
Apr 04, 2016
Vandals hit cemetery near Sturgis over the weekend
STURGIS (WKZO-AM) — There has been another cemetery desecration in southwest Michigan. This time, police in Sturgis are looking for the vandals who went into Oaklawn Cemetery over the weekend an...
Apr 03, 2016
Two Kalamazoo Public Safety Officers injured in weather related crash
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Two Kalamazoo Public Safety officers are recovering from injuries they suffered when they were tangled up in a crash caused by a drunk driver early Sunday morning on an icy...
Apr 03, 2016
Kalamazoo Township man dies in high-speed crash
KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP (WKZO-AM) — Kalamazoo Township investigators say a young man driving an old Toyota Camry at a high rate of speed eastbound on Mosel Avenue has been killed when the car went ou...
Apr 03, 2016
Police find three-state robbery suspects in Ohio [UPDATE]
STEUBEN COUNTY, Ind. (WKZO-AM) — Police agencies in three states are looking for a Branch County couple for a string of bank robberies and other heists. Steuben County, Ind., alone has issued se...
Apr 03, 2016
