Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Ibrahim Parlak granted another year extension
HARBERT (WKZO-AM) — Ibraham Parlak has been given another year reprieve on a deportation order while the U.S. Department of Homeland Security sorts out his fate. Shifting politics in the Middle ...
Mar 26, 2016
Legislative tempers flare over the issue of LGBTQ rights in public schools
LANSING (WKZO-AM) — The Michigan Department of Education and the Michigan State Board of Education has decided to extend a comment period on proposed guidelines for schools on how to treat lesbi...
Mar 26, 2016
Child arrested, could face charges after threat against Battle Creek school
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) — Police say a Battle Creek middle school student could be charged after he sent a text message to his mother threatening gun violence against Northwestern Middle School. ...
Mar 25, 2016
Police jail 18 in Kalamazoo for sex offender registry violations
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Michigan State Police say 18 sex offenders wanted on warrants for violations of the state’s sex offender registration law are back behind bars after a week-long sweep...
Mar 25, 2016
Kalamazoo Valley Museum upgrades mural for anniversary of Lincoln visit, speech
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — The Kalamazoo Valley Museum is celebrating the 160th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s visit to the city by sprucing up a mural containing a likeness of the former pre...
Mar 25, 2016
Senate, Proos asks federal government for stricter Asian carp controls
LANSING (WKZO-AM) — The Michigan Senate has agreed to ask the federal government to install technology in Illinois waters that would stop the spread of Asian Carp into Lake Michigan and beyond. ...
Mar 25, 2016
Youngest Kalamazoo shooting victim could be released from rehab in about a month
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Doctors monitoring the progress of the youngest Kalamazoo shooting victim say she could be heading home in about a month. They were expecting Abigail Kopf to leave a rehab ...
Mar 25, 2016
Sabastien Bellin talking to reporters from his Brussels hospital bed
BRUSSELS (WKZO-AM) — Belgian terrorist bombing survivor Sabastien Bellin of Battle Creek says it was his family that got him through the ordeal of nearly losing his leg when the bombs went off a...
Mar 25, 2016
Michigan Department of Natural Resources: Crows near Springfield killed by Amtrak train
SPRINGFIELD (WKZO-AM) — The Department of Natural Resources says hundreds of crows died from blunt-force trauma when they were struck by one or more Amtrak trains in western Calhoun County earli...
Mar 25, 2016
Repeat offender caught again in Kalamazoo with methamphetamine
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — A 37-year-old man is in custody again after he was caught in a rolling methamphetamine lab in Kalamazoo. The suspect and a 26-year-old female were the targets of a complian...
Mar 25, 2016
