Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Kalamazoo and Benton Harbor pancake restaurants accused of stealing wages, ordered to pay $250,000
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — The U.S. Department of Labor has come down hard on the owners of Sophia’s Pancake House restaurants in Kalamazoo and Benton Harbor. They were purportedly requiring wo...
Feb 17, 2016
Pair of Kalamazoo killers sentenced
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Two Kalamazoo men charged with the shooting deaths of family members have been sentenced after cutting plea deals with the county prosecutor. Timothy Salo, 30, was given 18...
Feb 17, 2016
Kalamazoo Public Schools updated on local literacy program
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — The battle to promote literacy in Kalamazoo continues one family at a time, and, on Monday night, Kalamazoo Public Schools board members got an update from the front lines....
Feb 17, 2016
Major employer in Bronson closing, 125 people to lose jobs
BRONSON (WKZO-AM) — A major employer in the Branch County city of Bronson is shuttering operations at the end of March, eliminating 125 jobs. Bronson Precision Products, which manufactures machi...
Feb 17, 2016
Nashville man who had sex with girl with Down syndrome to spend rest of life in prison
BARRY COUNTY (WKZO-AM) — A Barry County man will spend the next 40 to 60 years in prison for molesting an eight-year-old girl with Down syndrome. David Carl Heinsen, a 69-year-old from Nashville...
Feb 17, 2016
Calhoun, Kalamazoo County heroin's added deadliness blamed on prescription drug
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Officals say a rash of heroin deaths in Kalamazoo and Calhoun counties may be due to drug dealers cutting their illicit substances with the prescription drug Fentanyl. That...
Feb 17, 2016
County-to-county chase ends near Tekonsha, New Jersey man arrested
TEKONSHA (WKZO-AM) — A 40-year-old New Jersey man is behind bars after leading law enforcement on a chase that started in Jackson County and ended in Calhoun County. They say the driver bolted d...
Feb 17, 2016
Robbers at large after gunpoint robbery at Western Michigan University
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Police are looking for two men who robbed a Western Michigan University student at gunpoint on the school’s Kalamazoo campus. The school says the student, who lives i...
Feb 17, 2016
Woman sought after approaching Allegan County high school student at bus stop, offering ride
OTSEGO (WKZO-AM) — Parents, guardians and students are being told to be on the lookout for a woman who offered to give an Allegan County high school student a ride to school as she was waiting a...
Feb 16, 2016
Stabenow-written legislation would offer student loan refinancing, grant increases and free community college
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow made a stop at Western Michigan University on Tuesday to talk with a handful of students about legislation she has authored that would reduce the ...
Feb 16, 2016
