Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
KVCC students spearheading bottled water drive for Flint
TEXAS TOWNSHIP (WKZO-AM) — Two Kalamazoo Valley Community College Students are spearheading a bottled water collection drive on campus to help Flint children. Film and public relations majors Ja...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 04, 2016
Kalamazoo Winter Jamboree rescheduled, lack of snow being blamed
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Kalamazoo’s Winter Jamboree was scheduled for this Saturday, but the joint Kalamazoo and Portage Parks and recreation programs have been forced to reschedule because ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 04, 2016
School, municipal officials seeking injunction on Michigan's new ballot "gag order" law
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Michigan school and municipal officials will ask a federal judge on Thursday to slap a temporary injunction on the state to keep it from enforcing the new so-called “...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 04, 2016
Former Portage basketball coach, gym teacher to stand trial for alleged sexual relationship with high school student
PORTAGE (WKZO-AM) — A former Portage basketball coach is going to trial for an affair with a student. Corey McNeal, who taught elementary physical education, has been bound over to stand trial f...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 04, 2016
Calhoun County sergeant shoots armed robbery suspect
SPRINGFIELD (WKZO-AM) — An officer-involved shooting has left an armed robbery suspect hospitalized after a confrontation with a Calhoun County Sheriff’s sergeant on North 30th Street in S...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 03, 2016
Congressional oversight committee seeks answers to explain Flint water crisis
WASHINGTON D.C. (WKZO-AM) — The Flint water crisis was the topic at a congressional oversight hearing that began in Washington with lawmakers questioning their own chairman for taking Gov. Rick ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 03, 2016
$100K matching grant awarded to Battle Creek catholic schools
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) — Catholic schools in Battle Creek could be getting a big boost if local businesses and residents feel the urge to open their pocketbooks. An anonymous foundation has agre...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 03, 2016
Kalamazoo resident in critical condition after wreck at Portage intersection
PORTAGE (WKZO-AM) — A 25-year-old from Kalamazoo is hospitalized in critical condition after a two-car crash in Portage. It happened at around 11:40 p.m. Tuesday after a 2003 Toyota Rav 4 ignore...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 03, 2016
Traffic stop yields meth lab arrest in Watervliet Township
WATERVLIET (WKZO-AM) — Sheriff’s deputies in Berrien County say a Portage man is jailed after a one-pot methamphetamine lab was found in his car during a traffic stop in Watervliet Townshi...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 03, 2016
Haven of Rest in Battle Creek serves 80,000 meals in 2015
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) — A Battle Creek homeless shelter says it had an extremely busy 2015. Haven of Rest served 80,000 meals to 2,300 of the city’s most-vulnerable residents in its secon...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 03, 2016




