Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Charges reduced against teenager who stabbed alleged bully in neck with pencil
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) — Prosecutors in Calhoun County have reduced the charges against a student at Springfield Middle School who stabbed an alleged bully in the neck with a pencil, after she w...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jan 23, 2016
Victims identified after fatal wreck in Newton Township
NEWTON TOWNSHIP (WKZO-AM) — The Marshall half-brothers who died after crashing their pickup into a tree in Calhoun County’s Newton Township have been identified as 23-year-old Carl Burling...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jan 23, 2016
Hastings woman ruled competent to stand trial after shooting death of Portage woman
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — A Hastings woman who allegedly shot and killed another woman on the driveway of her home in Portage because she was dating her ex-boyfriend, has been found competent to sta...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jan 23, 2016
Prosecutor: October mobile home park shooting in Oshtemo was in self-defense
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — He shot and killed a man who charged at him in a drunken rage after hearing the screams of a woman. He’s no hero, but Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeff Getting says he...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jan 23, 2016
Two injured, charges pending in Bloomingdale crash
BLOOMINGDALE (WHTC-AM) — A two-vehicle crash late Friday afternoon in Bloomingdale hospitalized both drivers, but their legal troubles may linger long after their physical ailments have healed. ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jan 22, 2016
Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office holding Flint bottled water drive on Saturday
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — The Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Office is hoping to drive a semi-trailer full of help to Flint on Saturday. “We’ll have a 50-foot semi sitting along Lamont...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jan 22, 2016
Seven meth labs found in condemned Battle Creek house
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) — Two men a woman are jailed after Battle Creek police say they were found cooking methamphetamine in a condemned house on Mosher Avenue. After receiving a tip, seven labs...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jan 22, 2016
Trial to continue Friday for officer accused of inappropriate sexual behavior with relatives, minor
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Testimony will continue Friday in the trial of an Emmett Township Public Safety officer charged with inappropriate sexual behavior with female relatives in both Calhoun and...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jan 22, 2016
Man arrested for role in 1988 shooting death of man in Van Buren County, body dumping in Allegan County
ALLEGAN COUNTY (WKZO-AM) — It has been 28 years since, according to police, Junior Fred Blackston shot Charles Miller in the head because of a drug debt, pushing his body into a shallow, four-fo...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jan 22, 2016
Nienstedt out at church in Battle Creek amidst concerns from parishioners
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) — A controversial leader in the Catholic church who came to Battle Creek to help out in the St. Phillips Parish has decided to bow out of the temporary appointment, follow...
localnews@mwcradio.com Jan 22, 2016




