Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
10th-annual Kalamazoo Chili Cook-Off set for Saturday
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Organizers aren’t expecting chilly, 30-degree weather to deter people from spooning down bowls of Kalamazoo’s best chili during the city’s 10th-annual dow...
Jan 22, 2016
Teen bound over for trial after Oshtemo Red Roof Inn shooting death
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — A Kalamazoo teen has been bound over to be tried for the shooting death of a Kalamazoo Central High School student just two days into the new year. Nasi Moshe Ben-Yaisrael,...
Jan 22, 2016
Kalamazoo Public Schools urges repeal of bond and millage "gag order" law
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — The Kalamazoo School Board has approved a resolution asking the Michigan Legislature to repeal a recently-signed state law that bans local school districts, municipalities ...
Jan 22, 2016
City: 17 percent of Kalamazoo water pipes are lead, but proper controls are in place
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — The Public Utility Department of Kalamazoo, which supplies tap water to a good portion of Kalamazoo County, is reassuring its customers that they have a good record when it...
Jan 22, 2016
Heads roll, cash flows and the pieces continue to come together in the Flint water crisis
WASHINGTON D.C. (WKZO-AM) — The Flint water crisis has already cost Dan Wyant, the former director of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, and his spokesman, Brad Wurfel, their jobs...
Jan 21, 2016
Lamp near bed causes Battle Creek house fire
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) — A faulty lamp in a 14-year-old’s basement bedroom is being blamed for a fire that caused about $11,000 damage to a home on West Territorial Road in Battle Creek. N...
Jan 21, 2016
Man, driver wanted for purse snatching on Kalamazoo Valley Community College campus in Texas Township
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Public safety officers with Kalamazoo Valley Community College say they’re looking for a man who snatched a purse from a 41-year-old student in a parking lot at the s...
Jan 21, 2016
Two dead in Calhoun County pickup wreck discovered by newspaper delivery person
BATTLE CREEK (WTVB-AM) — Two men in their late 20s from Calhoun County’s Newton Township are dead after a pickup crash early Thursday south of Battle Creek. Michigan State Police were call...
Jan 21, 2016
Parlak given three-month stay, gains new ally in Rep. Upton
WASHINGTON D.C. (WKZO-AM) — Berrien County restaurateur Ibrahim Parlak has a new ally on his side after meeting with Congressman Fred Upton on Wednesday. Parlak won asylum in the 1980s because h...
Jan 21, 2016
Case against Consumers Energy possibly revived over woman killed by fallen power line
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) — A lawsuit filed by the family of a Calhoun County woman who was electrocuted by a fallen Consumers Energy power line may have been revived by an appellate court ruling. ...
Jan 21, 2016
