Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Borgess staff, officials scan time capsule during 125th anniversary celebration
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Staff, nuns from the Sisters of St. Joseph, and hospital officials attended a celebration marking Borgess Medical Center’s 125th anniversary Tuesday afternoon. They t...
Dec 09, 2015
Man bound over for trial following high-speed chase, death of his brother in gunfight with Portage officers
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — A man has been bound over to stand trial for fleeing and eluding and felony gun charges for driving a car during a high-speed chase through Portage that ended with the shoo...
Dec 09, 2015
Proos: Expect energy package to pass by February
LANSING (WKZO-AM) — State Sen. John Proos, R-St. Joseph, says he remains optimistic that lawmakers can pass a package of Michigan energy reforms by February, despite the bills stalling in commit...
Dec 08, 2015
Raise approved for Portage Public Schools superintendent
PORTAGE (WKZO-AM) — The superintendent of Portage Public Schools is getting a raise. Mark Bielang’s pay will jump three percent to just over $201,000. The decision in favor of the pay hike...
Dec 08, 2015
Man sentenced for letting girlfriend freeze to death outside Benton Township home
ST. JOSEPH (WKZO-AM) — A 49-year-old southwest Michigan man who let his drunken girlfriend freeze to death on an unheated porch at the couple’s home on East Empire Avenue in Benton Townshi...
Dec 08, 2015
Allegan man, 22, killed in rollover crash
HOPKINS (WKZO-AM) — A 22-year-old Allegan man is dead after a rollover crash east of Hopkins. The man’s 2006 Chrysler Pacifica was found by a passerby leaning against a tree at around 5 a....
Dec 08, 2015
Man arrested for beating his wife before dropping her off at a hospital in Battle Creek
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) — A man has been charged with aggravated assault for allegedly beating his wife, then dropping her off at the emergency room at Bronson Battle Creek Hospital. The woman ar...
Dec 08, 2015
Man wearing gun prompts lockdown at Lillian Fletcher Elementary in Homer
HOMER (WKZO-AM) — A man prompted a lockdown Monday at Lillian Fletcher Elementary in Homer after he arrived at the school with a holstered gun for the second time in two school days. When confro...
Dec 08, 2015
Kalamazoo City Commission to see if 'Hail Mary' remediation of Allied Paper site is possible
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — After years of debate and confrontation with the Environmental Protection Agency over how to clean up the Allied Paper dump site, and on the verge of having to accept a com...
Dec 08, 2015
MI-OSHA: Kalamazoo Regional Psychiatric Hospital employees were subjected to severe workplace violence
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — State health officials charged that the employees at the Kalamazoo Regional Psychiatric Hospital were not following the rules when it came to handling patients and a number...
Dec 08, 2015
