Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Search continues for fishermen adrift on Lake Michigan
LAKE MICHIGAN (WKZO-AM) — The search continues for two boaters from the city of Wyoming who are apparently lost on Lake Michigan. The relatives of 40-year-old Aaron Juarez and 25-year-old Christ...
Oct 01, 2015
Man wanted in Battle Creek for weekend home break-in
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) — Police say they’re looking for a man who broke into a home on Bryant Street. Detectives say a six-foot-tall burglar with a dark complexion broke a kitchen window a...
Oct 01, 2015
Burning books prompt fire department call to abandoned school in Emmett Township
EMMETT TOWNSHIP (WKZO-AM) — Police are investigating after firefighters were called to put out a pile of burning books at Wattles Park Junior High School on Crosby Drive. The discovery at the ab...
Oct 01, 2015
Detectives investigating another Calhoun County vehicle window blowout
ATHENS (WKZO-AM) — Investigators are looking into an incident on M-66 near Athens on Wednesday, where a woman claims the driver’s side window of her SUV suddenly shattered from what she be...
Oct 01, 2015
Reward increased for Paw Paw football field vandal
PAW PAW (WKZO-AM) — The reward is up to $1,250 for information leading to the arrest of the vandals who poured weed killer on a youth football field in Paw Paw. Rocket Football and Cheer says th...
Oct 01, 2015
Kalamazoo families mourn local children lost to cancer
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — Dozens of families from Kalamazoo who have lost a child to cancer, or are battling to save one, attended a vigil on the Downtown Mall on Wednesday. Mary Kay Pederson with C...
Oct 01, 2015
Lakeside for Children kicks off health and wellness, athletic facility campaign
KALAMAZOO (WKZO-AM) — An agency that acts as a sanctuary and school for abused and troubled children is getting set to launch a capital campaign to improve its health and wellness programming, a...
Oct 01, 2015
State: Fumes from Kalamazoo River oil spill shouldn't cause long-term health problems
LANSING (WKZO-AM) — State officials say Kalamazoo and Calhoun County residents who inhaled chemical fumes after the rupture of an Enbridge Energy oil pipeline in July 2010 shouldn’t experi...
Sep 30, 2015
Party store held up at knifepoint in Niles, second robbery in less than a week
NILES (WKZO-AM) — Michigan State Police are investigating the armed robbery of another party store in Niles. Investigators say the hold-up happened before 10 p.m. Tuesday at the Sunrise Corners ...
Sep 30, 2015
Men arrested after leading chase in vehicle stolen from elderly person in Battle Creek
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO-AM) — A 24-year-old and a 26-year-old are jailed after leading Battle Creek police on a chase in a stolen car. The vehicle was taken from the residence of an 84-year-old durin...
Sep 30, 2015
