Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Two dead, woman hurt after head-on motorcycle wreck in Branch County
SHERWOOD TOWNSHIP (WKZO-AM) — A head-on collision between two motorcycles in Branch County has killed two bikers and left a female passenger seriously injured. The crash occurred around 8:40 p.m...
Sep 21, 2015
FBI arrests kidnapper in West Michigan
UPDATE: The alleged kidnapper was arrested Sunday in Holland, the FBI said. ORIGINAL STORY: HOLLAND (WKZO-AM) — The FBI is leading the search for a black, heavy-set male who violently assaulted ...
Sep 20, 2015
Driver falls asleep and lands in Mill Pond
CASS COUNTY (WKZO) — 20-year-old Caleb G-Joseph-Glenn Jones got a rude awakening after he took a nap very early Saturday morning at about 1 a.m. He had only himself to blame because, Jones was b...
Sep 20, 2015
Jeep takes out Portage power pole and closes roads
PORTAGE (WKZO) — Portage investigators have ruled out alcohol as the cause of a crash that sent a Jeep careening into a power pole in the 700 block of West Milham Avenue early Sunday morning. Po...
Sep 20, 2015
Car crash injures two on Portage's west side
PORTAGE (WKZO) — A woman from Portage and a man from Bitely are recovering from minor injuries after the car they were riding in slammed into the guardrails and a bridge support underneath Inter...
Sep 20, 2015
Rand Paul wins GOP straw poll on Mackinac Island
MACKINAC ISLAND (WKZO) — The five top finishers in this weekend's straw poll at the Michigan GOP Leadership Conference on Mackinac Island are the five who actually showed up. That was probably t...
Sep 20, 2015
Mother of 13-year-old convicted killer guilty of child abuse
GRAND RAPIDS (WKZO-AM) — The mother of a child who just became Kent County’s youngest convicted killer has been found guilty of third-degree child abuse. Prosecutors say Anita Lawhorn abus...
Sep 19, 2015
Perrigo trying to fend off hostile takeover through litigation
ALLEGAN (WKZO-AM) — Perrigo, one of Allegan County’s largest employers, is going beyond just telling their stock holders to reject the latest hostile takeover bid from Mylan. They have fil...
Sep 19, 2015
State officials trying to determine Gamrat's eligibility after House expulsion
ALLEGAN (WKZO-AM) — The Michigan Secretary of State’s Office is investigating whether Cindy Gamrat is eligible to run for reelection, given that she was expelled from the state House. Ther...
Sep 19, 2015
68-year-old woman attacked in Meijer parking lot by purse-snatcher
OSHTEMO (WKZO-AM) — Sheriff’s deputies are looking for a man who failed to snatch a purse from a 68-year-old Kalamazoo woman in the parking lot of the Meijer on West Main Street in Oshtemo...
Sep 19, 2015
