Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Faster test results for safer Michigan beaches
LANSING (WKZO) — Michigan will be the first state to monitor beaches using a new rapid test technology that they are adapting for water quality. It can identify E.coli DNA in a water sample in a...
Jun 19, 2015
"Freezer Mom" says send me to prison
DETROIT (WKZO) — Mitchelle Blair told a Wayne County Judge Friday she would “happily” do a sentence of life in prison for killing two of her children. The Detroit woman was found com...
Jun 19, 2015
Amy Pelletier bound over for trial
KALAMAZOO (WKZO)– 39-year-old Amy Pelletier, one of the two sisters involved in an armed stand-off with police earlier this month has waived her preliminary hearing and will proceed to trial. On...
Jun 19, 2015
Death by train investigated in Mattawan
MATTAWAN (WKZO) — Police in Mattawan have released the name of a man who they believe may have intentionally stepped out in front of an Amtrak train on Thursday. They are investigating the death...
Jun 19, 2015
Two record fish confirmed by the Department of Natural Resources
LANSING (WKZO) Two new state-record fish have been caught in West Michigan, but they couldn't be more different. The Department of Natural Resources says bowfisherman Sage Colgrove of Muskegon shot a ...
Jun 19, 2015
Local lawmaker behind move to drop the minimum wage for older teens
LANSING (WKZO) — The Michigan State Senate will take up legislation dropping the minimum wage for 18- and 19-year-olds in Michigan to 85 percent of the general minimum wage in Michigan or the fe...
Jun 19, 2015
New arrest in last year's shoot out on Kalamazoo's North Street.
KALAMAZOO (WKZO) — Kalamazoo Public Safety has made another arrest for the shooting death ofOrlando David Walker, who died near a Kalamazoo Street Corner on a warm July Sunday night last year. P...
Jun 18, 2015
Former VA Director admits he took money from clients
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO) — Scott Locey, the former Director of Veterans Affairs for Calhoun County as entered guilty pleas to three high court misdemeanors in a plea deal with prosecutors. He was cha...
Jun 18, 2015
High water levels and fast boats threaten lakeside homes in Kalamazoo area
KALAMAZOO (WKZO) — Kalamazoo County Sheriff Richard Fuller is warning boaters to slow it down on inland lakes in the county, particularly ones that are at high levels because of all the rain we ...
Jun 18, 2015
Four arrested in meth raid
CASS COUNTY (WKZO) — Four people are in custody in Cass County, charged with various meth counts. The Cass County Drug Enforcement Team raided a trailer park on Stateline Road, targeting Lot 67....
Jun 18, 2015
