Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Woman on lawnmower struck by car
ROSS TOWNSHIP (WKZO)– A freak accident between a car and a lawnmower has cost Ross Township woman her life. Kalamazoo County Deputies say 59-year-old Deborah Kay Smith was mowing her lawn in the...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 05, 2015
Dangerous plant found in Calhoun County, immediately eradicated
PENNFIELD TOWNSHIP (WKZO)– An invasive species that has an acute defense mechanism to protect it from humans has appeared in Calhoun County. Giant Hogweed is native to Central Asia, but was once...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 04, 2015
Blue Ribbon Task Force drills down on the Income Tax
KALAMAZOO (WKZO)– Kalamazoo's Blue Ribbon Revenue Task force got a detailed report on how a hypothetical income tax would impact taxpayers and the results shows there would clearly be winners an...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 04, 2015
Hammer time at the Dollar General in Galesburg
GALESBURG (WKZO) — Kalamazoo County Deputies are looking for a large white male who robbed the Dollar General Store in Galesburg, using a claw hammer he found at the store to threaten the clerk....
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 04, 2015
UPDATE: Election Day results
KALAMAZOO (WKZO)– Voters in Kalamazoo, Portage and their surrounding townships have approved a millage to expand bus services, but that's just part of what was approved Tuesday. By approving the...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 04, 2015
Police release composite sketch of mugging suspect
KALAMAZOO (WKZO) — Kalamazoo County Deputies have released a composite sketch of a black male who allegedly accosted a woman at 4312 Grand Prairie, in Richland, grabbing her purse and dragging h...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 04, 2015
School Board recall petitions delivered in Three Rivers
CENTREVILLE (WKZO) — The St. Joseph County Clerk's office will go to work this week to see if a citizens group collected enough valid petition signatures to force a recall election targeting thr...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 03, 2015
Fire damages residential property in Portage
PORTAGE (WKZO) — A fire that broke out at about 1 this morning in the bedroom of a home in the 14-hundred block of Jonathan has left the family that lived their looking for temporary shelter. Fi...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 03, 2015
Fire on Kalamazoo's east side displaces 20
KALAMAZOO (WKZO)– A fire Sunday evening in an apartment in the 300 block of Phelps in Kalamazoo's East Side neighborhood has forced the evacuation of 7 other apartments and left about 20 people ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 03, 2015
North side shootings leave four wounded in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO (WKZO) — Two separate early Sunday morning shootings on Kalamazoo's north side left four people wounded. Public Safety responded to Florence St. at 3:35 am after reports of multiple sh...
localnews@mwcradio.com Aug 02, 2015




