Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
State settlement for the Enbridge oil spill valued at 75-million
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO) — The Attorney General and The Michigan DEQ have announced a $75-million dollar settlement with Enbridge Energy over that massive oil spill on Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazo...
localnews@mwcradio.com May 13, 2015
Its 100 and counting at GM's comp fund
DETROIT (WKZO) — It's a milestone of a sort for the GM Ignition Compensation fund. They have approved their 100th death claim. So far they have also approved compensation for 172 injury victims,...
localnews@mwcradio.com May 12, 2015
Detectives have arrested State Senator Virgil Smith
DETROIT (WKZO) — There are two very different stories coming out about a weekend confrontation between State Senator Virgil Smith and his ex-wife. She claims he greeted her at the door naked, be...
localnews@mwcradio.com May 12, 2015
Allegan County Teen to be sentenced for assault, rape and murder
ALLEGAN COUNTY (WKZO) — A Hopkins teen will spend most of his adult life behind bars for raping and killing an older female cousin and slitting his grandmother's throat after agreeing to plea de...
localnews@mwcradio.com May 12, 2015
Good news on road funding in Kalamazoo Township
KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP (WKZO) — While state lawmakers wring their hands over what to do to fix the state's roads, the story couldn't be more different in Kalamazoo Township where voters passed local...
localnews@mwcradio.com May 12, 2015
Meth lab raided in Portage
PORTAGE (WKZO) — Portage investigators are just waiting for lab results to confirm their suspicious before seeking drug and gun charges against a couple living in the 52-hundred block of Regay S...
localnews@mwcradio.com May 12, 2015
Authorities search for fugitive in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO (WKZO)– The Kalamazoo County Sheriff’s Department is asking for the public's help to find 36-year-old FAITH ANN SIMPSON who may be staying in the 1200 block of West Paterson in K...
localnews@mwcradio.com May 11, 2015
Suspects in early Monday morning home invasion captured
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO)-The two suspects in a violent home invasion in the 200 block of Waubascon Road are in custody and facing multiple felonies this afternoon in Calhoun County. The owner of the home s...
localnews@mwcradio.com May 11, 2015
Kalamazoo Deputy injured by cars hitting storm damage
COOPER TOWNSHIP (WKZO) — A Kalamazoo County Deputy suffered a fractured ankle and another man was pinned under a car after a second driver hit the tree they were trying to remove from North Rive...
localnews@mwcradio.com May 11, 2015
Teen dies after confrontation with Battle Creek Police
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO) — A suicidal teen who warned police he wanted to commit "suicide by cop" ended up dead after he confronted two officers on the Linear Park path north of the Police Department...
localnews@mwcradio.com May 10, 2015




