Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Portage Public Safety chases teen on dirt bike
PORTAGE (WKZO) — A 16-year-old from Schoolcraft is sitting in the kalamazoo County Juvenile Home today after he led Portage Public Safety officers on a wild cross country chase along western Por...
Apr 02, 2015
Lt. Governor says don't count out Proposal 1 yet
GRAND RAPIDS (WKZO) –Michigan Lieutenant Governor Brian Calley isn’t dismayed by poll numbers showing Proposal 1 on the May ballot with just 24-percent support. Speaking in Grand Rapids th...
Apr 02, 2015
Mother who allegedly froze her dead children charged with Murder
DETROIT (WKZO) — Murder charges are now in place against Mitchelle Blair of Detroit for the deaths of two of her children who were found in a freezer in her apartment. Blair had initially been c...
Apr 02, 2015
Debbie Stabenow campaigns for Alzheimer's legislation in Lansing
KALAMAZOO (WKZO) — Senator Debbie Stabenow has been traversing the state to raise support for her "Hope for Alzheimers Act". At a forum in Kalamazoo's Senior Services Incorporated offices, Stabe...
Apr 02, 2015
Grass fire season just beginning
OSHTEMO TOWNSHIP (WKZO) — You may have seen the plume of brown smoke rising from Oshtemo in the afternoon, that was just one of many grass fires springing up in the area. It began as a permitted...
Apr 02, 2015
Big fish in a small pond now a record breaker for a Barry County man
LANSING (WKZO) — It will never win a prize as the prettiest fish in the Lake, but a Middleville man can now claim the state record for the biggest Freshwater Drum ever caught in Michigan. Mark L...
Apr 01, 2015
Fiat Chrysler U.S. auto sales in March meet expectations
DETROIT (Reuters) – Fiat Chrysler Automobiles on Wednesday said U.S. vehicle sales rose 2 percent in March, meeting analysts’ expectations. It was the 60th consecutive month of year-to-yea...
Apr 01, 2015
The Final Four will be tough tickets to get
INDIANAPOLIS (WKZO) — There will be no cheap seats in Indianapolis for the Final Four this weekend, the only tickets available start at ridiculously expensive and climb all the way to budget-cru...
Apr 01, 2015
Graphics Packaging in Battle Creek catches fire
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO) — Battle Creek officials are reporting minimal damage was done to the facilities at Graphic Packaging off of East Fountain Street after an early morning fire Tuesday during t...
Apr 01, 2015
Pepper spray incident at Kalamazoo Central disrupts school day
KALAMAZOO (WKZO) — Kalamazoo School officials say a discharge of pepper spray that cleared 8-classrooms on the second floor of Kalamazoo Central Tuesday afternoon was accidental, but that doesn'...
Apr 01, 2015
