Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Sales tax impact affects tax returns
LANSING (WKZO) — If voters pass a one-percent sales tax increase when they head to the polls in May, they could also be increasing the amount they pay on their federal income taxes. Included in ...
Jan 29, 2015
Two Van Buren County Sheriffs Cruisers wrecked along I-94
PAW PAW (WKZO) — Freezing rain made for icy roads that resulted in a pair of crashes involving Van Buren County Sheriff’s vehicles on eastbound I-94 in Paw Paw. Around 2:15 a.m. Thursday a...
Jan 29, 2015
Law proposed to protect sports officials from angry fans
LANSING (WKZO) — Michigan teams have had their share of bad calls during ball games and now a proposed law would protect the refs and umpires from angry fans. Some Lions fans are still angry abo...
Jan 29, 2015
Gas prices jump back up over $2.00
CHICAGO (WKZO) –Gas prices have jumped up 30 to 40-cents to $2.19/gallon, and this may be just the first of a series of gasonline price hikes as the spring and the summer driving season approach...
Jan 29, 2015
Portage crash causes power outage
PORTAGE (WKZO) — A drive-time crash on busy East Centre Avenue diverted traffic for about an hour Wednesday evening. Portage Public Safety officers say a 56-year-old Portage resident suffered an...
Jan 29, 2015
Freezing rain makes travel treacherous for morning commute
WEST MICHIGAN (WKZO) –Freezing rain left a thin layer of ice on everything this morning, closing a number of school districts for the day and causing a number of accidents. One involved a Van Bu...
Jan 29, 2015
Peters amendment to the Keystone Pipeline bill rejected
WASHINGTON D.C. (WKZO) –Michigan's new senator has suffered his first legislative defeat. Saying he would hate to see a repeat of the Enbridge oil spill happen elsewhere in the state or the nati...
Jan 29, 2015
Portage Cemeteries are now online
PORTAGE (WKZO) — Portage's cemetery records have gone digital and are now online. For anyone interested in genealogy, cemetery records can make tracing ancestors much easier. Burial and ownershi...
Jan 29, 2015
Report blames WalMart for American obesity
CAMBRIDGE (WKZO) — WalMart supercenters are expanding the American waistline. That’s one of the conclusions of a new report published the National Bureau of Economic Research. The research...
Jan 28, 2015
University of Michigan professor receives award
ANN ARBOR (WKZO) — University of Michigan poet and professor Lorna Goodison is the 2015 winner of the Shirley Verrett Award. The award is presented each year by the university’s Women of C...
Jan 28, 2015
