Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
General Motors approves more death claims
DETROIT (WKZO) — The General Motors victim compensation fund has approved three new death claims in the past week. That brings the total so far to 45. Additionally there have now been 67 injury ...
Jan 13, 2015
Former priest charged with sexual abuse in 1980s
LANSING (WKZO) — A former priest behind bars in Oklahoma is now facing several felony charges in Michigan for allegedly sexually abusing young boys in the state in the 1980s. Seventy-four-year-o...
Jan 13, 2015
Bakery employee allegedly admits putting nuts, bolts into granola
KENTWOOD (WKZO) — An employee of Hearthside Foods Bakery in Kentwood is facing up to a decade in prison after being accused of putting a handful of nuts and bolts into the mix for granola bars. ...
Jan 13, 2015
Eighteen-year-old charged in deadly Holland shooting
HOLLAND (WKZO) — An 18-year-old is in the Ottawa County Jail on 200-thousand dollars bond in connection with a fatal shooting at an apartment complex in Holland last week. Davon Walker was charg...
Jan 13, 2015
Michigan Senator Emmons honored as Liberator of the Year
LANSING (WKZO) — Michigan Senator Judy Emmons was honored on National Human Trafficking Awareness Day for her work fighting crime. She was given the Michigan Liberator of the Year Award at a cer...
Jan 13, 2015
Governor Snyder cancels Switzerland trip
LANSING (WKZO) — Governor Snyder will not be heading to Switzerland next week for an economic meeting. He has canceled the trip on the advice of his doctors after rupturing an Achilles tendon wh...
Jan 13, 2015
Police release 911 calls from I-94 pileup
KALAMAZOO (WKZO) — The 911 calls made during the 193-vehicle pileup on Interstate 94 on Friday are now being made public and the terror felt by drivers is evident. In one call, a man yells at th...
Jan 13, 2015
Michigan State Police investigate I-94 pileup
PAW PAW (WKZO) — Michigan State Police have a huge task at hand in trying to figure out exactly what caused a huge 193-vehicle pileup on Interstate 94 near the Kalamazoo and Calhoun county line ...
Jan 13, 2015
Governor signs road bill
LANSING (WKZO) –Gov. Rick Snyder has signed legislation that will theoretically provide most of the funding the state needs to restore Michigan's crumbling roads and bridges, that's if voters ag...
Jan 13, 2015
Lorinda Swain will remain free on tether for now
BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP (WKZO) –Lorinda Swain will remain out of prison and on a tether while her attorneys at the University of Michigan Innocence Clinic pursue her appeal with the State Supreme Co...
Jan 13, 2015
