Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Free Fishing Weekend could be a real challenge this weekend
LANSING (WKZO) — Just in case you were wondering, frozen fishsticks are not caught by Ice Fisherman. You could prove this to yourself this weekend, which is one of two Free Fishing Weekends in M...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 12, 2015
West Michigan reenters the deep freeze
GRAND RAPIDS (WKZO) — A series of winter blasts are lining up to keep west Michigan in the deep freeze for the next week, maybe longer. Wind out of the north could bring sunshine and some of the...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 12, 2015
Lawmakers go to bat for colleges and strike out
LANSING (WKZO) –The MIRS News Agency reports that Sen. Tonya SCHUITMAKER and Rep. Mike MCCREADY who chair the senate and House Higher Education committees asked Governor Snyder to increase fundi...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 12, 2015
Robert Prescott finally sentenced
KALAMAZOO (WKZO) — Convicted cabbie rapist Robert Prescott has been given 42 to 62 years in prison after being found guilty of 15-sexual assault and gun felonies. After outbursts in court denyin...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 12, 2015
Trio could go to jail for improper Asbestos removal in Comstock
COMSTOCK (WKZO) — Morrow Lake, already on the edge of the largest release of crude oil in U.S. History, is now also the site of the largest release of Asbestos in Michigan since the substance wa...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 11, 2015
VIDEO: Governor Snyder submits his new budget to the legislature
LANSING (WKZO) — The Governor submitted a 54-billion dollar state budget proposal to the legislature on Wednesday. Most budgets are fluid documents that have to be flexible to deal with changing...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 11, 2015
Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team shuts down crack house on Palmer
KALAMAZOO (WKZO) — A drug raid on a house on Palmer Street on Kalamazoo's south east side has resulted in four arrests and the seizure of crack cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, packaging mat...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 11, 2015
Powerball Jackpot growing
LANSING (WKZO) — The Lottery Jackpot is up to $485-million but Michigan Lottery spokesperson Jeff Holyfield says the way ticket sales are going, the Powerball Jackpot could be worth over half a ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 10, 2015
Contaminated feed blamed for mass kill-off of turkeys in West Michigan
ALLENDALE (WKZO) — 40-years-ago mislabeled fire retardant was shipped to a cattle feed producer and within months, millions of Michiganders were contaminated by PBB, ingested from beef and milk....
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 10, 2015
Governor Snyder to deliver his budget proposal at the Capitol
LANSING (WKZO) — Governor Rick Snyder is scheduled to present his budget proposal for next year to a joint session of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees late Wednesday morning. It wi...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 10, 2015




