Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Missing Barry County woman contacts family
BARRY COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A missing Barry County woman has been in contact with her family. The sheriff's office says 31-year-old Sarah Weidenhammer had been missing for nearly two weeks before ...
Dec 13, 2024
AUDIO: WMU launching search for new president with Dr. Montgomery's retirement looming
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The search has begun for Western Michigan University's 10th president as Dr. Edward Montgomery has announced his plans for retirement. Board chair Shelly Edgerton says the...
Dec 13, 2024 Western Michigan University President Edward Montgomery (courtesy WMU)
All-MIAA basketball player killed in Wednesday night I-94 crash
EMMETT TOWNSHIP, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - A Detroit man who was an All-M.I.A.A. basketball player for two seasons at Trine University in Angola, Indiana was killed on Wednesday night in a crash on westbound I...
Dec 12, 2024 Courtesy Trine University
Box truck loses control on EB I-94, damages several emergency vehicles
COMSTOCK TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Three Comstock Fire vehicles and one Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office cruiser were hit and damaged by a box truck that lost control on eastbound I-94 just east of...
Dec 12, 2024
Vacant mobile home in Portage destroyed by fire
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A vacant mobile home in Portage has been destroyed by a fire. Portage Public Safety says they were called to the 5200 block of Dutchess Drive in the Colonial Acres Manufactu...
Dec 12, 2024 Portage fire truck. (Photo courtesy City of Portage).
"Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" holiday motoring safety initiative underway
ALLEGAN, MI (WKZO-AM/FM) - We're still a week and a half away from the calendar start of the Christmas/New Year season, but it's never too early for those in brown, black or blue to be vigilant on roa...
Dec 12, 2024 The "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" road enforcement initiative. (Image courtesy National Highway Traffic Safety Administration)
AUDIO: NRC says Palisades won't restart if it doesn't pass inspections
COVERT TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission wants it to be clear to everyone that if the Palisades nuclear power plant in Covert Township does not pass inspections, it...
Dec 12, 2024
Man pleads guilty to killing ex-girlfriend in 2023
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Kalamazoo man has entered a guilty plea to a charge of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of his former girlfriend outside her mother's apartment in May 2023. Je...
Dec 12, 2024 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC
Two Kalamazoo organizations receiving state funding to help housing crisis
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Housing Resources Incorporated and Integrated Services of Kalamazoo will both get Shelter Diversion grants from the state for 2025. The Michigan State Housing Development ...
Dec 12, 2024 zimmytws / Depositphotos.com
AAA predicting record number of travelers for the year-end holiday period
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Holiday travel numbers this year are at record highs. Almost 120-million will travel at leave 50 miles away from home, according to Triple-A. With Christmas Day falling on ...
Dec 12, 2024
