Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Kalamazoo Public Safety investigating Thursday afternoon shooting
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo Public Safety is investigating a shooting Thursday afternoon in the 100 block of North Sage Street. Officers got a call about a shooting involving someone in a s...
Aug 09, 2024 (Photo courtesy of Jeana Gondek)
Lead pipe crews unearth 1838 gravestone in Westnedge Park
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Construction crews in Kalamazoo have unearthed a gravestone from 1838 while doing lead service line maintenance in Westnedge Park this week. The headstone was for 29-year-...
Aug 09, 2024 (courtesy City of Kalamazoo)
Man convicted of 2023 murder of 19-year-old
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Twenty-year-old Catrell Woods has been convicted of the murder of a 19-year-old in Kalamazoo. The teenager, Omar're Williams-Dickey, was shot in the head near Bridge Stree...
Aug 09, 2024 Chris Potter / CC
AUDIO: KPS urging parents to get kids ready to start class
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The first day of school may not be until the end of the month but Kalamazoo Public Schools officials are urging parents to start getting their children geared up and ready...
Aug 09, 2024
Kalamazoo man facing federal charges for May gun arrest
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A Kalamazoo man is now charged in federal court with being a felon in possession of a firearm for having a gun and fleeing into a crowd of marathon runners in May. U.S. At...
Aug 08, 2024 Police lights
AUDIO: Carson Hocevar wins Battle at Berlin
WRIGHT TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Portage native and NASCAR Cup Series driver Carson Hocevar won the Battle at Berlin at Berlin Raceway last night. The race gave out the track's largest cash prize of...
Aug 08, 2024
WK Kellogg plans improvements in BC but will close Omaha facility
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - WK Kellogg has announced plans to invest in new infrastructure, equipment, technology, and capabilities at three of its plants including the one in Battle Creek but they...
Aug 08, 2024 Kellogg's company logo
33-year-old arrested in Kalamazoo drug bust
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A 33-year-old man is in the Kalamazoo County Jail after the Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team and Crime Reduction Team executed a search warrant in the 2400 block of Townh...
Aug 08, 2024
AUDIO: Kalamazoo County hires attorney as county counsel
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo County board has decided to hire from within and offer the post of county counsel to one of the lawyers they hired to be on their legal team. If negotiations...
Aug 08, 2024 Joe Gratz
KVET arrests 25-year-old man in drug bust
KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Valley Enforcement Team and Crime Reduction Team have arrested a 25-year-old man after seizing meth, fentanyl, a gun, and suspected drug sale profit...
Aug 08, 2024
