Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
AUDIO: Palisades hoping for word soon on federal loan
COVERT TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Holtec International officials say they are expecting to receive a $1.5-billion loan from the federal government to restart the Palisades nuclear power plant. Spokes...
Feb 01, 2024
Missing teenage girl from Grand Rapids maybe in this area
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - A missing 15-year-old girl from Grand Rapids has not been seen since New Year's Eve. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children says Evilynn Mohr maybe in Gr...
Jan 31, 2024 Courtesy National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
UPDATE: New York semi driver killed in Wednesday morning crash on I-94 in Battle Creek
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - A 26-year-old New York man died at the scene of a semi-truck crash this morning on I-94 near Exit 92 and West Columbia Avenue. Calhoun County Dispatch received a call at...
Jan 31, 2024
Van Buren County deputy lucky to avoid being hit by semi
PAW PAW, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Van Buren County Sheriff Dan Abbott says a deputy is very lucky to be alive after a semi truck disregarded road flares and flashing lights to signal Interstate 94 was close...
Jan 31, 2024 Van Buren County Sheriff's Office cruiser (Photo by John McNeil)
AUDIO: Three teens arrested trying to steal Kia in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Kalamazoo Public Safety has arrested three teenagers between 14 and 16 years old for trying to steal a Kia on Monday. Captain Scott VanderEnde says the teens are a danger...
Jan 31, 2024 (Photo courtesy of Jeana Gondek)
Report: Palisades getting federal loan to reopen
COVERT TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Bloomberg is reporting Holtec International Corporation will receive a $1.5 billion loan from the U.S. Energy Department to restart the Palisades nuclear power plan...
Jan 31, 2024
Unemployment fraud lawsuit against state settled
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A class-action lawsuit against the Michigan unemployment agency has concluded with a $20 million settlement approved by a judge. People had been accused by the state o...
Jan 30, 2024 Pictures of Money / CC
Organized crime crew hits Walgreens stores around Michigan
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Michigan State Police say three women from a national organized crime crew have hit Walgreens stores in the state 25 times. The three started in Detroit and went west along ...
Jan 30, 2024 FILE PHOTO: A Walgreens store is seen in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. February 11, 2021. REUTERS/Eileen T. Meslar/File Photo/File Photo
Crossing guard hospitalized after being hit by car
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A Kalamazoo Public Schools crossing guard is hospitalized after he was hit by a car yesterday afternoon outside Milwood Elementary. The incident happened at the intersect...
Jan 30, 2024 KPS employees to get raise (Photo by John McNeill).
Kalamazoo Go Red for Women Gala set for February 8, Wear Red Day is this Friday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The American Heart Association is commemorating its 100th anniversary and the 20th anniversary of its signature Go Red for Women movement in 2024 with the Kalamazoo Go Red...
Jan 30, 2024
