Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Stabbing incident under investigation in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety is continuing its search for a suspect in an early morning stabbing incident Saturday. Officials report that a 42-year-old man was...
Sep 25, 2022
Dowagiac woman taken to hospital after crashing into ditch
CASS COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A 32-year-old Dowagiac woman suffered injuries when her vehicle went off the roadway and overturned early Friday morning on September 23. Emergency responders arrived o...
Sep 23, 2022 Photo provided by the Cass County Sheriff's Office.
Cassopolis man arrested on multiple drug charges
CASS COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Cass County Drug Enforcement Team arrested a 48-year-old Cassopolis man on multiple drug charges on Friday, September 23. It happened when detectives executed a sea...
Sep 23, 2022 Cass County Sheriff's Office cruiser (photo by John McNeil)
Three suspects arrested in Battle Creek drive by murder of two year old
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - Battle Creek Police announced on Friday they have arrested three young people in their mid- to late-teens in Tuesday morning's drive by shooting death in the 100 block o...
Sep 23, 2022
Grants awarded to 49 small manufacturers throughout Michigan to help adopt Industry 4.0 technologies
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Michigan Economic Development Corporation announced on Thursday that forty-nine small manufacturers around Michigan have been awarded a total of $1.15 million to help t...
Sep 22, 2022 Ervins Strauhmanis / CC
Driver who flew over Allegan County US-131 overpass in his car in January pleads to drug charge
ALLEGAN COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A man who made his car go airborne over an overpass along US-131 in Allegan County earlier this year pleaded guilty to an impaired driving charge. According to WOOD-...
Sep 22, 2022 Best Law
Significant amount of personal property stolen from St. Joseph Co. storage unit
ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The St. Joseph County Sheriff's Department is investigating a breaking and entering to a storage unit where the suspect, or suspects made off with a significant a...
Sep 22, 2022
Rep. Morse introduces public service safety bill
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Michigan State Representative Christine Morse of Texas Township introduced House Bill 6407, which is a public service safety bill on Thursday, September 22. If passed, th...
Sep 22, 2022 Michigan State Representative Christine Morse (Texas Township)
Three complaints filed against suspended Kalamazoo public safety chief
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A third person has alleged inappropriate workplace conduct against suspended Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety chief Vernon Coakley through an email sent to the city ...
Sep 22, 2022 Former Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Police Chief Vernon Coakley. (Photo courtesy of KDPS).
2 injured and sent to the hospital after minivan vs motorcycle crash in Portage
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Two people were injured in a crash between a minivan and a motorcycle on Wednesday evening, September 21. Portage Public Safety Police and the Portage Fire Department respo...
Sep 22, 2022 (photo by John McNeil)
