Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
Convis Township mailboxes set on fire, Calhoun County Sheriff's Office and Postal Officials investigating
CONVIS TOWNSHIP, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The Calhoun County Sheriff's Department is investigating the torching of several mailboxes in Convis Township which took place over the holiday weekend. The Sheriff's...
Sep 07, 2022 Photo courtesy of the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office.
Petition drive hopes to force safety changes on Kalamazoo's Fraternity Village Drive
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Over 4,400 people have signed a petition calling for safety changes near the campus of Western Michigan University. The petition comes after two students have been killed ...
Sep 07, 2022
Water and sewer rate increases move to the next step in Kalamazoo
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Kalamazoo City Commissioners have given initial approval to a 20% rate hike in next month's sewer bills. An identical increase in water rates will likely kick in January 2...
Sep 07, 2022 City of Kalamazoo Utility Director James Baker at the City Commission meeting Sept 6, 2022
Commissioners get an earful on their vote to decriminalize public urination
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Complaints about the homeless using the Downtown Mall in Kalamazoo as a toilet resurfaced last night at the City Commission meeting during public comment. The issue first ...
Sep 07, 2022 Downtown Mall in Kalamazoo, MI (courtesy of Discover Kalamazoo)
Board of Commissioners reviews possible wage hikes for Kalamazoo County employees
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Last year when a few members of the Kalamazoo County Board of Commissioners learned there were county staffers who were not earning a living wage, they wanted to reset the...
Sep 07, 2022 Kalamazoo County Courthouse. (Photo by Jeana Gondek).
Three taken into custody by KDPS officers for resisting and obstructing arrest
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety police arrested three people on Sunday, September 4, for resisting and obstructing arrest while investigating reports of a subject w...
Sep 06, 2022 KDPS Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety cruiser (Photo by Jeana Gondek)
Driver who struck and injured pedestrian on West Main St. wanted by police
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Police are looking for the driver suspected of hitting and injuring a pedestrian in the 2000 block of West Main Street in Kalamazoo. The Township of Kalamazoo Police Depa...
Sep 06, 2022 (Photo courtesy of John McNeill)
Wanted fugitive involved in Three Rivers standoff arrested Tuesday
ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- St. Joseph County deputies have arrested the man involved in the hours-long standoff Saturday, September 3, in Three Rivers. 33-year-old Kenneth Scott, a wanted f...
Sep 06, 2022 St. Joseph County Sheriff's Office cruiser (Photo by John McNeil)
Zeeland man wins $25,000 a year for life playing Lucky For Life
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A Zeeland man has won $25,000 a year for life playing the Michigan Lottery's Lucky for Life game. 55-year-old Scott Snyder matched the five numbers drawn on August 7 - 07-1...
Sep 06, 2022 Photo provided by Michigan Lottery News.
Former WMU officer accused of offering to pay a minor for sex accepts plea deal
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A former Western Michigan University police officer accused of soliciting an underage girl for sex has pleaded guilty to one count of using a computer to commit a crime, ...
Sep 06, 2022 Photo provided by the Kalamazoo County Sheriff's Office.
