Category Archives: Kalamazoo News
GoFundMe set up for WMU student struck and killed by drunk driver
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- A GoFundMe fundraiser has been organized by the family of WMU student Kaylee Gansberg who was struck and killed by a drunk driver on Friday, August 26, in the 2700 block ...
Aug 31, 2022
WMU-Cooley Innocence Project to host exoneree panel discussion
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Western Michigan Cooley Law School is set to feature it's WMU-Cooley Innocence Project panel discussion that will feature exonerees who will share their stories of wrongful...
Aug 31, 2022 Ken Nixon after being released from the Michigan Reformatory in Ionia, Michigan February 18, 2021(courtesy of the Western Michigan University Cooley Law School)
MSP investigating deadly pedestrian crash in Van Buren County
PAW PAW, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Troopers from the Michigan State Police Paw Paw post are investigating a crash that killed a pedestrian in Van Buren County. Authorities say it happened around 7:30 Tuesday...
Aug 31, 2022 Michigan State Police - File photo
Dowagiac Union Schools bus struck and rolls on its side after running a stop sign in Cass County
WAYNE TOWNSHIP, CASS COUNTY, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Authorities say a school bus driver apparently went through a stop sign and the bus was hit by another vehicle in Cass County's Wayne Township early this...
Aug 31, 2022 (courtesy of the Cass County Sheriff's Office)
Cannabis marketing class to begin at WMU this spring
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -Western Michigan University will begin a cannabis marketing class in the spring. The university is working with several local cannabis experts for the class, and assistant ...
Aug 31, 2022 Elsa Olofsson / CC
Amtrak pausing two train routes through Michigan due to staffing and supply issues
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Amtrak is temporarily canceling its Wolverine Service Trains 350 and 355 from Chicago to Pontiac until September 15. Spokesman Marc Magliari says its due to not having eno...
Aug 31, 2022 Biker loads his bike onto the Amtrak train. (Photo courtesy of Jeana Gondek)
Teen suffers serious injuries in Calhoun County two vehicle accident
NEWTON TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A teenage girl from Emmett Township suffered serious injuries in a crash on 8 Mile Road near B Drive S in Calhoun County's Newton Township Tuesday afternoon. The Cal...
Aug 31, 2022
Three dead after murder-suicide in Portage Tuesday night
PORTAGE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Police in Portage say a man shot and killed a woman and child Tuesday night, and then shot himself. Three other children reportedly escaped the home when they heard the guns...
Aug 31, 2022 Crime scene tape
Thousands in Calhoun and Kalamazoo Counties without power, some maybe off line until Friday
CALHOUN COUNTY, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - The power is going to remain off for another day or two for some Consumers Energy customers in Calhoun and Kalamazoo Counties. The utility reported Wednesday morning t...
Aug 31, 2022 Photo courtesy of Consumer's Energy
Teenage girl injured in Newton Township crash, CCSD investigating
NEWTON TOWNSHIP, MI (WNWN/WTVB) - A teenage girl was seriously injured Tuesday afternoon in a two vehicle crash on 8 Mile Road near B Drive South in Newton Township. The Calhoun County Sheriff's Depar...
Aug 31, 2022 Photo courtesy of the Calhoun County Sheriff's Office.
