Category Archives: State News

DEARBORN (WKZO) — Ford Motor Company is looking to add more jobs. The automaker announced Wednesday it will add roughly 15-hundred new jobs, 650 of those in Michigan, for the production of its 2...

BAY CITY (WKZO) — Bay City Public Safety Officer Brandon Murphy is out of the hospital and expected to fully recover from gunshot wounds suffered in a shoot-out with a home invasion suspect. Mur...

STERLING HEIGHTS (WKZO) — A metro Detroit doctor faces charges in connection with a drug delivery scheme. Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette’s office has charged Doctor John Verbovsky...

GRAND RAPIDS (WKZO) — Eighty-one-year-old Tony Trapani of Grand Rapids made national news last month when he met a man he believed was a long-lost son he never knew he had, based on a letter his...

DETROIT (WKZO) — Jeep is recalling more than 228-thousand SUVs worldwide. The recall, which covers Jeep Cherokees from the 2014 and 2015 models, is the latest in a recent string of troubles with...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (WKZO) — A deal is said to be close for the federal government to pay for a new 250-million dollar customs plaza for a new bridge between Detroit and Windsor. U.S. Homeland Secu...

LANSING (WKZO) — State Representative Harvey Santana of Detroit is no longer allowed to take part in any caucus meetings with his fellow Democrats. Santana says he was kicked out on Tuesday for ...

AUBURN HILLS (WKZO) — FCA US reports a 14-percent increase in January of 2015 compared with the same month last year. It marks the company’s 58th consecutive month of year-over-year sales ...

DEARBORN (WKZO) — Ford Motor Company U.S. sales rose 15-percent last month compared with the same month a year ago. Ford U.S. sales analyst Erick Merkle says that retail sales rose 13-percent. M...

DETROIT (WKZO) — January U.S. sales for General Motors were up by 18 percent over the same month in 2014. It made it the automaker’s best January in seven years. Highlights include a 29-pe...