Category Archives: State News
Tigers agree to one-year deal with Price
DETROIT (WKZO) — The Detroit Tigers are avoiding arbitration with pitcher David Price. Multiple reports say the two sides have agreed to a one-year, 19.75-million-dollar deal for 2015. The 29-ye...
Jan 16, 2015
Snyder vetoes e-cigarette bills
LANSING (WKZO) — Governor Rick Snyder has vetoed bills concerning e-cigarettes. The bills would have banned the use of e-cigarette devices by minors, but Snyder took the advice of health officia...
Jan 16, 2015
Internet tax collection signed into law
LANSING (WKZO) — Some online retailers including Amazon.com will now be required to charge state sales tax to Michigan customers at the time of an Internet purchase. Supporters of the new law, c...
Jan 16, 2015
Gun bills vetoed by Governor Snyder
LANSING (WKZO) — Two bills which would have made dramatic changes to Michigan’s laws on concealed weapons permits that had the backing of the National Rifle Association will not be enacted...
Jan 16, 2015
Suburban Holland-Based State Lawmaker Assumes Leadership Role in House
LANSING, MI (WHTC) – Beginning her third and final two-year term in the state House, Amanda Price assumed some leadership positions yesterday. The Park Township Republican was named chairwoman o...
Jan 16, 2015
General Motors forecasts bigger profits
DETROIT (WKZO) — General Motors expects bigger profits this year, after 2014 turned out better than expected. America’s number one carmaker said Wednesday that growth in its two biggest ma...
Jan 15, 2015
Attorney describes carjack suspect's condition
GROSSE POINTE PARK (WKZO) — The attorney for 51-year-old Andrew Jackson describes the carjacking suspect as having an eye swollen shut from an arrest recorded on cell phone by a witness concerne...
Jan 15, 2015
Police investigate threatening letters sent to schools
GRAND RAPIDS (WKZO) — Police are investigating threatening letters that were delivered to Calvin College, Kentwood Public Schools’ Bowen Elementary, and Wyoming’s Godfrey Elementary....
Jan 15, 2015
Investigators Await Toxicology Report For Kent County Sheriff's Sergeant After Crash
UNDATED (WHTC)- A rollover crash involving a personal vehicle of an off duty Kent County Sheriff's Deputy is being investigated by county officials. Sergeant Peter Gerkin, a long time officer with the...
Jan 15, 2015
Kalamazoo Man Formally Charged in Three January Bank Robberies
UNDATED (WHTC)- A man linked to three separate bank robberies in Oshtemo Township, Portage and South Haven was formerly charged in Kalamazoo County court yesterday for those crimes. Kalamazoo County D...
Jan 15, 2015
