Category Archives: State News
Avelo Airlines expands Kalamazoo Service with 2nd Florida destination: Ft Meyers
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Just weeks after announcing it's nonstop service to Orlando Florida from Kalamazoo, Avelo Airlines has added yet another popular vacation destination to the Sunshine Stat...
Aug 25, 2022 Head of Marketing for Avelo Airlines Travis Christ making the announcement on August 25 of nonstop service from Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport to Ft. Meyers FL starting November 11. (Photo by Jerry Malec)
December sentencing for two men convicted of plotting to kidnap and kill Governor Whitmer
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - U.S. District Court Judge Robert Jonker says the two men convicted of plotting to kidnap and kill Governor Whitmer will be sentenced in December. Adam Fox will learn De...
Aug 25, 2022 Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. (courtesy of Kent County Sheriff's Department)
Court Of Appeals denies Legislature's appeal in abortion case
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - The Michigan Court of Appeals has denied the state legislature's appeal of the preliminary injunction in the abortion case. Attorney General Dana Nessel says the Court had "...
Aug 25, 2022 Best Law
Eligible Michiganders to receive additional assistance in August to lower cost of groceries
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Governor Whitmer announced on Wednesday, August 24, that families that receive food assistance benefits will continue to get extra money this month, at least $95 dollars or...
Aug 24, 2022
KDPS finds alligator crawling down the street in Edison neighborhood Tuesday
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - It's an incident you rarely, if ever, see on a city street. Tuesday a Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Sergeant came across a small reptile believed to be an American...
Aug 24, 2022 (courtesy of the Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety)
Jury convicts Fox and Croft of plotting to kidnap Whitmer
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - A federal jury in Grand Rapids has convicted two men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer over of anger over her handling of the pandemic....
Aug 23, 2022 Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. (courtesy of Kent County Sheriff's Department)
Craig will not support Dixon in Governor's race
DETROIT, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Former Detroit Police Chief James Craig will not support Tudor Dixon in her bid to unseat incumbent Governor Gretchen Whitmer in November. Craig was leading the GOP polls fo...
Aug 23, 2022 Retired Detroit Police Chief James Craig (courtesy of LinkedIn)
Despite challenge from Rebandt, Trump endorses Tudor Dixon's pick for Lt. Governor slot
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Former President Donald Trump is endorsing Republican nominee for governor Tudor Dixon's lieutenant governor pick. Trump weighed in about 90 minutes after pastor Ralph Reban...
Aug 23, 2022 GOP candidate for Governor (courtesy of tudordixon.com)
Jurors begin deliberations in second Governor Whitmer kidnapping trial for Croft and Fox
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Federal jurors have deliberated for five hours without a verdict yet in the retrial of Barry Croft Jr. and Adam Fox for allegedly plotting to kidnap Governor Gretchen W...
Aug 23, 2022 Governor Gretchen Whitmer at Eastern Michigan University on 4/12/21. (Photo courtesy Office of Governor Whitmer).
Former WMU hockey player pleads guilty to lesser offense after originally being charged with sexual assault
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Former Western Michigan University hockey captain Paul Washe has pled guilty to seduction after being charged with criminal sexual conduct with force or coercion. Washe wa...
Aug 23, 2022 Best Law
