Category Archives: State News
UPDATE with AUDIO: KDPS officer involved shooting timeline; suspect identified
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety police have released the identity of a man shot and killed in an officer involved shooting in Kalamazoo on Sunday, March 20. 33-year...
Mar 21, 2022 Former Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Police Chief Vernon Coakley. (Photo courtesy of KDPS).
One person shot and killed in officer involved shooting; MSP investigating
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Michigan State Police are investigating an officer involved shooting that occurred on Sunday, March 20. According to a press release from the Kalamazoo Department of Publ...
Mar 20, 2022 Michigan State Police (Photo by Jeana Gondek)
35 years after a Berrien County woman was murdered, accused killer is headed to prison
NILES, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - 35 years after the murder, an Indiana man has pleaded no contest in the 1987 killing of a woman whose husband found her dead in their southwestern Michigan home. The Berrien C...
Mar 18, 2022 A Feb. 17, 2022, booking photo of Patrick Gilham from St. Joseph County, Indiana (courtesy Michigan State Police)
AUDIO: Fixing the darned roads; Lt. Governor Gilchrist bullish on funding
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- With Michigan's economic numbers on the positive side, things are moving in the right direction according to the latest figures. One of them being the addition of jobs to...
Mar 18, 2022 Lt. Governor Gilchrist (photo courtesy of the office of Governor Gretchen Whitmer).
More agents testifying in case to kidnap governor
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - More dramatic testimony underway at the trial of four men accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan's governor. An FBI informant who helped build the government's case is ...
Mar 18, 2022 Governor Whitmer press conference Thursday 4-29-21
Senator Stabenow releases statement on President Zelensky's address to congress
WASHINGTON, D.C. (WKZO AM/FM) -- U.S. Senator Stabenow of Michigan released this statement following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's remarks to the U.S. Congress on Wednesday, March 16. "Pres...
Mar 16, 2022 Senator Debbie Stabenow. (Photo courtesy of the Office of Debbie Stabenow).
Middle school teacher sues Kalamazoo Public Schools over mask mandate
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) - Just days before the district says it will announce a decision on its current mask mandate, a middle school teacher has filed a lawsuit against the Kalamazoo Public School...
Mar 16, 2022
Congressman Fred Upton tests positive for COVID-19
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Michigan State Congressman Fred Upton of St. Joseph announced Tuesday, March 15, on Twitter that he had tested positive for COVID-19. The tweet, sent from Upton's account...
Mar 15, 2022
Michigan Senate approves suspension of state's 27-cent gas tax
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Michigan senators on Tuesday, March 15, approved a six-month suspension to the state's 27-cent-per-gallon gas tax. The proposal, House Bill 5570 would do away with the moto...
Mar 15, 2022 A Shell gas pump in Coldwater M (Midwest Communications Inc 2020)
MDOT projects beginning on March 21 for I-69 and I-94
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The Michigan Department of Transportation MDOT is getting to work on a couple of major road projects beginning Monday, March 21st. One of them is in Van Buren County with...
Mar 15, 2022
