Category Archives: State News
Grand Marshals for 90th Annual Tulip Time Parades Announced
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) — The Tulip Time Festival announced the 90th annual festival’s three parade grand marshals on Thursday, April 18, 2019. West Michigan native Ginger Zee, who now lives ...
Apr 18, 2019
West Michigan Farmers' Convoy Heads to Help Nebraska Farmers
WEST MICHIGAN (WHTC-AM/FM) — A group of West Michigan farmers are uniting to help Nebraska farms devastated by recent storms. Kerry Ackerman Tucker and other members of Farm and Rancher Aid from...
Apr 18, 2019
Man survives high speed wreck
WAYNE TOWNSHIP (WKZO AM/FM) — Cass County Deputies are investigating a high speed crash that sent a Marcellus man to South Bend Memorial with serious injuries, after he crushed his pick-up again...
Apr 18, 2019
West Michigan astronauts in the news
IN ORBIT (WKZO AM/FM) — Two west Michigan Astronauts from very different eras are in the news. Wednesday a Northrup Grumman Antares rocket was launched to deliver supplies, including Easter Dinn...
Apr 18, 2019
Missing Dowagiac man found dead
DOWAGIAC, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — A missing Dowagiac man has been found, but it's not a happy ending. 78-year-old Larry Waldschmidt suffered from altzheimers and diabetes and was insulin dependent. He...
Apr 18, 2019
Snow day forgiveness bills pass in Lansing
LANSING,MI (WKZO AM/FM) — The Michigan House of Representatives has approved a measure that would forgive up to a dozen snow days this school year, primarily the three days that Governor Gretche...
Apr 18, 2019
Missing Dowagiac Man, Larry Waldschmidt, Found Deceased
DOWAGIAC, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) — Larry Waldschmidt’s family and a wide circle of friends relentlessly shared the story of his disappearance from the front yard of his Dowagiac home on March 27,...
Apr 17, 2019
Eight Phone Store Robberies in Ottawa County
OTTAWA COUNTY (WHTC-AM/FM) — Ottawa County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating a break-in at the T-Mobile Metro Store, 401 Baldwin St. in Jenison, in Georgetown Township. It’s the e...
Apr 17, 2019
Domestic Violence: Red Flags and Getting Help
OTTAWA COUNTY (WHTC-AM/FM) — Holland police described Tuesday’s murder of a 61-year-old Holland woman as a case of intimate-partner violence. She was allegedly stabbed to death by an ex-bo...
Apr 17, 2019
Driver blamed for death of newlyweds enters a plea
ALLEGAN (WKZO AM/FM) — An Allegan County man has entered a no-contest plea for causing a wreck that killed a newlywed couple last July. Police say 21-year-old Jacob Damron of Wayland ran a stop ...
Apr 17, 2019
