Category Archives: State News
Governor streamlines marijuana licensing process
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Governor Gretchen Whitmer is blowing up the agencies that are currently issuing licenses for medical marijuana businesses and replacing a volunteer board with professi...
localnews@mwcradio.com Mar 02, 2019
Pennfield Township man dies in house fire
PENNFIELD TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Fire investigators in Calhoun County are looking for the cause of a basement fire that killed a man in Pennfield Township Friday.. They were dispatched to t...
localnews@mwcradio.com Mar 02, 2019
Breaking: Juan Sandro Cabrera in Custody
OTTAWA COUNTY (WHTC-AM/FM) — The Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office announced that Juan Sandro Cabrera was taken into custody early this morning, March 1, 2019, in Michigan. The Sheriff’...
localnews@mwcradio.com Mar 01, 2019
Hourly teaching assistants hurting after no pay snow days
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — Teacher's aides and assistants working in Kalamazoo Schools appealed to the Board of Trustees Thursday night to help them make up for lost salary because of this winter'...
localnews@mwcradio.com Mar 01, 2019
Former Athens teacher pleads guilty in teen sex case
BATTLE CREEK (WTVB) – A former Athens Area Schools teacher, charged with having sex with a student, has cut a deal with Calhoun County prosecutors. In addition to the long running affair with th...
localnews@mwcradio.com Mar 01, 2019
West Michigan locations in the running for America's "craft beer's best"
UNDATED (WKZO AM/FM) — USA Today is asking the public to rank the "Best of the Best" in a wide range of craft beer categories and west Michigan is represented in three of them. Bell's Brewery in...
localnews@mwcradio.com Mar 01, 2019
A Test: Ottawa County to Send Alerts Via Facebook
OTTAWA COUNTY (WHTC-AM/FM) — Ottawa County officials disclosed that the county has been beta testing a new feature on Facebook: Local Alerts. Local alerts enable Ottawa County to provide the com...
localnews@mwcradio.com Mar 01, 2019
Video of Accused Murder-Mutilation Suspect Made Public
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) — WOOD TV is reporting its reporters obtained police videos of the day police talked with accused murderer and former Holland resident Jared Chance. The videos show him yawn...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 28, 2019
3 Battle Creek teens injured in crash with semi
EMMETT TOWNSHIP, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Three teens are injured, one critically after they crashed into a semi in Calhoun County’s Emmett Township. It happened around 7:00 a.m. Wednesday on Eas...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 28, 2019
Two Hurt in 2 Separate-but-Related Crashes
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) — Two separate traffic crashes at US-31 and Lake Michigan Drive early Wednesday morning ended with one driver in jail awaiting charges, and two women in area hospitals ̵...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 27, 2019




