Category Archives: State News
15-Vehicle Pile-Up Closes Section of I-196
HOLALND (WTHC-AM/FM) — At least 15 vehicles piled up in a crash Tuesday morning on I-196. Ottawa County Dispatch Authority posted a Facebook message telling drivers to avoid that area. Despite p...
Jan 29, 2019
Child kidnap plot suspect could get 50 years in prison
BATTLE CREEK, MI (WTVB) – One of the four suspects charged in Branch County by the State Attorney General's Office with being involved in a plot to kidnap, rape and kill a randomly selected chil...
Jan 29, 2019
Warming shelters in Kalamazoo, Calhoun, & Allegan
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — Local communities have set up warming shelters and overnight shelters to help those who need the help to stay warm. Kalamazoo has the First Congregational and the First ...
Jan 29, 2019
Governor declares statewide state of emergency
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) –Governor Gretchen Whitmer has declared a state of emergency in Michigan. It's in response to some of the lowest temperatures some of us have ever seen. She has activate...
Jan 29, 2019
Portage seniors found dead in the U.P.
CEDARVILLE, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Autopsies are planned on the bodies of an elderly Portage, Michigan couple found dead outside their car in the driveway of a home in Mackinac County, just north of ...
Jan 29, 2019
UPDATE: Winter Storm Warning Now Through Thursday Afternoon
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – The Lakeshore had better settle in for a lengthy winter storm this week. On Monday afternoon, the National Weather Service office at Ford Airport in Grand Rapids ...
Jan 28, 2019
Crash kills Benton Harbor woman Sunday
ALLEGAN COUNTY (WHTC-AM/FM) — Allegan County Sheriff’s officials have disclosed that deputies responded to a fatal, multi-vehicle crasah on M-89 at Second Street in Gun Plains Township tha...
Jan 28, 2019
Furniture plant in Dowagiac catches fire
DOWAGIAC (WKZO AM/FM) — A massive fire that burned for hours at Ameriwood in Dowagiac has shut the place down for at least today and maybe longer. Multiple fire departments were called to the pl...
Jan 28, 2019
Kalamazoo and Van Buren Counties added to Winter Warning
KALAMAZOO, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — A Winter Weather Warning is now in effect until 7 a.m. Tuesday for Van Buren and Kalamazoo Counties and other lakeshore counties to the north because forecasters say...
Jan 28, 2019
Battle Creek's second homicide of the year reported
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO AM/FM) — A Battle Creek man is dead, two others wounded and a gunman is at large after the Cereal City's second homicide of the year. Officers were dispatched to the intersect...
Jan 27, 2019
