Category Archives: State News
Murder suspect formally charged
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — The suspect in Kalamazoo's latest homicide has been formally charged. Jerome Oday II, a 27-year-old Kalamazoo man with a previous criminal history has been charged with ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 18, 2018
Big battery is really many small batteries
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — Consumers Energy has snipped the ribbon on a battery the size of a bus near WMU's Business Park to see what it can do. It’s the first of perhaps thousands of such ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 18, 2018
Holland Shooter Sentenced To At Least 12 Years in Prison
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – A 23-year-old Holland man will spend at least 12 years in prison in connection with a shooting on the city's east side last March. Justin D-Mario Mason was sentenced M...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 18, 2018
Allegan County Resident Contracts Dangerous Mosquito-Borne Virus
LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – County and state health officials have confirmed an Allegan County resident has been diagnosed with Eastern equine encephalitis, one of the most dangerous mosquito-bor...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 18, 2018
Vehicles destroyed by fire at Sturgis business
STURGIS, MI (WTVB) – A building at Sturgis Towing and Recovery in Sturgis, Michigan was destroyed in a fire that broke out late Monday afternoon. WWMT-TV reports the fire at the business on M-66...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 18, 2018
UPDATE: Missing Colon man with dementia found
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — Lt. Marc Rifenberg reported that Robert E. Sumney has been located as of 3 a.m. Tuesday. — ORIGINAL STORY — KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — Authorities are as...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 17, 2018
Gun Lake Tribe names new Chairman
BRADLEY, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – The new chairman of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians, better known as the Gun Lake Tribe, is Bob Peters. The tribe made the announcement on Mon...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 17, 2018
Police cruiser involved in fatal crash
BAINBRIDGE TOWNSHIP (WKZO AM/FM) –A high speed t-bone crash between a police SUV rushing to a domestic violence call and a private vehicle has killed a woman and hospitalized the two officers fr...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 16, 2018
Senior on tricycle struck by alleged drunk driver
VAN BUREN COUNTY (WKZO AM/FM) — One man in his 80's has been jailed and another hospitalized after the two collided along a rural Van Buren County Road Sunday afternoon. An 88-year-old was ridin...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 16, 2018
Cass County boy drowns at pool party
CASS COUNTY (WKZO AM/FM) — A pool party to celebrate the birthday of a young boy turned horribly tragic when one of the boys attending the event drowned. Cass County Deputies responded to the pr...
localnews@mwcradio.com Sep 16, 2018




