Category Archives: State News
Perjury charge in Dumbaya investigation
KENT COUNTY (WKZO AM/FM) –Investigators looking into the murder of 16-year-old Mujay Dumbaya have now charged the girlfriend of Quinn James with perjury for apparently not telling detectives the...
localnews@mwcradio.com Mar 03, 2018
UPDATE: CMU Student faces charges
MT. PLEASANT (WKZO AM/FM) — The suspect in the double murder at Central Michigan University on Friday has now been charged with 2-counts of open murder and a gun charge, and remains at McLaren H...
localnews@mwcradio.com Mar 02, 2018
State puts a little more money into fixing roads
LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) — The State Senate has unanimously approved that supplemental roads funding package that will inject another $175 million dollars into construction projects this year. The S...
localnews@mwcradio.com Mar 01, 2018
Kalamazoo Strong funds may have been misused
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM)– The Former Director of Operations for Kalamazoo Strong, the fundraising organization that sprang up after Kalamazoo's mass murder to help the survivors is now under inves...
localnews@mwcradio.com Mar 01, 2018
Warning to look out for flood damaged vehicles
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – After record breaking floodwaters in southwest Michigan, Attorney General Bill Schuette is warning residents about car-buying scams. Schuette says many flood-damaged v...
localnews@mwcradio.com Mar 01, 2018
Prosecutor says suspect shooting was self defense
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO AM/FM) — Calhoun County Prosecutor Dan Gilbert has determined that three Members of the Regional State Police Fugitive team were justified in shooting suspect Joshuah Prough w...
localnews@mwcradio.com Mar 01, 2018
School walk-outs continue
PORTAGE (WKZO AM/FM) — Hundreds of Mattawan School Students staged their own walk-out in support of the victims of the Parkland Shooting in Florida. Others are planned. Portage Central Student A...
localnews@mwcradio.com Mar 01, 2018
March set to come in like a lion, not lamb
UNDATED (WKZO AM/FM) – The month of March is coming in like a lion with a variety of weather conditions, most of it inclement, and getting progressively worse as the day wears on. Thursday is st...
localnews@mwcradio.com Mar 01, 2018
State Senate advances sexual assault legislation
LANSING,MI (WKZO AM/FM) – The backers of a legislative package targeting sex abuse in the wake of the Larry Nassar Scandal wasted no time getting the bills on a fast track in Lansing. The ten bi...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 28, 2018
Another school threat, another arrest
CONSTANTINE, MI (WZKO AM/FM) – A 15-year-old freshman at Constantine High School in St Joseph County is in custody and could be in big trouble after posting a threat on Snapchat that he had a gu...
localnews@mwcradio.com Feb 27, 2018




