Category Archives: State News
Internships offered at Bells for beer majors
COMSTOCK (WKZO AM/FM) — Bell's Brewery has announced it will be creating a college internship program, working with the programs at Kalamazoo Valley Community College and Western Michigan Univer...
Dec 13, 2017
Juvenile lifer expected to get reduced sentence
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO AM/FM) — A Battle Creek man who was a teenager when he was sentenced to spend his entire adult life in prison for murder, may get out of jail after all, due to a Supreme Court...
Dec 13, 2017
AG Candidates spar over Nassar scandal
LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) — Monday, Speaker Tom Leonard called for the Resignation of MSU President Lou Anna Simon following the Larry Nassar scandal, but not everyone agrees. Just a few weeks ago th...
Dec 13, 2017
Petition collection by part-time legislature backers goes postal
LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – Is collecting petition signatures by mail pragmatic or panic for Clean Michigan Government? Over 100,000 petitions were mailed out by the group late last month in an e...
Dec 12, 2017
Coldwater woman sentenced for abusing 2-month-old
(COLDWATER) – A Coldwater woman was ordered to serve a minimum of 11 years, three months to a maximum of 30 years in prison on Monday in Branch County Circuit Court after she entered no contest ...
Dec 12, 2017
South Haven Area Family Saved by Barking Dogs
SOUTH HAVEN TWP., MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – Barking dogs at night can keep people awake, but for a South Haven area family, they can thank their canines for allowing them to have more days to be awake. ...
Dec 12, 2017
Speaker wants MSU President to resign
LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) — The Speaker of the Michigan House, Tom Leonard is telling the MIRS news service that Michigan State University should be investigated for its handling of Dr. Larry Nassar ...
Dec 12, 2017
Upton happy to see EPA moving on river cleanup
ST. JOSEPH (WKZO AM/FM) — Congressman Fred Upton says he is delighted to hear that the Kalamazoo River Superfund Project has been put on a special EPA priorities list. He says he has been battli...
Dec 12, 2017
More snow coming
GRAND RAPIDS (WKZO AM/FM) — The National weather service says parts of Southwest Michigan are about to get slammed. WInter storm warnings have been issued in the lakeshore counties and advisorie...
Dec 12, 2017
Lakeshore lawmaker to address rural broadband costs
LANSING, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – With the Federal Communications Commission’s vote still planned for Thursday on ending “net neutrality” as it currently exists in the US, the argumen...
Dec 11, 2017
