Category Archives: State News
Alabama murder suspect sentenced in Paw Paw
PAW PAW (WKZO AM/FM) — A man suspected of murdering his mother in Alabama has been sentenced in Van Buren County for a gunfight with police just before his surrender, but he probably won't do mu...
localnews@mwcradio.com Nov 10, 2017
US Senate Confirms Hoekstra's Nomination as US Ambassador to Netherlands
WASHINGTON (WHTC-AM/FM) - Pete Hoekstra is going "home." The appointment in June by President Trump of the nine-term US House Representative as the new American ambassador to the Netherlands was appro...
localnews@mwcradio.com Nov 09, 2017
Senate passes bill opening gun free zones to guns
LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) — Amendments were made to a State Senate bill that will allow adults with the proper concealed carry permit to carry a gun through almost all gun free zones, including churc...
localnews@mwcradio.com Nov 09, 2017
Fred Upton reflects on wedding
WASHINGTON D.C. (WKZO AM/FM) — West Michigan Congressman Fred Upton says he is back to work after a weekend in Italy attending the wedding of his niece and her fiance. He says the wedding of Sup...
localnews@mwcradio.com Nov 09, 2017
UPDATE: Three dead in south side shooting
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — Kalamazoo Public Safety is now confirming what we reported earlier, that four year old Nicholas Jeffrey Mitchell, who was shot by his own father during a murder/suicide ...
localnews@mwcradio.com Nov 09, 2017
Amtrak adds trains for Thanksgiving travel
HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – In what will be on of the busiest travel weeks of the year, Amtrak is providing extra trains for travel in Michigan over the Thanksgiving holiday. Michigan’s rid...
localnews@mwcradio.com Nov 09, 2017
Gun bill in Lansing becomes target for criticism
LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) — State Senate Majority leader Arlen Meekhof has put a bill to allow guns into schools, churches, and bars on a fast track. It passed out of committee on a 3 to 2 straight p...
localnews@mwcradio.com Nov 08, 2017
U.S. Supreme Court and the Gun Lake Casino
ALLEGAN COUNTY (WKZO AM/FM) — It took the Gun Lake Tribe nearly a decade of legal wrangling to get their Casino opened along U.S.131 in Allegan County against forces that hoped to stop them, and...
localnews@mwcradio.com Nov 08, 2017
Lance Parrish named new Whitecaps Manager
COMSTOCK PARK, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – Former Detroit Tigers catcher Lance Parrish has been named the 13th manager in West Michigan Whitecaps history, in a move announced in conjunction with the Detro...
localnews@mwcradio.com Nov 08, 2017
Man suspected in 3-county crime spree charged
JACKSON (WKZO AM/FM) — The suspect in a series of five home invasions and two car thefts a week ago today in Kalamazoo County will first face charges in Jackson County. Yesterday 36-year-old Tra...
localnews@mwcradio.com Nov 07, 2017




