Category Archives: State News
Self Driving cars navigate Senate despite concerns
WASHINGTON (WKZO AM/FM) — A bill authored by Michigan Senator Gary Peters that would authorize the manufacture and sale of thousands self-driving cars each year that would be exempt from federal...
Oct 05, 2017
Traverse City death may have drug connection
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — The preliminary investigation into the death of a 22-year-old Traverse City woman found dead in her van on the bottom of the Boardman River suggests that heroin use may ...
Oct 05, 2017
Opioid bills move to House floor
LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) — The number of opioid deaths in Michigan have more than doubled in the last five years from 622 in 2011 to 1,689 in 2016, according to statistics just released by Chief Med...
Oct 05, 2017
Shooting death in Battle Creek
BATTLE CREEK (WKZO AM/FM) — Battle Creek Police are investigating the murder of a 22-year-old man on the city's south side. The victim was shot and killed just before 11pm Wednesday night in an ...
Oct 05, 2017
County Treasurer opposes change in foreclosure rules
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — Kalamazoo County Treasurer Mary Balkema wants the County Board to approve a resolution opposing State legislation that would make it easier for a homeowner to contest fo...
Oct 04, 2017
Bill to allow private police departments on table
LANSING (WKZO AM/FM) — A proposal in the Michigan Senate that would allow Hospitals, malls, universities and housing complexes to hire ready-made Police Departments from private contractors was ...
Oct 04, 2017
Democrats come out swinging against Upton
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — A group of Kalamazoo area democrats and environmentalists claim that Congressman Fred Upton's support for cuts to the EPA budget could slow efforts to clean the Kalamazo...
Oct 04, 2017
Large pool of jurors in Willis Trial
MUSKEGON, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – In two weeks Jeffrey Willis will go on trial in Muskegon. The accused serial killer is charged with the 2014 murder of Rebekah Bletsch in 2014. Willis who is being ch...
Oct 04, 2017
Sturgis woman escapes Las Vegas gunfire
LAS VEGAS, NV (WTVB) – A Sturgis native along with four of her friends survived the mass shootings in Las Vegas Sunday night. A gunman who fired from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and...
Oct 03, 2017
Elected officials express sympathy over Vegas shootings
KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — As the representatives of a city that is still recovering from its own mass shooting, Kalamazoo City Commissioners expressed their sympathy for the City of Las Vegas, an...
Oct 03, 2017
